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| This week in conservation December 17 - 23, 2007 |
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| Alpaca Farm Days | |||||||||||
 Mon, Dec 17, 2007Daily through Dec 23. 11 am-4 pm, Island Alpaca Company, 1 Head of the Pond Rd., Oak Bluffs. Meet the herd including new babies. Free knitting pattern. Refreshments. Donations welcomed. 508-693-5554. |
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| Funding for Habitat Management on Private Lands | |||||||||||
MassWildlife's Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) is seeking proposals from individual landowners, land trusts, sportsmen's clubs, farmland owners, and other conservation organizations for wildlife habitat management funding. To view the Request for Responses (RFR), visit the Comm-PASS website and search for document number "FEW-LIP-2008-001." Applications are due by December 21. |
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| Climate Change Update | |||||||||||
| Climate Talks Near Compromise |
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| Speech by Al Gore on the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| Wind Update | |||||||||||
| Proposed regulation change could ease Cape Wind efforts |
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| Water Update | |||||||||||
| Auditor rips state estuary program |
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| Senate Commerce Committee Passes Lautenberg Measure on Ocean Acidification |
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| Bi-Partisan Bill Would Focus Research on Acidification Threatening Oceans, Marine Life WASHINGTON, D.C. – Legislation by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D–NJ) to focus research on rising ocean acidity passed the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today. Ocean acidification harms marine life and poses serious risks to the fishing industry. http://lautenberg.senate.gov/ newsroom/record.cfm?id=288240 |
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Concerned the Vineyard will be locked out of participation in a restored federal fishery, a small group of Island commercial fishermen went to a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council last month to make their plea for some part of the future pie.
At least since 2003, and especially after hurricane Katrina hit, the White House has broadly attempted to control which climate scientists could speak with reporters, as well as editing scientists' congressional testimony on climate science and key legal opinions, according to a new report by a House committee.
BALI, Indonesia (AP) -- Delegates at the U.N. climate conference extended closed-door talks into an extra day Saturday, nearing resolution of a dispute over how far future negotiations should go in trying to cut emissions of greenhouse gases.
The road for Cape Wind Associates may get smoother if proposed regulations released yesterday by the state's Department of Environmental Protection pass muster.
State Auditor Joseph DeNucci revealed in an audit yesterday that a multimillion-dollar marine estuaries project managed by the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth was "troubled by questionable contract costs, no-bid contracts, and a potential conflict of interest."