NOAA Fisheries’ Post

Since 1900, more than 93 percent of Puget Sound’s natural shoreline has been modified by human development. That has affected the nearshore habitat in Puget Sound, habitat that supports forage fish, salmon, and—further up the food chain—Southern Resident killer whales. A new tool, the Salish Sea Nearshore Programmatic Biological Opinion, helps slow the loss of nearshore habitat in Puget Sound. This tool helps balance out the ecological impacts of on- or over-water construction with equivalent ecological offsets. Project proponents can offset impacts by purchasing conservation credits from the Partnership’s Nearshore Credits Program, which helps fund restoration throughout the region. Read more in the new issue of Making Waves: https://lnkd.in/gxRAnQns Thanks so much to NOAA Fisheries, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Washington State Department of Natural Resources, Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, and SAN JUAN COUNTY for their contributions to this article.

TBI partners with SF Baykeeper on several important water quality and endangered species issues in the Bay-Delta estuary. Here's a piece by Baykeeper - backed up by the joint comments that TBI, Baykeeper and others submitted to the state - that focuses on the total inadequacies of Governor Newsom’s proposed Voluntary Agreements, backroom deals that excluded most interests and would utterly fail to protect fish and wildlife or water quality: “Newsom’s VA is astonishingly weak. The Water Board’s analysis shows that, at best, the VA’s purported benefits will be meager. For example, although flows to San Francisco Bay are projected to increase slightly over the severely degraded status quo in many years, the VA would result in lower flows to the Bay in wet years—the only times when our Chinook salmon, white sturgeon, longfin smelt, and other native fish can still catch a break.” https://lnkd.in/gQyR8VBy

Native vegetation restoration is not only economically beneficial but also provides systems-level benefits like, increased biodiversity, increased water recharge, and increased potential for carbon sequestration! Check out the Texan by Nature case study below:

When Europe’s pristine waters of the #BlueHeart are threatened, local communities mobilize to amplify their voices in the conservation of these unique ecosystems. Read our next #WildRivers blog post to learn more about current threats to the #BalkanRivers, and the critical importance of preserving our last free-flowing rivers: https://bit.ly/the-balkans

Companies can make a positive impact when they embed local conservation efforts to their operations– this study shares some of those benefits! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/ggfQuQZi

Native vegetation restoration is not only economically beneficial but also provides systems-level benefits like, increased biodiversity, increased water recharge, and increased potential for carbon sequestration! Check out the Texan by Nature case study below:

Rights of Way (ROW) permits industry members to cross public or private land for the purpose of connecting projects like communication towers, pipelines, and others. What if, along the way, industry created a positive conservation impact by restoring native vegetation? What kind of benefits would we see? A 2-year study by Texan by Nature, Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management and EcoMetrics LLC funded by EOG Resources found that native vegetation restoration is not only economically beneficial but provides systems-level benefits like: 🦋Increased biodiversity 💧Increased water recharge 🌱Increased potential for carbon sequestration Read the project summary here: https://lnkd.in/gAFJzw_Y

Native vegetation restoration is not only economically beneficial but also provides systems-level benefits such as increases in biodiversity, water recharge, and carbon sequestration! Implementing these types of local conservation efforts as part of operational practice can help organizations achieve long term environmental sustainability goals. Check out the @Texan by Nature case study below:

Native vegetation restoration is not only economically beneficial but also provides systems-level benefits like, increased biodiversity, increased water recharge, and increased potential for carbon sequestration! Check out the Texan by Nature case study below! #Conservation #Restoration #Collaboration #TxN

We're happy to share the latest study from our partnership with Texan by Nature, funded by EOG Resources, to quantify the value of restored native vegetation on oil and gas production sites in the Eagle Ford Shale play. Until now, we've had limited data to truly evaluate the difference in returning disturbed lands to native states versus the traditional use of non-native seeds post-production. Read the case study to see what we discovered—hint—the native restored sites showed good indications of ecological health with 116% more species abundance compared to non-native production sites. 👍 https://lnkd.in/gWpAqBiw