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Getting ready for next summer - Parisi concrete crews have been working at the new Evansville West Side Park and Aquatic Center installing over 60,000 SF of concrete flatwork and over 4,000 LF of curb and gutter.
Thank you, The Colorado Sun, for covering this important restoration work!
"One technique being implemented in the Poudre River Watershed is installation of post-assisted log structures constructed from untreated lumber driven into the streambed and logs piled upstream against them.
These structures function like logjams, breaking the momentum of a stream, spreading water into the soil, and slowing the stream so sediment drops out. These faux logjams also add to stream complexity, creating riffles and pools, side channels and slack water, all of which benefit aquatic insects and native cutthroat trout."
https://lnkd.in/gr-X_2tb
Great, in-depth reporting from my colleague at Savannah Morning News & savannahnow.com, John Deem.
He captures, so well, the nuances of the long-term impacts of building a plant like the Hyundai Metaplant in Ellabell, GA. Impacts we might not think about as we drive by a large construction cite where heavy machinery clears trees and land for large storage or manufacturing facilities or even housing developments.
His latest story addresses the impact on wildlife.
https://lnkd.in/eeP9PiHx
Did you know that the UK has 18 different species of rays that can be found around our shores?
We’re excited to show off some of the incredible species spotted on the Baited Remote Underwater Videos (or BRUVs for short) sponsored by GreenTheUK business partners.
Thanks to the generous support from the following businesses, we’ve sponsored 28 underwater kelp survey sites with Blue Marine Foundation and the University of Sussex along the Sussex coastline as part of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project: Stephens Rickard, Leaders Romans Group, OMGTea Organic Matcha Green Tea, Wildscreen, Coolstays, esure Group and ARgENTUM apothecary
In March 2021 the Nearshore Trawling Byelaw 2019 was approved creating one of the largest inshore areas closed to trawling in England and the first kelp recovery project in the UK. Sir David Attenborough lent his support in the early stages providing a voice over for the campaign film and welcomed the byelaw as a “landmark decision for the management of the UK’s coastal waters.”
These survey sites are critical to monitoring the recovery of the kelp forest and changes in biodiversity since the local ban on trawling went into effect. Not only have we seen early signs of kelp recovery with kelp washing up on beaches for the first time in years, we’ve also seen an explosion in different marine species from undulate rays to smooth hound sharks, to whole schools of mackerel and black seabream returning in greater numbers.
Check out some of the incredible species we’ve spotted here:
Numerous rays and fish - https://buff.ly/49qmuBR
Smooth Hound - https://buff.ly/49uCO4n
Close up big ray - https://buff.ly/48BqoX7
Multiple cuttlefish - https://buff.ly/49S6TLf#marine#wildlife#conservation#kelp#kelpforest#bluemarine#greentheuk#stingray#shark#cuttlefish#climatechange#ukwildlife
Workshops with landholders are just as important as the rock chutes and pile fields we've constructed to reduce erosion and prevent sediment from flowing down waterways to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
Since 2017 we've delivered more than 80 workshops for graziers focusing on soil health, grazing management, erosion identification, rehydration and remediation techniques for early 'fixes'.
Graziers from 29 properties - who collectively manage more than 320,000 hectares in the Herbert catchment - have taken on board new ideas. And it's great to hear that they are often catalysts for change - in many cases from set stocking to rotational grazing through smaller paddocks, giving cattle shorter, more intense grazing periods and giving paddocks variable rest periods including some lengthy spells.
In the long term this is creating better ground cover and more diverse, nutritious pastures - and combined with fencing and alternative watering points it is also reducing topsoil losses and sediment loads on the reef. So it's a win-win.
“We work with graziers to improve the health of grassland ecosystems, of cattle and production. Fine-tuning grazing management practices is a big part of the program. Making the land more resilient is the key to reducing erosion in the Herbert catchment, which is one of the five highest contributors of fine sediment to the Great Barrier Reef.” - Terrain NRM's Duncan Buckle.
Our current workshops are part of the Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project, funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
#grazing#erosion#greatbarrierreefDepartment of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and WaterGreat Barrier Reef Foundation
Such important work for the long-term sustainability of our landscape and the health of the reef but equally for the viability and productivity of our grazing lands.
Workshops with landholders are just as important as the rock chutes and pile fields we've constructed to reduce erosion and prevent sediment from flowing down waterways to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
Since 2017 we've delivered more than 80 workshops for graziers focusing on soil health, grazing management, erosion identification, rehydration and remediation techniques for early 'fixes'.
Graziers from 29 properties - who collectively manage more than 320,000 hectares in the Herbert catchment - have taken on board new ideas. And it's great to hear that they are often catalysts for change - in many cases from set stocking to rotational grazing through smaller paddocks, giving cattle shorter, more intense grazing periods and giving paddocks variable rest periods including some lengthy spells.
In the long term this is creating better ground cover and more diverse, nutritious pastures - and combined with fencing and alternative watering points it is also reducing topsoil losses and sediment loads on the reef. So it's a win-win.
“We work with graziers to improve the health of grassland ecosystems, of cattle and production. Fine-tuning grazing management practices is a big part of the program. Making the land more resilient is the key to reducing erosion in the Herbert catchment, which is one of the five highest contributors of fine sediment to the Great Barrier Reef.” - Terrain NRM's Duncan Buckle.
Our current workshops are part of the Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project, funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
#grazing#erosion#greatbarrierreefDepartment of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and WaterGreat Barrier Reef Foundation
One of Terrain NRM’s key strategic focus areas is regenerative economy. This post is a great example of farmers changing practices combined with some strategic civil engineering that improves soil health and slowing and spreading rainfall across a farm that has a flow on impact of improving vegetation and biodiversity, farm production, farm resilience, the value of the farm asset and the health of the region’s waterways and Great Barrier Reef improves. I’d suggest this is a win, win, win plus outcome through a regenerative approach! How and where else are you seeing regenerative economic approaches being applied that are delivering multiple outcomes and benefits?
Workshops with landholders are just as important as the rock chutes and pile fields we've constructed to reduce erosion and prevent sediment from flowing down waterways to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
Since 2017 we've delivered more than 80 workshops for graziers focusing on soil health, grazing management, erosion identification, rehydration and remediation techniques for early 'fixes'.
Graziers from 29 properties - who collectively manage more than 320,000 hectares in the Herbert catchment - have taken on board new ideas. And it's great to hear that they are often catalysts for change - in many cases from set stocking to rotational grazing through smaller paddocks, giving cattle shorter, more intense grazing periods and giving paddocks variable rest periods including some lengthy spells.
In the long term this is creating better ground cover and more diverse, nutritious pastures - and combined with fencing and alternative watering points it is also reducing topsoil losses and sediment loads on the reef. So it's a win-win.
“We work with graziers to improve the health of grassland ecosystems, of cattle and production. Fine-tuning grazing management practices is a big part of the program. Making the land more resilient is the key to reducing erosion in the Herbert catchment, which is one of the five highest contributors of fine sediment to the Great Barrier Reef.” - Terrain NRM's Duncan Buckle.
Our current workshops are part of the Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project, funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
#grazing#erosion#greatbarrierreefDepartment of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and WaterGreat Barrier Reef Foundation
Partners from the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Siuslaw Watershed Council, and McKenzie River Trust are kicking off a second season of restoration at Waite Ranch on the Siuslaw River. Started in the summer of 2023, the tidal restoration project aims to return around 200 acres of estuarine wetlands to the Siuslaw River system.
In 2010, McKenzie River Trust purchased the property, which had been identified as a high conservation priority by regional partners working to address immediate threats to native Coho salmon whose numbers fell from more than 450,000 adults returning annually to spawn in the Siuslaw in the early 1900s to as few as 500 by the 1990s.
Restoring tidal access to its floodplain will create several miles of additional habitat for salmon on the site, located roughly 3 miles upstream of Florence, OR. This reconnection of the land to the river, which was cut off to support agricultural use in the 1800s, is an important step toward increasing off-channel habitat for resident fish who utilize tidal wetlands for food and cover as they transition between fresh and saltwater environments. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gT4wEwQe
