Tag: invasive species
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Monitoring Aquatic Weed Control Methods to Preserve, Restore, and Enhance the Tahoe Keys Lagoons
While Lake Tahoe’s crystalline azure has lasted for eons, the changes wrought by past land uses in the basin have transformed its blue from merely a color into a cause—to protect this designated Outstanding Natural Resource Water. ESA is playing a quiet but key role in support of that cause—protecting the lake’s extraordinary clarity and…
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Structured Decision Making: Synthesizing Multiple Streams of IEP Data to Inform Management
Photo: The habitat surrounding the future location of the Lookout Slough Tidal Restoration Project, located in the Cache Slough complex. Photo by Florence Low / DWR The habitat surrounding the future location of the Lookout Slough Tidal Restoration Project, located in the Cache Slough complex. Photo by Florence Low / DWR Our native species face…
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From sewage to oasis: Female duo create Johannesburg green corridor
Merging art, science and activism, two women are on a mission to save one of the city’s biggest and most polluted rivers By Kim Harrisberg JOHANNESBURG, Feb 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) A river filled with sewage, broken TVs, dead dogs and used needles or a clean, bird-luring oasis lined with indigenous plants? Most people could…
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Great Lakes Scientist says, “If We Lose The EPA, We Lose Lake Erie”
At the 8th Binational Meeting of the Lake Erie Millennium Network, 125 scientists gathered at the University of Windsor in Ontario to hear experts weigh-in on the health of the southernmost, warmest and shallowest of the Great Lakes. They presented research on everything from climate change, water quality, phosphorous, agricultural run-off, cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), hypoxia…
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The Snakes That Ate Florida: Burmese pythons
Photo: Ian Bartoszek and Katie King recapture the 50-pound sentinel snake Johnny, who has led his minders to 18 adult Burmese pythons for removal. (Gena Steffens) Bounty hunters and biologists wade deep into the Everglades to wrestle with the invasion of giant pythons threatening the state’s wetlands In the Everglades, everything still looks the same.…
