Opportunity for Conservation Districts to Provide Input into Resources Conservation Act, Mixed Results for Chesapeake Bay’s Migrating Shad
Resources Conservation Act - Conservation districts have an important opportunity to provide input into the Resources Conservation Act process through upcoming listening sessions and other avenues. Click here to find out what the RCA means to districts and how you can participate. Specific topics include:
- The most important natural resource concerns on private lands today and in the coming decade
- Effectiveness of current conservation program approaches (e.g., technical assistance, cost-share, easements, compliance, research, land retirement, locally led conservation) in addressing priority resource concerns
- Alternative program approaches (e.g., environmental service markets, tax credits) to address resource issues.
From the Chesapeake Bay Journal:
MD joins mid-Atlantic states to protect, manage the ocean. A new mid-Atlantic ocean partnership addresses the region’s priority ocean issues including offshore energy, climate change, water quality, and habitat protection. Read more…
Spring shad numbers up in Susquehanna, down in Potomac. This spring’s shad runs brought remarkably mixed results-and some new concerns-in the Bay’s tributaries, with some showing increases in migrating shad, while others stayed the same or declined. Read more…
Upcoming events
Mark Your Calendar! The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts and the Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission are holding their 62nd Joint Annual Conference at the Ramada Conference Center in State College, PA, July 20-22, 2009. Click here for details!
Attention Engineers: The American Society of Civil Engineers is holding two water management conferences in 2010 and have issued a CALL FOR PAPERS.
Watershed 2010: Innovations in Watershed Management Under Land Use and Climate Change
- Where: Madison Wisconsin
- When: August 23-27, 2010
- What: The conference will highlight innovative approaches for managing water resources under climate and land use change. Topics include:
- Hydrologic measurement and modeling
- Integrated and/or adaptive water management
- Aquatic ecosystem restoration
- Risk based design
- The use of regional predictions of climate change
- Call for Papers: One-page abstract due August 12, 2009. Click for a list of topics. Submit electronically via the conference website.
2010 International Low Impact Development Conference: Redefining Water in the City
- Where: San Francisco, California
- When: April 11-14, 2010
- What: Conference will highlight new and continuing work including research, developments, and community adoption of LID throughout the United States and internationally. Objectives include:
- To continue to promote the use of LID as an effective alternative for traditional stormwater management
- To examine successful watershed management practices related to stream restoration and hydromodification
- To inform practitioners throughout the country on how to anticipate and address impediments for implementation of these techniques to accelerate change in the practice of stormwater management, including an information exchange to refine design processes, review procedures, and construction standards related to LID technologies
- To improve our collective understanding of how vegetation helps manage stormwater, intercept precipitation, expand urban greenspace, and improve urban livability
- To consider how changes in the traditional urban drainage design paradigm mesh with ideas of sustainability and green building and help create a constituency for more livable, more sustainable cities
- Call for Papers: 500 word abstract due August 12, 2009. For submission guidelines and topics click here.
