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La. offers workshops on wetland management

Mon, 20 May 2013 04:13:22 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries will offer present wetland management workshops in May and June at three locations.

Work done at ex-brownfield site on Detroit River

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:35:28 -0400

TRENTON, Michigan - Major environmental restoration work has been completed on a former industrial site along the Detroit River, officials announced Saturday.

MS company pleads for illegally filling wetlands

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:02:09 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - A Mississippi corporation has pleaded guilty to illegally filling wetlands near Bay St. Louis.

W.Va. group reviving Cheat Mt. forest, wetlands

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:06:41 -0400

DAVIS, West Virginia - A former Randolph County strip mine site is once again home to woodcock, frogs, wetlands and bogs, thanks to an ongoing restoration effort led by the non-profit Canaan Valley Institute.

Ind. plants trees, reclaims wetlands along I-69

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:17:09 -0400

OWENSBURG, Indiana - State contractors are planting thousands of trees and reclaiming previously drained southern Indiana wetlands to make up for the environmental damage caused by construction of the $3 billion Interstate 69 extension.

Project aims to restore western Lake Erie wetlands

Sun, 05 May 2013 09:11:10 -0400

TOLEDO, Ohio - A project restoring 2,500 acres into wetlands along western Lake Erie is a small but important step toward creating a new home for wildlife and cleaning water runoff from farm fields that feeds harmful algae, conservation organizations say.

MSU survey reveals interest in coastal restoration

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:29:27 -0400

HOUMA, Louisiana - A new survey Mississippi State University finds more than 60 percent of Americans are willing to pay to restore Louisiana's rapidly eroding Barataria-Terrebonne estuary.

Prime Hook conservation plan under way

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:32:26 -0400

DOVER, Delaware - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is implementing a comprehensive conservation plan for Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware.

Students study with wetland preservation veteran

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:32:37 -0400

NEW ORLEANS - Perhaps no environmental activist in coastal South Louisiana better embodies the power of one than Milton Cambre. The self-appointed guardian and keeper of 12,000 acres of the LaBranche Wetlands, and the founding father of Wetland Watchers Park in Norco, Cambre for the past 50 years has fiercely championed the reclamation of St. Charles Parish's wetlands.