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Thursday, February 19, 2009

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$30 Million in New Federal Stimulus Bill Goes to Calif. Wetland Restoration Projects through the Coastal Conservancy

excerpted from http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2009/san-jose-mercury-news-02-12-2009.html

2/12/2009--The conservancy's wish list included five major ongoing wetlands restoration projects totaling nearly 4,000 acres, said civil engineer Steve Ritchie, a Coastal Conservancy staff member who helped draw it up. And the federal Army Corps of Engineers included all five projects on its own list of possible ways to spend stimulus money.

The projects, which range from Napa County to Silicon Valley, involve moving levees, creating islands and converting former industrial salt ponds back to marshes. Each could begin by year's end and would benefit dozens of species, including salmon, steelhead trout, ducks, egrets, and yes, the endangered mouse, Ritchie said...

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