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Cooperative Conservation: Increasing Capacity Through Community Partnerships -- Interagency Volunteer Program: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending March 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Get Outdoors Nevada

• Volunteer database increased 10 percent over last quarter to contain 3,243 records.
• Website activity increased, recording an average of 57,930 hits per month, with an average of 5,839 pages viewed per month (17 percent increase in pages viewed).
• Volunteer orientation program delivered to 30 active volunteers.
• Volunteer survey related to communication, training, and recognition complete.
• Volunteer spring training scheduled, developed, and publicized.
• Volunteers contributed 1,400 hours in the Great American Cleanup.
• National volunteer week recognition plan developed.

Interagency Science And Research: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending March 31, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Interagency Science and Research Strategy

• Completed a beta-test of a science proposal review process with the assistance of four external reviewers.
• Participated in workshop entitled “Biological Soil Crusts: Ecology and Management.
• Completed review of the interagency Chesapeake Bay Program science strategy and added this information to the Science Strategy Database.
• Completed a preliminary review of agency science delivery capabilities.

Summary Of Presentation: Climate Of Environmental Justice Conference, Michael B. Gerrard

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Michael B. Gerrard, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP, New York, NY

2 pages.

Indigenous Peoples And Environmental Justice: The Impact Of Climate Change, Rebecca Tsosie

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Rebecca Tsosie, Professor of Law, Arizona State University

1 page.

Healing Earth, Helping Neighbors: Using Brownfield Remediation Projects To Advance Environmental Justice [Outline], Willie Shepherd

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Willie Shepherd, Chairman and Co-Founder, Kamlet Shepherd & Reichert, LLP

2 pages.

"Presentation Outline"

Deadly Waiting Game: An Environmental Justice Framework For Examining Natural And Man-Made Disasters Beyond Hurricane Katrina [Abstract], Robert D. Bullard

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Robert D. Bullard, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology, Clark Atlanta University

1 page.

Action On Global Warming: Making Room For Tribal Governments In The New Kind Of Wedge Issue, Dean B. Suagee

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Dean B. Suagee, Of Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker LLP, Washington, D.C.

1 page.

Second Generation Environmental Justice: Challenges And Opportunities, Rachel D. Godsil

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Rachel D. Godsil, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School

3 pages.

Slides: Environmental Justice: Comprehensive Approach, Nicholas Targ

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Nicholas Targ, Holland & Knight, former Associate Director for Environmental Justice Integration, Office of Environmental Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

16 slides

Climate Changes And The Poorest Nations: Further Reflections On Global Inequality, Ruth Gordon

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Ruth Gordon, Professor of Law, Villanova University School of Law

3 pages.

Climate Justice: The Next Movement [Outline], Richard J. Lazarus

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Richard J. Lazarus, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

2 pages.

Creating A Roadmap For Achieving Intergenerational Environmental Justice, Clifford Rechtschaffen

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

Presenter: Clifford Rechtschaffen, Professor of Law and Director, JD Environmental Law Program; Co-Director, Environmental Law and Justice Clinic, Golden Gate University School of Law

5 pages.

Agenda: The Climate Of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock, University Of Colorado Boulder. School Of Law

The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock (March 16-17)

On March 16-17, The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock conference gathered 125 academics and practitioners from around the country to consider the pressing issues facing low-income and/or communities of color that continue to be subjected to a disproportionate share of environmental maladies.

"Some people are more equal than others when it comes to bracing ourselves for the impacts of climate change," said conference organizer Professor Maxine Burkett. "Whether it's because poor folks lived in the lowest areas of New Orleans when Katrina floodwaters rushed in, or are less able to afford the cooling bill during increasingly frequent heat waves, …

Refuge Update – March/April 2007, Volume 4, Number 2

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:
What’s Melting: Togiak Refuge Sizes Up Its Glaciers, page 3
Focus on Fish Conservation, pages 10-15
Whatever happened to…, pages 16-17
Wildlife Cooperatives, page 20

Refuge Update – March/April 2010, Volume 7, Number 2

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:

First, We Inventory by Bill O’Brian
The Legacy We Carry On By Greg Siekaniec
Straight from the Secretary
FOCUS: Maintenance
CMS Is Coming to a Web Site Near You
Protecting Wildlife, Producing Energy

Preliminary Results Of A Fecal Microbe Survey In An Eutrophic Lake, Wilgreen Lake, Madison County, Kentucky, Walter S. Borowski, Michael S. Albright

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Wilgreen Lake is a small (~14 mi²) eutrophic lake formed by damming several tributary streams to Silver Creek, Madison County, Kentucky. The lake receives runoff from industrial and urban areas (Richmond) that comprise ~10% of the total watershed area; most runoff is from cattle pasture or human developments encircling the lake. Present and past developments are on septic systems, and effluent from these systems is known qualitatively to seep into lake waters.

Our research group is currently conducting a study of the lake in order to identify major nutrient sources, and one possible tracer method is to quantitatively …

Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Designating The Northern Rocky Mountain Population Of Gray Wolf As A Distinct Population Segment And Removing This Distinct Population Segment From The Federal List Of Endangered And Threatened Wildlife; Proposed Rule

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery: Annual Reports

Under the Endangered Species Act (Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), propose to establish a distinct population segment (DPS) of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) in the Northern Rocky Mountains (NRM) of the United States. The proposed NRM DPS of the gray wolf encompasses the eastern one-third of Washington and Oregon, a small part of north-central Utah, and all of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.

We are also proposing to remove the gray wolf in the NRM DPS from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife under the Act, because threats will have been reduced or eliminated if …

Some Significant Wildlife Strikes To Civil Aircraft In The United States, January 1990–December 2006 , Sandra Wright

Other Bird Strike and Aviation Materials

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, through an interagency agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration, compiles a database of all reported wildlife strikes to U.S. civil aircraft and to foreign carriers experiencing strikes in the USA. We have compiled over 66,000 strike reports from 1,528 airports, January1990 through December 2005 (over 7,100 strikes in 2005), but estimate that this represents only about 20% of the strikes that have occurred. The following examples from the database are presented to show the serious impacts that strikes by birds or other wildlife can have on aircraft. These examples, from throughout the USA, demonstrate the …

Feather Identification Lab

Other Bird Strike and Aviation Materials

Shipping

Collecting Remains

Birdstrike Collecting Kits

Other Bird Strike and Aviation Materials

The following are suggestions for items that may be included in pre-packaged birdstrike collecting kits. The final kit contents are really up to each individual airfield depending on contacts, protocols, how much you want to spend, etc. All of the items are easy to get and relatively inexpensive. Some items may be found on lab safety or veterinary supply websites.

Factors Contributing To Dust Emissions In Clark County, Nevada Quarterly Progress Report: Period Ending January 15, 2007, Margaret N. Rees

Dust Emissions from Public Lands

• Post-doctoral scholar to commence work in next quarter
• Preliminary discussions with BLM personnel initiated

Selected Lid Projects In New England, New England Environmental Finance Center

Planning

Examples of low impact development (LID) projects in each state in New England.

Nitrogen Loading From Wastewater Treatment Plants To Upper Narragansett Bay, Donald Pryor, Emily Saarman, David Murray, Warren Prell

Narragansett Bay Collection

Increasing awareness of low-oxygen conditions in Narragansett Bay, as well as other

symptoms of eutrophication such as macroalgae accumulation, eelgrass failure, and fish

kills, has led to management actions to reduce nitrogen loads to the upper Bay

Nitrogen Loading From Wastewater Treatment Plants To Upper Narragansett Bay, Donald Pryor, Emily Saarman, David Murray, Warren Prell

Narragansett Bay Collection

Increasing awareness of low-oxygen conditions in Narragansett Bay, as well as other

symptoms of eutrophication such as macroalgae accumulation, eelgrass failure, and fish

kills, has led to management actions to reduce nitrogen loads to the upper Bay

Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus)

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery: Annual Reports

Second only to humans in adapting to climate extremes, gray wolves once ranged from coast to coast and from Alaska to Mexico in North America. They were absent from the East and the Southeast, which were occupied by red wolves (Canis rufus), and from the large deserts in the southwestern States. By the early 20th century, government-sponsored predator control programs and declines in prey brought gray wolves to near extinction in the lower 48 States.

Wolf groups, or packs, typically include a breeding pair (the alpha pair), their offspring, and other non-breeding adults. Wolves are capable of mating …

Wolf Recovery In North America

Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery: Annual Reports

Before the arrival of European settlers, wolves ranged widely across the continent, from coast to coast and from Canada to Mexico. Two species are found in North America, the gray wolf, with its various subspecies, and the red wolf, found in the southeastern United States.

Wolves play an important role as predators in the ecosystems they inhabit. They feed primarily on large mammals, such as deer and elk, removing sick and injured animals from the populations. Wolves are highly social, living in packs and hunting and raising young cooperatively.

As the country was settled, native prey species declined and the …

Newsletter Of The Wildli Fe Society Wildlife Damage Management Working Group, Interactions: Volume 13 Issue 2 Spring 2007

TWS Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Newsletter

From The Field Trapping Under Fire…..Again; Letters From Art: A Chair’s Message; Call for Papers: 23rd Vertebrate Pest Conference March 17-20, 2008 San Diego, California 22nd Vertebrate Pest Conference Proceedings Available; Calls from the Field (Or A House, Or A Farm, Or A…); Focus On the FIELD The Northeast Wildlife Damage Management Cooperative First Issue of Human-Wildlife Conflicts Now Available; Human-Wildlife Conflict in The News; The Wildlife Professional A New Public Action from Tws; Recent Wildlife Damage Management Research; The Wildlife Society Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Upcoming Meetings, Conferences and Events

Newsletter Of The Wildlife Society Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Interactions:Volume 13 Issue 1 Winter 2007

TWS Wildlife Damage Management Working Group Newsletter

Elk Que Early To Beat The Christmas Rush….; Letters From Art: A President’s Message; 12th Wildlife Damage Management Conference; Calls from the Field (Or A House, Or A Farm, Or A…); The 12th WDM Conference Needs Your Support; First Issue of Human-Wildlife Conflicts to Be Published Soon; Bio for Interactions’ New Editor: Joe Caudell; Human-Wildlife Conflict In The News; Recent Wildlife Damage Management Research; International Conference on Fertility Control For Wildlife; 12th Wildlife Damage Management Registration Form And Hotel Information; The Wildlife Society Wildlife Damage Management Working Group; Upcoming Meetings, Conferences and Events

Refuge Update – January/February 2007, Volume 4, Number 1

RefugeUpdate (USFWS-NWRS)

Table of Contents:

Rare Bee Species in South Carolina
Focus: Engaging the Next Generation
Wilderness Training
Bird Call

Demographic And Spatial Characteristics Of Feral Hogs In The Chihuahuan Desert, Texas, Roger N. Adkins, Louis A. Harveston

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Feral hogs (Sus scrofa) have recently expanded their range to include portions of the arid regions of the Chihuahuan Desert, Texas. We examined feral hog density, survival rates, range size, and habitat use in the Davis Mountains, Texas, to understand hog ecology in a desert environment. We tested the hypothesis that densities of feral hogs across Texas would be positively related to precipitation. Feral hog densities in the Chihuahuan Desert were low (0.65 individuals/km²), supporting our prediction. Annual home range sizes (100% minimum convex polygon) were also high and averaged 48.3 ± 4.4 km² and …