Climate Change Resource Center provides focused info and tools for wildland managers

The Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) is a reference Web site for resource managers and CCRC logodecisionmakers who need information and tools to address climate change in planning and project implementation. Changing climates have already catalyzed changes in environments throughout the United States, and future effects are expected to be greater. Although future scenarios are daunting, managers can do much to promote adaptation to climate change and encourage reduction of human effects on climate.

River Restoration Shortcourse: Fluvial-Geomorphic & Ecological Tools

 River Restoration: Fluvial-Geomorphic and Ecological Tools     

Inaugural Issue of "Water": An International and Interdisciplinary Scientific Open Access Journal

www.mdpi.com/journal/water/   Water Journal Logo

From the first article in the first issue: 
John Bridgeman email
School of Civil Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Abstract: That water is the world's most precious natural resource cannot be in doubt. Increasing demands for water due to growing population, increasing urbanization and industrial development exemplify its vital role in human life. Water touches us all, from the commercial private sector which either generates or uses the product potable water; through national and international government agencies (policy makers and regulators who attempt to maintain and improve our environment, whilst also making provision for the effective and safe treatment and distribution of potable water, and the collection, treatment discharge of our wastewater); to the general public whose lives depend upon the availability of sufficient quality and quantity.

28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference and the 44th Annual American Fisheries Society Cal-Neva Conference

"Fisheries Restoration and Science in a Changing Climate"

                        March 10-13, 2010, Redding Convention Center

===> www.calsalmon.org

Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region: Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty

Lloyd G. Carter's provocative article about the Westlands Water District in California's Great Valley.

USGS posts new geologic map of the US

The Shape of the Universe

The Shape of the Universe

Howard Reingold

If you are fortunate enough to share a neighborhood with a leafy elm, a gnarly oak, a soaring redwood, take another look at its silhouette against the sky. That self-similar 4-D explosion of branching branches is a clue to a cosmic riddle or two, and a key concept in fields as unrelated as vascular surgery and software design.

The Buddha knew this, and so do neurologists, database programmers, and mythologists.

Ag Sec'y Vilsack gives a speech about the Forest Service

And he talks about water and restoration. We have arrived gang.www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB 

Jamie Workman's 'Heart of Dryness' Released Today

Jamie Workman's book, Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, is being released today. It's next on my 'must read' list.

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