229 days ago From Audubon Magazine   View Archived Article

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - New data collected by Audubon New York and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) during three spring and two fall seasons provides a snapshot of stopover hotspots, from Buffalo to Syracuse and into the Finger Lakes region. For three years 55 volunteers ...

230 days ago From News-Herald.com   View Archived Article

WILLOUGHBY, OHIO - Recognizing that invasive plant species are a threat that goes well beyond the backyard flower garden or the grain farmer, the U.S. EPA has awarded a $345,741 grant to the local unit of the Nature Conservancy. The comes from the Great Lakes Restorati ...

236 days ago From The Outer Banks Voice   View Archived Article

NAGS HEAD, NORTH CAROLINA - Nags Head and the Nature Conservancy have bought a 20-acre tract that was the center of a dispute last year over development in the Nags Head Woods Preserve. The land, previously owned by Andy and Laura Deel, is on high ground in the center of the .. ...

236 days ago From Mason City Globe Gazette   View Archived Article

MASON CITY, IOWA - Partners in the endeavor include The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and the Coca-Cola Co. along with Mitchell County Conservation, Mitchell County Soil and Water Conservation District and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. ...

240 days ago From World Resources Institute   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - The award will be presented by the Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute and WWF at a dinner in New York City, coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly meetings. President Yudhoyono is specifically being recognized for his ...

241 days ago From American Rivers   View Archived Article

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - Last week, The Nature Conservancy of Montana and the Nature Conservancy of Canada announced they had raised the $10 million needed to buy out existing mining rights and implement new environmental protections along the North Fork of the Flathead ...

243 days ago From Arkansas Business Online   View Archived Article

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS - A three-mile stretch of undeveloped Beaver Lake shoreline is part of a 1,954-acre acquisition - purchased for $3.91 million - completed recently by the The Nature Conservancy of Arkansas. The transaction was done at the request of the Arkansas Natura ...

245 days ago From Flathead Publishing Group   View Archived Article

COLUMBIA FALLS, MONTANA - Patterson said he gave money to the Nature Conservancy's campaign to compensate mining interests in the headwaters of the river and forever end the threat of mining and energy exploration in the Canadian Flathead. When asked why he did it, he shr ...

247 days ago From San Jose Mercury News   View Archived Article

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA - For decades, the Nature Conservancy has acquiring property in the area for long-term conservation, from oak-studded coastal prairie to tidal wetlands. Monday, it turned several parcels, including the Porter Ranch on Hall Road, to the Elkhorn Slough . ...

253 days ago From Wicked Local   View Archived Article

PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS - Oyster reefs used to be such a ubiquitous presence in Buzzards Bay that they had to be dredged to make room for boats to get through. These days the oyster population is classified as =93functionally extinct=94 in the northeast by the Nature Conserva ...

255 days ago From Bloomington Pantagraph   View Archived Article

BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS - =93Tile drainage is the holy grail,=94 said Bob Moseley, conservation director with The Nature Conservancy of Illinois that has partnered with the city, Environmental Defense Fund, and McLean County Soil and Water Conservation District to leverage .. ...

257 days ago From Care2.com   View Archived Article

REDWOOD CITY, CALIFORNIA - By Stephanie Wear, The Nature Conservancy. The news about coral reefs seems dire lately=97overfishing, pollution and climate change have some scientists picturing a world without coral reefs. It's true, the threats to reefs today are severe and g ...

258 days ago From Albany Times Union   View Archived Article

ALBANY, NEW YORK - The effort by scientists from The Nature Conservancy, who hope to protect hibernating bats by keeping a lethal fungus out of the artificial cave, will be watched by New York experts to see if is an effective defense, said Tim Tear, director of scienc ...

258 days ago From Wareham Week   View Archived Article

WAREHAM, MASSACHUSETTS - Though the idea may provoke visions of delicious oysters on the half-shell, the Nature Conservancy hopes that an uptick in natural oyster reefs will cut down on nitrogen and other pollution in the waterways, said Jon Kachmar, Southeast Massachusetts ...

260 days ago From Sacramento Bee   View Archived Article

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - BOISE, Idaho -- Officials with the Nature Conservancy say they have reached an agreement to protect more than 1,600 acres critical to protecting fish and restoring stream flows in the Pashimeroi River. The conservation group announced the deal late . ...

270 days ago From News Sentinel   View Archived Article

FORT WAYNE, INDIANA - But the fate of the white cat's paw pearly mussel, which was last known to live only in a 15-mile stretch of Fish Creek south of Hamilton Lake, helped inspire conservation group The Nature Conservancy to step in to try to preserve the mussel and ...

283 days ago From Block Island Times   View Archived Article

BLOCK ISLAND, RHODE ISLAND - After four years of talks, The Nature Conservancy and Block Island Land Trust announced a double win for conservation this week. TNC closed its first purchase in a series of three agricultural easements over Sprague Farm, and the Land Trust closed th ...

288 days ago From The Advocate   View Archived Article

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - =93It's an incredibly beautiful tree,=94 Smith, now the director of stewardship in Louisiana for The Nature Conservancy, said during a tour of Lake Ramsay Preserve, a remnant of the longleaf pine habitat in St. Tammany Parish. =93It's the pre ...

289 days ago From The Westerly Sun   View Archived Article

MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT - Sally Harold, of The Nature Conservancy points out the new floodplain meadow created by removal of Rutan Dam. Posted: Monday, August 6, 2012 1:00 pm | Updated: 12:50 pm, Mon Aug 6, 2012. Restoring a passage to the sea By Leslie Rovetti, Special to .. ...

293 days ago From Delmarva Now   View Archived Article

SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE - "By now, oyster spat (baby oysters) are beginning to attach and grow on this artificial substrate," predicts the project's coordinator Alex Wilke of The Nature Conservancy's Virginia Coast Reserve (TNCVCR). Earlier this spring staff ...