Communication
Partnering with Maryland Watermen in Electronic Catch Accounting Pilot
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Article While winter around the Chesapeake Bay is known for oysters and striped bass, summertime means blue crabs. If you enjoyed steamed crabs from Maryland this summer, you may have consumed crabs harvested by watermen involved in a ground-breaking test of technology to improve long-term blue crab management.
The Conservation Catalysts Network (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
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Initiative The Conservation Catalysts Network (CCN) focuses on universities, colleges and research institutions that are catalyzing large landscape conservation. Our members are pairings of academic and research institutions with conservation initiatives (for example, the pairing of the Harvard Forest and the Wildlands and Woodlands Initiative).
Website:
http://conservationcatalysts.net/ MIGA Backs Sustainable Bamboo Plantation in Nicaragua
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Article Project creates jobs, improves land, mitigates effects of climate change
REDD+: What is needed to make it work for the poor?
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Article While REDD+ is aimed at reducing emissions from forests, its effectiveness will depend on how much the benefits trickle down to those living closest to the forest. These same rural households are also best placed to provide local evidence of what works and what doesn’t, to influence decisions on REDD+ architecture at the national and international level.
US, Mexico, and Conservation Organizations Join Forces to Restore Flows to the Colorado
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Article Chandler Clay, 202-572-3312, cclay@edf.org
Addressing Water for Agriculture in the Colorado River Basin: A Project Progress Report
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Article
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Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Institute (CWI) is spearheading a U.S. Deartment of Agriculture-funded research project on water for agriculture in the Colorado River Basin (CRB).
Executive Director, The Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges, Arizona Sate University
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Job The Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges is seeking applications for an Executive Director. The Director will lead the Center for Integrated Solutions to Climate Challenges to be an internationally reputed climate adaptation center that is engaged in providing climate knowledge and service at all levels.
Building Leadership Capacity in Conservation workshop at ICCB 2013
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Training Interested in becoming a more effective conservation leader? The Society for Conservation Biology will host a 2-day "Building Leadership Capacity in Conservation" workshop at the 2013 International Congress for Conservation Biology in Baltimore. This highly interactive workshop is for 25 conservation professionals from around the world, tailored to the unique needs of conservation scientists and practitioners at any stage in their career.
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Society for Conservation Biology Community-based Conservation and a Utopic Vision in Montana
The Rocky Mountain West with its vast expanse of open spaces and abundant natural resources has always held the allure of being a place for utopic visions. It was here where the manifest destiny of a young nation unfolded (embodying the positives and negatives of the ideology of the early American nation-state) and a national culture was formed that embraced the image of the vast, natural landscape as a national icon. Europe had cathedrals. America had a utopic vision of the West.
