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Discovery endangers Salton Sea efforts
SALTON SEA, Calif. - Scientists have uncovered a distressing secret about the lakebed of the Salton Sea: Portions of it are covered with a 50-foot-thick layer of silt the consistency of peanut butter.
That revelation is particularly troubling for California's largest lake, a place of promise and despair that has endured three decades of scientific study and political haggling.
The latest findings place in jeopardy a proposal by state and federal agencies to build an 8 1/2 -mile dike across the desolate and smelly lake to stave off ecological disaster. Salton Sea Authority officials say the costs of that plan could increase 200 percent, to $3 billion.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.saltan04dec04,0,913150.story
Good news for migrant waders and waterfowl from New Hampshire.
The Audubon Society has designated some of the seacoast's hottest growth spots as important bird areas, including Great Bay and the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/338/north/More_room_to_roam_for_seacoast_birds+.shtm
Bird life 'helped by farmers'
The average British farmer spends 11 hours and £183 a month protecting wildlife habitats.
And the findings of a Government report suggests that their efforts have resulted in a stabilising of the numbers of British farmland and wild birds, says the NFU.
The arrest of the decline in bird species announced in a report by Defra is a testament to the efforts of the thousands of farmers who are implementing environmental schemes and farming practices.
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/...fm?objectid=13689267&method=full&siteid=50081
Record Golden Plover Numbers
Record numbers of Golden Plovers have arrived at the West Sedgemoor Nature Reserve near Langport. Wardens at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) say more than 17,000 of the wading birds have arrived in the last few days. There had been concerns that the dry summer and mild weather over northern Europe might discourage the winter visitors. But the recent heavy rain has done much to attract the bird to the levels and moors said an RSPB spokesman.
Shorts
UK birder makes huge counts in the US! http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/health/7407925.htm
Getting back to nature Months after being rescued from an oil pit in Alaska, a tundra swan is returned to her own kind in Maryland. http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.swan04dec04,0,2928433.story
River clean up has swans in a flap Swan family reunited after workers cut off female. http://www.thecomet.net/archived/2003/wk47_2003/news/asp/swans.asp
......and I lost a story about a bounty being placed on the killer of a Bald Eagle. Will see if I can find it again!
Is this the sort of news feed you all want?
Discovery endangers Salton Sea efforts
SALTON SEA, Calif. - Scientists have uncovered a distressing secret about the lakebed of the Salton Sea: Portions of it are covered with a 50-foot-thick layer of silt the consistency of peanut butter.
That revelation is particularly troubling for California's largest lake, a place of promise and despair that has endured three decades of scientific study and political haggling.
The latest findings place in jeopardy a proposal by state and federal agencies to build an 8 1/2 -mile dike across the desolate and smelly lake to stave off ecological disaster. Salton Sea Authority officials say the costs of that plan could increase 200 percent, to $3 billion.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.saltan04dec04,0,913150.story
Good news for migrant waders and waterfowl from New Hampshire.
The Audubon Society has designated some of the seacoast's hottest growth spots as important bird areas, including Great Bay and the Hampton-Seabrook Estuary.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/338/north/More_room_to_roam_for_seacoast_birds+.shtm
Bird life 'helped by farmers'
The average British farmer spends 11 hours and £183 a month protecting wildlife habitats.
And the findings of a Government report suggests that their efforts have resulted in a stabilising of the numbers of British farmland and wild birds, says the NFU.
The arrest of the decline in bird species announced in a report by Defra is a testament to the efforts of the thousands of farmers who are implementing environmental schemes and farming practices.
http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/...fm?objectid=13689267&method=full&siteid=50081
Record Golden Plover Numbers
Record numbers of Golden Plovers have arrived at the West Sedgemoor Nature Reserve near Langport. Wardens at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) say more than 17,000 of the wading birds have arrived in the last few days. There had been concerns that the dry summer and mild weather over northern Europe might discourage the winter visitors. But the recent heavy rain has done much to attract the bird to the levels and moors said an RSPB spokesman.
Shorts
UK birder makes huge counts in the US! http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/living/health/7407925.htm
Getting back to nature Months after being rescued from an oil pit in Alaska, a tundra swan is returned to her own kind in Maryland. http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.swan04dec04,0,2928433.story
River clean up has swans in a flap Swan family reunited after workers cut off female. http://www.thecomet.net/archived/2003/wk47_2003/news/asp/swans.asp
......and I lost a story about a bounty being placed on the killer of a Bald Eagle. Will see if I can find it again!
Is this the sort of news feed you all want?
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