Nachusa brings large-scale prairie, bison back to Illinois
“It’s a success story of how to preserve and restore native habitats.”
The Nature Conservancy
Volunteers needed at Cascade River State Park this Saturday; The Nature Conservancy’s Highway 61 reforested program to restore first site
Volunteers are needed this Saturday, June 1, to help plant trees and protect seedlings from deer browsing on 55 acres at the entrance to Cascade River State Park, along the North Shore of Lake Superior. The restoration is the first project under The Nature Conservancy’s new Highway 61 reforested program, which is focused on replacing dying
Study: Effort to protect Mississippi River headwaters shows benefits
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The economic benefits of preserving and restoring land in the upper Mississippi River’s headwaters region nearly outweigh the costs, according to a new study. Protecting the roughly 200,000 acres would cost between $400 and $600 million, but it would yield almost $500 million in direct and indirect economic benefits. The report
Fisheries biologists look for answers, grass carp in Sandusky, Maumee rivers
Part of continuing efforts to remove invasive grass carp, assess grass carp capture techniques and increase information on grass carp populations in the two rivers.
Central Florida community works to bring back butterflies
ORLANDO, Fla. — Efforts are underway in Central Florida to restore the habitats of the monarch butterfly, crucial to helping plants grow, including many foods people eat. The iconic orange and black insect is one of nature’s key pollinators. Environmentalists say its decline, which they blame in part on climate change, threatens the ecological health
Timber harvest project to benefit ‘brook trout heaven’
MADISON, Wis. — An environmental organization and the U.S. Forest Service are working together to harvest timber in northern Wisconsin. The 2014 Farm Bill has allowed the two groups to enter into a stewardship agreement, Wisconsin Public Radio reported. The Nature Conservancy will hire loggers, sell timber and use the proceeds for projects the Forest
Program seeks to measure success of Great Lakes protections
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A program intended to monitor the effectiveness of Great Lakes protection efforts has established goals and ways to measure progress toward achieving them. The Blue Accounting Initiative grew out of a 2013 conference of governors and premiers from the region’s states and Canadian provinces. They agreed a system was needed to
Nuisance walleyes? In Colorado, species’ threat to protected pikeminnow draws concern
Hungry non-native species proving to be a setback to expectations that the pikeminnow could be removed from the endangered species list.
In Montana, effort would benefit grassland birds, greater sage grouse
A new, voluntary wildlife conservation opportunity designed with Montana ranchers in mind is now open for public comment, and the benefits to five species of birds in need could be significant, according to a news release from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. According to the release, interested landowners will receive regulatory certainty for the next
