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Monday, 15 April 2013 00:00 |
By Matthew Love, Tyson Kade, and Christ Zentz – VanNess Feldman – April 11, 2013
On March 29th, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington issued a permanent injunction requiring certain State of Washington (“State”) agencies to provide and maintain fish passage for salmon at numerous culverts under State-owned roads. United States v. Washington, Case No. 70-9213 (W.D. Wash., Mar. 29, 2013). The court imposed the injunction as a remedy following its 2007 declaratory order, finding that the State has built and operates stream culverts that block fish passage to and from the Tribes’ usual and accustomed fishing places, and these culverts deprive the Tribes of the fishing rights reserved by the Stevens Treaties. The court concluded that issuing the injunction will ensure that the State acts “expeditiously” in correcting the barrier culverts, and will provide salmon with access to approximately 1,000 miles of additional stream habitat. For full article, click here. |
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Thursday, 18 April 2013 00:00 |
WA State Department of Ecology – April 15, 2013 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and Lewis and Thurston counties have certified the construction and operation of a privately owned wetland mitigation “bank” on Big Hanaford Creek, a floodplain tributary to the Skookumchuck River in the Chehalis River drainage basin. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 15 April 2013 00:00 |
Contact: Robert Gleason – USGS News Release – March 27, 2013
Dr. Ned H. Euliss, Jr., research wildlife biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, was recently granted the U.S. Department of the Interior's Meritorious Service Award—the second highest award for a DOI career employee—for his contributions to ecological science. This award recognizes Euliss' exceptional wetland research at the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC) in Jamestown, N.D., which has enhanced public knowledge of the Nation’s wetlands and been used by the Department to help manage these ecosystems. For full news release, click here. |
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013 00:00 |
NJ.com – Apr 8, 2013
"This newly created wetland caused mosquitoes to breed and frogs to gather on plaintiff's property, about which plaintiff is particularly phobic," -- Paul Marinaccio Sr. traces his fear of frogs to a childhood incident in Italy when a man holding bullfrogs chased him away after he'd wandered from the vineyard where his parents worked. Decades later, he found himself describing his phobia to a jury, calling himself "a prisoner in my own home" after runoff water from a nearby development turned his 40-acre property into wetlands and inundated it with frogs. For full story, click here. |
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Monday, 15 April 2013 00:00 |
By James Mosher -- Norwich Bulletin – April 12, 2013 State Rep. Timothy Bowles, D-Preston, said he is scheduled to meet with state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel Esty on Monday to discuss a wetlands lawsuit in which the Preston town government was ordered to pay $6,000 and the first selectman was held personally liable. The suit by property owner Kenneth Watrous and successfully argued by Groton-based lawyer Edward Moukawsher questioned whether a local land use board or the state has authority over a tidal watercourse such as Poquetanuck Cove, where Watrous built a house. Preston First Selectman Robert Congdon, former Inlands Wetlands and Watercourses Commission Chairman Kent Borner, and John Moulson, the commission’s current chairman, were ruled to be personally liable and each ordered to pay $3,000 in punitive damages. For full story, click here. |
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Friday, 12 April 2013 00:00 |
Washington Post – April 11, 2013 Delaware state officials say they are contacting property owners for permission to study wetlands on their property. The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control says it will be continuing a wetlands study this summer in the Leipsic and Little Creek watersheds. The study is designed to confirm maps of the wetlands and determine their health. For full story, click here. |
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Tuesday, 09 April 2013 00:00 |
rt.com – April 8, 2013
The ExxonMobil oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas is getting worse: more than a week after Canadian tar sands erupted from a pipeline, residents of the small town say area wetlands are becoming polluted with the crude. Activists with the group Tar Sands Blockade went to rural Arizona over the weekend to document the oil spill, and discovered that power washers used by Exxon to clean up the town has moved the crude into nearby wetlands. For full story, click here. |
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