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EPA Releases Agency Plans for Adapting to a Changing Climate
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released its draft Climate Change Adaptation Implementation Plans for public review and comment. In support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan and Executive Order on Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change announced today, the Implementation Plans provide detailed information about the actions EPA plans to take across the country to help communities adapt to a changing climate.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lists Neosho Mucket as Endangered and Rabbitsfoot as Threatened
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the Neosho mucket as endangered and the Rabbitsfoot as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Both species are freshwater mussels found in river systems in the eastern half of the United States.
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Braven Beaty: The Nature Conservancy - Clinch Valley Program
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Braven Beaty discusses his work in the Appalachian region with mussels, the biological importance of the Clinch-Powell River Basin, and how the Appalachian LCC helped to preserve freshwater mussel populations.
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Downscaling Scenarios of Climate Change Project to Map Entire Appalachian LCC Region
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A DOI Southeast Climate Science Center funded project will be evaluating the latest generation of global climate models to generate scenarios of future change to climate, hydrology, and vegetation for the Southeastern U.S. as well as the entire range of the Appalachian LCC.
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Position Available - Interdisciplinary (Air and Water Program Manager) Ecologist or Physical Scientist
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This is a natural resource management position located in the Natural Resources Branch, Division of Natural and Cultural Resources at Shenandoah National Park. The Air and Water Quality Program Manager engages in the study, inventory, monitoring, restoration, and management of air resources /air quality, associated ecological components such as water quality, fisheries, vegetation and wildlife impacts in addition to associated visibility components, and tropospheric ozone.
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Front Row Seats to Climate Change
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Increasingly erratic rainfall patterns can lead to declines in southeastern frog and salamander populations, but protecting ponds can improve their plight.
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Wetlands clean water, provide homes for wildlife across the nation
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Wetlands play a crucial role in the world’s ecosystem by protecting and improving water quality, filtering surface water, storing floodwater and creating or enhancing wildlife habitat.
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Stream Restoration Challenge Kicks Off with Spring Plantings
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This spring, more than 2,000 students from across Maryland got an early start on their Earth Day contributions, planting trees to improve water quality through Governor Martin O’Malley’s Stream Restoration Challenge. The program ─ which is still accepting proposals ─ provides grants for students and groups to carry out projects to improve Chesapeake Bay water quality through service learning and environmental education activities.
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Brook Trout Restoration and Expansion
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This project will restore and improve stream and riparian habitat within a 2,357 foot project area located in the headwaters of Garth Run which was severely impacted by catastrophic flooding that occurred in 1995.
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Assessment and Restoration of Southern Appalachian Brook Trout
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This project will complete an assessment of brook trout in-stream habitat, water quality, and fish distribution information in all Jocassee Gorges streams during the first two years of the project.
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