Sentences with phrase «wetland habitat using»

Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.

Not exact matches

Various permits are also being advanced with state and federal agencies — such as water discharge, wetlands, air quality, water use and fish habitat permits and other approvals that will give them right - of - way access.

The City of Buffalo and United States Army Corps of Engineers are partnering to restore a wetland habitat on Unity Island, using sediment removed from the Buffalo River to help build it.

But the model can identify a solution that increases the area of wetland habitat with the best use of available water, labor and financial resources.»

The Central Valley's protected wetlands (federal wildlife refuges, state wildlife areas, and private lands) and certain types of agriculture (e.g. rice, alfalfa), provide nearly all of the habitat used by millions of ducks, geese, shorebirds, and other waterbirds every fall, winter, and spring.

The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.

In 2016 the Lloyd's Tercentenary Research Foundation released Coastal Wetlands and Flood Damage Reduction: Using Risk Industry - based Models to Assess Natural Defenses in the Northeastern USA (PDF, 3.4 MB), the first report from the two - year research project, The Role of Coastal Habitats in Managing Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction.

Land use changes: logging, habitat fragmentation as the suburbs move further out from city cores and new roads are built, wetlands drying up, drought / excess rain.

Improving Habitat With Art «It was great to have artists this year that understood the importance of using only natural materials and techniques that would not harm the environment of the wetlands nature preserve and help to improve the habitat for the wildlife,» Allen wrote on the project's blog.

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.