watersheds

#ForewordFriday: Great Lakes Water Wars

By Jada Mosley / On February 22nd, 2019
This edition of The Great Lakes Water Wars is an engrossing, essential book for readers of the first edition and new readers alike.  
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Exporting No Net Loss

By Royal Gardner / On September 6th, 2013
The concept of “no net loss” of wetlands, first officially endorsed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1990, continues to spread across the globe. The latest example is Taiwan’s national Wetland Conservation Act, enacted in July 2013 after five years of discussions. The new law adopts the objective of “no net loss” of area and function for wetlands designated as locally, nationally, or internationally important.
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Thank a National Forest Roadless Area

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On February 2nd, 2011
The next time you turn on the tap, chances are the water came from a local National Forest. National Forests provide drinking water for about 60 million Americans nationwide and about 15 percent of the nation’s freshwater runoff. This clean water is worth an estimated net value of $27 billion annually. And the cleanest of this water comes from watersheds free of roads and development.

How Do We Instill a Reverence For Place?

By Timothy Beatley / On January 16th, 2009
Perhaps because we are such Olympians at moving, at shifting and transitioning to new lives, new jobs and new houses, Americans know relatively little about the places in which they live. Much of my own work has been about the creative ideas for educating about place and region, and for deepening connections to nature and landscape. There are many possibilities, some tried, others only pondered. Part of the task I think is to make learning about community and place fun; something that you would want to do, and that would compete well with the many other life diversions available.