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Biden-Harris Administration provides $28 million for restoration, conservation, projects across America

The Bureau of Land Management announced $28 million in investments from the Inflation Reduction Act for six large-scale partnerships with national organizations, states, and the Navajo Nation to support restoration and conservation on public lands.

Ecology awards $63 million to reduce flooding, protect communities, farms, restore habitat

The Washington Department of Ecology is awarding $63 million to 12 recipients including tribes, counties, and conservation groups as part of a program to designed to transform how floodplains in the state’s major river basins are managed. 

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Invasive species are costing the global economy billions, study finds

Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-ranging scientific report has found. 

Forest restoration thinning accelerates development of old‐growth characteristics in the coastal Pacific Northwest, USA

A century of industrial‐scale management transformed forest lands across the Pacific Northwest, including ancient forests with complex structure and diverse habitats to young forests with simple structure and few species. There are now calls to restore ecosystem integrity and resilience.

University of Texas to open $10 million biodiversity research station in Dripping Springs

University of Texas students will soon have a new space to do ecological and natural sciences research after the school announced it will open a $10 million field station in Dripping Springs. The 340-acre field site will become another in the university’s network of field stations meant to help advance biodiversity research.

In Other News

Typification of the North American species of Trillium subg. Trillium (Melanthiaceae: Parideae)

New Legislation Would Establish United States Department of Agriculture Label for Pollinator-Safe Plants

Assessing spatial and temporal variation in obligate resprouting, obligate seeding, and facultative seeding shrub species in California’s Mediterranean-type climate region

Principles for climate resilience are prevalent in marine protected area management plans

Drought and temperature stresses impact pollen production and autonomous selfing in a California wildflower, Collinsia heterophylla

Drivers of coral mortality in non-acute disturbance periods

The Dynamic Nature of Wrack: An Investigation into Wrack Movement and Impacts on Coastal Marshes Using sUAS (Small unmanned aircraft system)

A multi-ecosystem prioritization framework to balance competing habitat conservation needs of multiple species in decline

Seventy questions of importance to the conservation of the North Central grasslands of the United States in a changing climate

Forest thinning and prescribed burning treatments reduce wildfire severity and buffer the impacts of severe fire weather

Silent Plains: With a history of neglect, grasslands have become the forgotten ecosystem

Amid Industrial Development Threats to Lands, Major Opportunities to Support Indigenous Stewardship

Louisiana’s Most Ambitious Coastal Restoration Project Finally Takes Off

Hawaii’s endangered plant species face a long road to recovery after wildfires

The Nature Conservancy Partners with The Conservation Fund and Orsted to Protect and Restore Native Tallgrass Prairie Near Sunflower Wind Farm

Court Petition Seeks Reversal of Water Diversion Threatening Utah’s Green River

A new generation preserves tribal land and culture in America’s national parks

Natural Areas Stewardship Grants to cover work in Woodford and McLean counties

Global Biodiversity Framework Fund: New Fund Launched to Deliver on United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) Goals

National Science Foundation awards $925,711 to study effects of climate warming on biodiversity

Mike Reed honored for decades of dedication to native wildlife conservation

Native nations and University of California scientists join together in climate fight

Pillar Coral Proposed for Increased Endangered Species Act Protection

Rare dwarf willow plant (Salix herbacea) found on Algonquin summit

Forest Preserve's 'Buzz' Nature Show Tours Midewin In Two-Part Episode

The Environmental Protection Agency removes federal protections for most of the country's wetlands

USDA Forest Service announces landscape scale investments to restore forests across tribal, state, and privately managed lands

A return to the past: Monument Mountain set to revert back to Mohican stewardship

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe One Step Closer to Land Restoration With Public Map Release

President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda Supports Watershed Conservation and Resilience in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Grant Award Leads To Historic Acquisition By California’s First Black-Led Land Conservation Organization

California launches online tool to track wildfire resilience projects

Federal grant funds stream and wetland work

State climate grant will fund Indigenous land reclamation, conservation

Restoring the San Luis Valley: Biologists call for sustainable solutions to wetland decline

A Pitt Momentum Funds grant is supporting research on land stewardship in Maui

San Diego State University Partners with Tribal Communities to Build Climate Resilience in Southern California

New research highlights opportunities to protect carbon and communities from forest fires

Working towards better recommendations for how biodiversity may be leveraged to promote delivery of ecosystem services

Funding Opportunities

Federal Fire Science Funding Opportunities

Deadline: Sept. 28, 2023

Applications Being Accepted for 2024 Keep Maryland Beautiful Grants

Deadline: Nov. 15, 2023

Coastal Habitat Restoration and Resilience Grants for Tribes and Underserved Communities

Deadline: Dec. 19, 2023

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