Provides numbers to call, date for the Trenton protest, and an excellent video describing what's at stake.
FEMA Flood Related Information and Assistance. Citizens should contact FEMA for general flood related assistance.
FEMA emergency number: 1-800-621-FEMA
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Hidden Elm Population May Hold Genes to Combat Dutch Elm Disease sciencedaily.com
American elms once lined the country's streets and dominated eastern forests until they succumbed by the millions after Dutch elm disease arrived in the United States in 1931.
Riparian corridors are “buffers of trees, shrubs and grass along waterways.”
Conserving streamside buffers is socially valuable, economically viable and ecologically necessary. It costs more and takes longer to restore water quality than to protect it in the first place. Modest rules to protect narrow buffers can be fair to landowners, while preserving clean water for the entire state.
By Erica Gies "Water and energy form two vital pillars that hold up our economy and our lives. Unfortunately, they are inextricably intertwined: Destabilize one and you could threaten the other."
The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands
VALUING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - TOWARD BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION–MAKING
Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies
Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy
"Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, *corridor* and unaided."
"Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, corridor and unaided."
Steven writes:The important information is that uranium should be added to the list of compounds to be tested (by a PA DEP certified lab) in preparation before the gas drilling occurs. This would apply to wells and to streams. See my article in Upper Bucks Future 2009 issuepdf
GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ASSESSMENT ... RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP IN BUCKS COUNTY, PA PDF
"The outcome of this study is consistent with a potential for deep groundwater recharge of not more than one or two inches per year; equivalent to less than 5% of annual precipitation."
Springfield Township Issues Notice of Violation to PPL sbulu.org
Tree Squad: leading a community-based initiative called 1000 Trees