Posts for tag "restoration"
From Source to Sea: Monitoring and Protecting Santa Barbara’s Hidden Creeks
The city of Santa Barbara, California, is known as the “American Riviera,” sporting a sandy coastline, warm and sunny climate, and classic Spanish Architecture. Tucked in between the Pacific Ocean to the south and the Santa Ynez...
- Posted January 5, 2026
Chesapeake Bay Sees Largest Oyster Reef Restoration in the World Completed
The largest oyster reef restoration in the world was recently completed in the United States’ largest estuary: the Chesapeake Bay. The project is the result of a 10-year, over $100 million commitment from local, state, and federal...
- Posted December 24, 2025
Monitoring Northern Idaho Watersheds Helps Keep Them Wild and Pristine
Northern Idaho is a land sparse with people, but bountiful with lakes, forests, and mountains. Up in the Northern Rocky Mountains, countless streams and rivers slice through the landscape, cascading from peaks to the tranquil valleys below....
- Posted October 22, 2025
Orange Stream Dreams: Monitoring Acid Mine Drainage and Watershed Health
Monitoring data shows the progress made by scientists in repairing damage caused by acid mine drainage in Ohio’s Raccoon Creek.
- Posted July 27, 2022
Anguish of the Amazon: Climate Tipping Points and the Loss of Rainforest Resilience
“Our goal is to quantify the movement towards a tipping point, measured as a loss of resilience in the system. Resilience is essentially how quickly a system recovers from perturbations, in this case droughts for example.”
- Posted June 2, 2022
Everglades Restoration: A Story of Wetlands and Water
Everglades restoration efforts aim to restore historical hydrology, providing relief to stressed peatlands.
- Posted September 23, 2020
Lessons Learned from 35 Years of AOC Restoration
For thirty five years, Great Lakes communities have been restoring polluted areas, learning and reaping the economic benefits.
- Posted June 24, 2020
Great Lakes Region Gets Big Conservation Boost From Ducks Unlimited
Protecting, enhancing and restoring wetlands in the Great Lakes area, Ducks Unlimited has worked tirelessly to save thousands of vulnerable acres.
- Posted March 1, 2019
Ducks Unlimited Works Hard to Conserve and Restore North Atlantic Wildlife Habitat
Saving ducks is just the beginning of the extensive conservation efforts of Ducks Unlimited, an organization actively saving and restoring wetlands in large regions of the U.S.
- Posted February 25, 2019
The “Duck Factories” of the Prairie Pothole Regions
Ducks Unlimited is expanding their Living Lakes Initiative, improving water quality, and restoring the “duck factories” of the prairie pothole habitat.
- Posted November 26, 2018
Improving Headwaters Near the Chesapeake Bay
Volunteer water monitoring efforts lead to a grant-funded restoration project in Spa Creek, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.
- Posted December 22, 2017
