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Framing wetlands as a flooding solution won bipartisan support in Wisconsin. Could it work elsewhere?
Today, the Marengo River represents a new kind of solution. Following the record floods, state leaders invested in opening up ...
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Linn County Conservation eyes Cedar Rapids schools’ land for wetlands project
Officials are hopeful that a wetlands restoration project can help reduce erosion and improve water quality near Morgan Creek ...
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Wetlands Australia 31: Coastal wetlands among the most carbon rich of all habitats
Based on our extensive survey we estimated that the coastal wetlands of the South East Queensland catchments (17, 792 ha of wetlands) house approximately 4,100,000–5,200,000 tonnes of sediment carbon, ...
The Bellingham Herald22d
Male inmate at Whatcom County jail dies at facility; cause of death still undetermined
Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office vehicle stock image. Rachel Showalter The Bellingham Herald An inmate at the Whatcom County jail in Bellingham died while in custody early Thursday morning ...
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Door County Land Trust acquires wetland in Northern Door, giving it almost 10,000 acres
The Door Peninsula Coastal Wetlands Site includes a major section of the eastern Lake Michigan shoreline in northern Door County ... including trail maps, donations or memberships, visit ...
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The City of Bellingham’s Maps and Geographic Information Services Guide an Informed Public
For the past two decades, the City of Bellingham has offered Maps and GIS (Geographic Information ... of three neighborhoods: South Hill, Whatcom, and Sehome. So, with that grant money, we were ...
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Whatcom County fires health department head; she dubs it a ‘wrongful termination’
Whatcom County health department director Erika Lautenbach was fired on Wednesday, March 19, after abruptly being put on leave about two weeks earlier. Lautenbach told Cascadia Daily News that she was ...
The Bellingham Herald23d
Whatcom County health director who guided community through pandemic has been ousted
Erika Lautenbach, who guided Whatcom County through the COVID-19 pandemic and pivoted to address the fentanyl crisis, rising homelessness and direct funds for new child-care programs, has left her ...
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Supreme Court stripped wetland protections, but this SC town won't let developers eat away more
Georgetown County’s comprehensive plan includes passing a wetland protection ordinance. Until then, wetlands around the state will be left vulnerable to developers seeking to capitalize on the ...
Eastern Shore Post24d
Accomack County Wetlands Board, Public Hearing, March 27
The Eastern Shore Post is the only locally owned newspaper on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It is published each Friday and 12,000 copies are distributed free to readers at hundreds of locations from ...
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