wildlife habitat

Congress has set aside $300 million to continue a wide-ranging program to heal the Great Lakes environment by removing toxic sediments, improving wildlife habitat and fighting invasive species.

By Jeff Nagel - BC Local News Published: September 13, 2011 5:00 PM Updated: September 13, 2011 5:13 PM Metro Vancouver directors are giving the green light to a farming academy in Colony Farm Regional Park despite opposition from environmentalists who fear bird and wildlife habitat will be lost.

Act 250 hearings for True North Wilderness's Fayston project have been put on hold while the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources reviews the project's impact on bear and wildlife habitat on the 650-acre Lathrop parcel.

On April 18, Earth Week began with the announcement of agreements to preserve 1,900 acres in the heart of central New Jersey as wildlife habitat, preserved farmland, and additions to county parks and greenways along historic Crosswicks Creek.

Gov. Matt Mead says the U.S. Forest Service needs more data if it intends to gauge how proposed gas drilling in the Wyoming Range would affect the air, water and wildlife habitat.

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI a ' Mississippi farmers are being encouraged to sign up for a Farm Service Agency program aimed at defeating erosion, promoting clean air and reinforcing wildlife habitat.

Local and regional prescription collection programs are trying to keep medicine out of Washington's drinking water and wildlife habitat.

A La Crosse, Wis., company has been awarded a $3.4 million contract to restore islands, and ultimately wildlife habitat, in the Mississippi River.

The federal government says $1.8 million has been approved for protecting and restoring more than 1,500 acres of wetlands and wildlife habitat in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania.

Loss of unique habitats such as bogs and wetlands and the threat from invasive species are the most significant dangers to wildlife in Ireland, experts have warned.