By Tim Hrenchir THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The estimated price tag for restoring the Kansas River levee in Topeka has risen from $17 million to $23.5 million. Eric Lynn, Topeka levees project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas City, Mo., shared the latter...
By Tim Hrenchir THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL The estimated price tag for restoring the Kansas River levee in Topeka has risen from $17 million to $23.5 million. Eric Lynn, Topeka levees project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas City, Mo., shared the latter...
To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Tony Iallonardo of the National Audubon Society, +1-202- 861-2242 x 3042, tiallonardo@audubon.org Audubon Priority Enacted Into LawWASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than five years in the making, the Water Resources Development Act WRDA was enacted into law by a staggering margin in Congress, well over the...
WASHINGTON MCT -- President Bush vetoed a $23 billion water construction bill Friday, and Congress promptly scheduled votes next week that are expected to override his action. Bush called the measure "pork-barrel" legislation that makes promises to Americans that can't be kept. Missouri and Illinois members...
MOOSE, Wyoming -- Office of the First Lady Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitors Center Grand Teton National Park Moose, Wyoming 2:15 P.M. MDT MRS. BUSH: Thank you all. Thank you very much. Thanks, everyone. Thanks for coming out today. Thanks so much, and thank you,...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A New Orleans jazz museum, restoration in Florida's Everglades and a new visitor center at Yellowstone's Old Faithful are among projects the Bush administration will announce today as part of a plan to spiff up the national parks before the system's 100th anniversary in 2016. ...
As the Democrats prepare to take control of Congress and the state Legislature reconvenes, local environmental groups are hoping that a fresh beginning will translate into help for underfunded projects. The Peninsula Open Space Trust is hoping the power shift in Congress means the federal government will...
As the Democrats prepare to take control of Congress and the state Legislature reconvenes, environmental groups hope a fresh beginning will translate into help for underfunded projects. The Peninsula Open Space Trust is hoping the power shift in Congress means the federal government will finally begin the...
Conservation group leaders criticized an interim report to Congress released Friday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that identified closing the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet to all navigation as the best option, but stopped short of providing a full plan for restoration while putting off a final decision until...
Like last year, President Bush's FY 2007 budget proposal for the Forest Service suggests bad news for programs that support forest restoration through collaborative efforts between the agency and communities. Many programs AMERICAN FORESTS and our community-based forestry partners consider priorities are proposed for cuts or elimination. Ironically, many...
The most significant--and much anticipated--forestry legislation of 2005 emerged late in the year as House and Senate members introduced bills on forest restoration or recovery following significant natural disturbances, such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and insect or disease outbreaks. The introduction of three bills in October and November kicked...
DULUTH, Minn., July 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A national and regional coalition of restoration-minded groups today warned that the forthcoming plan from President Bush's Great Lakes task force would languish without sufficient funding from the administration, Congress, and state governments. "This plan is a good first step toward comprehensive...
Corps commander Lt. Gen. Carl Strock has approved a Chief of Engineers report that recommends proceeding with the restoration of the Louisiana Coastal Area. On behalf of the Corps, Strock also signed a partnering agreement Jan. 31 with Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco D for restoring the...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Chesapeake Bay region government leaders have endorsed the concept of a regional financing authority charged with distributing and prioritizing restoration funds across the six state Chesapeake Bay watershed and say they will lobby Congress for more money to clean up the imperiled ecosystem. The...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released for public review and comment its final report and programmatic environmental impact statement on the Louisiana Coastal Area LCA Ecosystem Restoration Study. After the comment period ends on December 6, the Chief of Engineers report will...
Chapman, Michael Indian Country Today Lakota Times 08-11-2004 On Dec. 22, 2003 the Menominee Indian Tribe celebrated the 30th anniversary of President Nixon's signing of the Menominee Restoration Act, which re-granted the tribe federal recognition nearly 20 years after Congress terminated...
NEW MEXICO -- The Zuni tribe and the Department of the Interior completed on July 8 the final signing of a water rights agreement ratified by Congress in June 2003. The Zuni Indian Tribe Water Rights Settlement Agreement resolves an Arizona dispute over the water in the...
Congressional action on the FY 2005 Interior Appropriations bill--which funds federal land-management agencies like the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management--has disappeared into the messy, election-year federal budget process. That's business as usual; federal policy action tends to be slow in presidential election years, and it's proving true for...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Today, another milestone was reached in the journey to restore America's Everglades with the signing of an agreement to provide an independent scientific review panel for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan CERP. The review will be accomplished by the National Academy of Sciences...
By Dave Schleck, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 15--When it comes to Chesapeake Bay funding, optimism is a fleeting concept. In December, the governors of Virginia and other Chesapeake Bay states promised to seek...
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