The Wisconsin NWTF State Chapter recently met in Prairie du Chien to review Hunting Heritage Super Fund project proposals for 2024 funding awards.
South Dakota’s Second Century Habitat Fund (SCHF) in partnership with South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks (GFP), is increasing awareness of devastating impacts of winter’s storms to wildlife across South Dakota. These efforts include raising financial resources to help mitigate these effects.
Thanks to a Wyoming family that successfully worked with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 634 acres of important elk habitat are now permanently protected in the southeast part of the state.
Ducks Unlimited (DU) was recently awarded a $1.5 million North American Wetlands Conservation Act grant to support restoration work in the Chenier Plain Initiative Area of the Gulf Coast Joint Venture. The restoration work will take place on McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge and J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area.
The FWC is transplanting more than 150,000 aquatic plants on Lake Istokpoga, a 28,000-acre natural lake in Highlands County, to help restore this popular shallow sportfishing lake.
A new project to restore Bahamian mangrove forests destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in 2019 has been launched by Bonefish & Tarpon Trust (BTT) and its partners. Together, they seek to transplant up to 100,000 mangroves in the hardest hit areas with the help of Bahamian fishing guides, students and other volunteers.
More than 2,100 acres of vital wildlife habitat in northern Nevada is now permanently protected after the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation worked closely with several partners and a family that values conservation.
The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation permanently protected 158 acres of prime elk habitat in the heart of Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. The transaction also improves access for hunters and others to approximately 520 acres of adjacent public land.
The report looks at significant issues that affected the Great Lakes and Michigan’s residents in 2019. It also recognizes accomplishments in protecting and restoring water resources for public use, recreation, fish and wildlife, and commerce.
The group screened over 2,160 submitted ideas based on the Trustee Council’s Programmatic Restoration Plan and the focus areas identified in the request for project ideas to select those that will work best for habitat, wildlife and fisheries as well as recreational anglers.
On July 7, the Coastal Conservation Association-Maryland Chapter received 60 reef balls constructed by union apprentices in Gloucester City, New Jersey. The reef balls will be placed in the Chesapeake Bay to enhance critical fisheries habitat.
Tune in to the public meeting on restoration of Alabama's barrier island restoration efforts today at 3 p.m. CST.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is hosting the fourth meeting of the Blue-Green Algae Task Force, which will play an important role in expediting water quality improvements in the next five years.
To prevent flooding on nearby roads and private property, Vermont Fish & Wildlife staff have installed 11 water control devices on beaver dams this year throughout Vermont.
NOAA is working with state partners on living shoreline projects in the Gulf of Mexico—restoring and creating resilient coastal habitats and communities damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
While the organization says it “commends the goal” of the 2019 Proposed Revised Definition for Waters of the United States (WOTUS) as it applies to the Clean Water Act, Ducks Unlimited says it is “deeply concerned” that the proposed revision and accompanying analysis are not “consistent with existing science."
Planting a perennial summer fruit plot of mulberries from Chestnut Hill Outdoors is a great way to fill potential nutritional gaps that are occurring right now. Mulberries are the very first soft mast shrub to fruit in spring, providing ripe fruit as early as April and May in the deep south and early June further north.
Concern for the habitat that supports about 80 percent of the world’s redhead ducks has led Ducks Unlimited de México (DUMAC) and the University of Tamaulipas’ (UT) Institute of Applied Ecology to launch a partnership to better understand the status of seagrasses in the Laguna Madre.
Thanks to a conservation-minded landowner and a key state funding program, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation joined Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to permanently protect 2,677 acres of vital elk habitat in northwest Colorado.