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Coast Redwood Forests in a Changing California: A Symposium for Scientists and Managers

 AnnouncingA Call for Papers and Posters 

Water related conferences and calls for papers

 The Water Quality Information Center's listing of water-related conferences and calls for papers was updated today. The listing is available at

http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/meetings.shtml

Child survival is the new green

"Required viewing" for those who want to know about the world, now and what it can become. Click the post title to view. 

 

Water, Volume 2, Issue 2 published. Open Access Journal.

Water, Open Access Journal Published Online
Volume 2, Issue 2 (June 2010), Pages 120-320 at
http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/2/2/

Table of Contents:

Frederick A. Armah, David O. Yawson, Genesis T. Yengoh, Justice O. Odoi
and Ernest K. A. Afrifa

Water for People Africa needs a regional manager

 We have recently advertised this position at Water for People, and are looking for someone with energy and enthusiasm to drive our work forward.

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/   

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

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 anddecisionmakers 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 effe

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

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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