President Obama’s Earth Day Focus: Climate Change

ObamaApril 22, 2015, ens-newswire.com | “Climate change is the greatest threat that faces humans today, and as a nation, the United States must ‘act before it is too late,’ declared President Barack Obama in his 2015 Earth Day Proclamation. ‘The United States is committed to our role as a global leader in the fight against climate change,’ he proclaimed.”

President Obama’s Earth Day Focus: Climate Change
WASHINGTON, DC, April 22, 2015 (ENS) – Climate change is the greatest threat that faces humans today, and as a nation, the United States must “act before it is too late,” declared President Barack Obama in his 2015 Earth Day Proclamation. Visiting the Everglades today, Obama said, “Climate change can no longer be denied.”

Six Environmentalists Each Win $175,000 Goldman Prize

winnersApril 20, 2015, ens-newswire.com | “The activists honored with the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony Monday evening have protected the planet by shutting down a lead smelter, blocking dam construction, stopping a proposed gold and copper mine, and safeguarding fisheries.”

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Six Environmentalists Each Win $175,000 Goldman Prize SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 20, 2015 (ENS) – The activists honored with the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize at a ceremony Monday evening have protected the planet by shutting down a lead smelter, blocking dam construction, stopping a proposed gold and copper mine, and safeguarding fisheries. – Six Environmentalists Each Win $175,000 Goldman Prize | ENS

A historic move in the battle to save tropical rainforests

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April 1, 2015, www.theguardian.com | “This week a further historic step is taken in the battle to hang on the world’s remaining tropical rainforests. It is unlikely to make too many headlines, but on Friday two countries will take forward the kind of arrangement that many have talked about but few have had the boldness to actually do.  Guyana and Norway’s leadership is seen in the second stage of a ground-breaking deal through which one (Norway) makes annual payments to the other (Guyana) to keep its forests.”

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Norway commits to saving our rainforests!
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Logging Industry Fails Again to Strip Threatened Seabird of Protections

'WIN! Court upholds protections for the endangered marbled murrelet and its nesting habitat, coastal old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. http://ejus.tc/1GJ7XOe

This is the fifth time the timber industry has tried to challenge federal endangered species protections to gain access to logging the last and most mature old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, and been rejected. Maybe this time they’ll realize that protecting biological treasures of old growth forests is a priority. 

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March 2, 2015, earthjustice.org | “The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday rejected yet another attempt by the timber industry to remove federal endangered species protections from the marbled murrelet, a unique coastal bird found in the Pacific Northwest. The appeal was the timber industry’s fifth attempt in the past decade to eliminate protections for the old-growth forests that marbled murrelets call home, despite undisputed scientific evidence which has shown that murrelets are continuing to disappear from the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.”

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“EARTHJUSTICE DOES IT AGAIN….OLD GROWTH FORESTS AND MARBLED MURRELET PROTECTED IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
WIN! Court upholds protections for the endangered marbled murrelet and its nesting habitat, coastal old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. http://ejus.tc/1GJ7XOe
This is the fifth time the timber industry has tried to challenge federal endangered species protections to gain access to logging the last and most mature old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, and been rejected. Maybe this time they’ll realize that protecting biological treasures of old growth forests is a priority.
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  • Robert BrothersHmmm, which year is this? The first time Earthjustice helped us get solid protection for Marbled Murrelets and Ancient Forests was with the lawsuits leading to the Northwest Forest Plan of 1994.

    “Eternal Vigilance.” — Brock Evans, president, Endangered Species Coalition.”
  • Olivia EllisGood news, indeed. Wish Earthjustice could save our old growth forests in the George Washington National Park. It is being sold off in million acre parcels and offered free to fracking freaks at Dominion Power, somebody giving them permission to install 42 inch pipelines across the entire Appalachian Range, including all the headwaters to the midatlantic population! Talk about hard-to-cure-addictions. And criminals running loose!”

Colombia heads plan to create ‘ecological corridor’ and establish the world’s largest protected area

February 23, 2015, eyeonlatinamerica.wordpress.com | “Colombia has announced plans to lead a project that would see the creation of the world’s largest ‘ecological corridor’ across northern South America as part of the region’s contribution to the global fight against climate change. The reserve, which was proposed last week by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, would cover some 135 million hectares (1.35m km²), linking the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean via the northern Amazon Rainforest. It would become the largest protected area in the world, a title currently held by the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, which covers 1.27m km².”

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Trees Planted by Ruch Elem. Students

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February 12, 2015, www.kdrv.com | “Eighth graders in Ruch are taking learning outside the classroom. The students from Ruch Elementary planted trees near Lone Pine Creek in Medford.  The group partnered with the Lomakatsi Restoration Project to learn about the area. Organizers say the nearly 80 trees planted will help shade the fish bearing stream. The project was created to help students engage in hands-on outdoor activities.”

8th Graders Plant 80 Trees & Shrubs along Lone Pine Creek, Medford, OR
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“Lomakatsi had a great time out at Lone Pine Creek in Medford this week leading students from Ruch Community School in hands-on riparian restoration. A total of 80 native trees and shrubs were planted along the creek, including ponderosa pine, Oregon ash, Oregon grape, incense cedar and big leaf maple, to provide habitat for fish and wildlife and improve water quality. The students also helped remove invasive parrot feather from the creek with guidance by a representative from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife…”
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Grant will help restore ‘legacy’ oak habitat in Southern Oregon and Northern California

Marko Bey, executive director of the Ashland-based Lomakatsi Restoration Project, checks out a large oak tree in the Colestin Valley. Mail Tribune / Jamie Lusch

January 16, 2015, www.mailtribune.com | “New grant will help Lomakatsi restore 3,000 acres of ‘legacy’ oak habitat.  For the vast majority of its 400-plus years, a mammoth black oak rising from a hill outside of the Colestin Valley has been a vibrant giver of life.  Oak titmice would nest in its cavities while everything from black-tailed deer, woodpeckers and even Native Americans feasted on its bountiful acorn crop, but 60 years of bad neighbors have inflicted a heavy price.”

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 GREEN JOBS
“We’re unearthing these treasures buried in here and bringing them back to life.” Read about how federal funding secured by Lomakatsi and our partners will support ongoing efforts to protect large, old oak trees and restore oak woodland habitat in Southern Oregon and Northern California.
For the vast majority of its 400-plus years, a mammoth black oak rising from a hill outside of the Colestin Valley has been a vibrant giver of life.
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ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION WITH THE PIT RIVER TRIBAL WORKFORCE

During the retreat, Lomakatsi’s staff and Board of Directors had an opportunity to visit with members of the Pit River Tribal workforce at the Hat Creek Restoration Project. In partnership with the Pit River Tribe and California Trout, Lomakatsi employed eight Pit River Tribal members during a 9-week ecosystem restoration workforce training intensive as part of the project.

January 15, 2015, www.facebook.com | “Lomakatsi Restoration Project Board members and staff met with Pit River Tribal Workforce members at the Hat Creek Riparian Restoration Project near Burney, CA.”

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ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION WITH THE PIT RIVER TRIBAL WORKFORCE
Lomakatsi Restoration Project Board members and staff met with Pit River Tribal Workforce members at the Hat Creek Riparian Restoration Project near Burney, CA.
It was great seeing how happy these young people were to be doing restoration work, and how glad this made the tribal elders who were helping out.
One of the elders told us that the original name for the Hat Creek area is YahNEEnah AHTwam — Mouse Valley.
That’s me in the center, leaning on my other two legs
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  • Robert Brothers ~ here’s some of the restoration happening . . . willow planting

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Seeding Project Aims to Jumpstart Crucial Habitat

NDOW sagebrush seedingJanuary 9, 2015, m.elkodaily.com | “The 2013 Spring Peak Fire burned nearly 14,230 acres of crucial wildlife habitat. A majority of the area burned is designated as Preliminary Priority Habitat for sage grouse. This habitat represented high quality sage-grouse and winter mule deer habitat with a majority consisting of productive sagebrush, bitterbrush and perennial grass cover.”

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ELKO — The 2013 Spring Peak Fire burned nearly 14,230 acres of crucial wildlife habitat.
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New Study: The Economic Benefits of Our Outdoor Adventures

New Study: The Economic Benefits of Our Outdoor Adventures January 8, 2015, www.wta.org | “Joy. Inspiration. Family. Fun. Fitness.  Those may be the reasons you hit Washington’s trails, but your outdoor adventures have serious benefits for the state, too. A new study out today shows that outdoor recreation is a vital economic driver in Washington, generating $21.6 billion a year and almost 200,000 jobs (more than either employers in information technology or the aerospace industry).”

“A new study out today shows that outdoor recreation is a vital economic driver in Washington, generating $21.6 billion a year and almost 200,000 jobs (more than either employers in information technology or the aerospace industry).”
Your outdoor adventures have serious benefits for the state, too. A new study out today shows that outdoor recreation is a vital economic driver in Washington,…
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