NOAA Announces Update to Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Guidelines

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is accepting comments on the recently announced plans for updating guidelines for the Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP). CELCP was established in 2002 to protect coastal and estuarine lands and provides state and local governments with matching funds to purchase conservation easements on or acquire significant coastal and estuarine lands. Conservation districts that have experience with CELCP can provide comments or suggestions to NOAA for consideration in updating the CELCP guidelines.
Comments on the CELCP guidelines can be submitted until June 9, 2008. More information can be found on the NOAA website at http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/land/celcp_indepth.html.

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Oregon Department of State Lands and US ACOE develop new General Authorization for aquatic restoration-target to implementation May 1, 2008.

http://oregonstatelands.us/DSL/PERMITS/large_wood_proposed_ga_rules.shtm

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Department of State Lands Announces
2008 Public Involvement Workshops on State Removal-Fill Rules.
Details (PDF)

The two DSL workshops will be held on June 25, 2008 and July 1, 2008, as follows:

June 25, 2008    1pm-3pm Associated General contractors of America, Inc. Oregon-Columbia Chapter 9450 SW Commerce Circle 2nd Floor Conference Room Wilsonville, OR

July 1, 2008    1pm-3pm Klamath County Courthouse 316 Main Street Klamath Falls, OR

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Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change,
September 15-19, 2008
  Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center Portland-Lloyd Center, Portland, Oregon

Wetlands 2008—co-hosted by the Association of State Wetland Managers (ASWM) and the Pacific Northwest chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists—will be held in Portland, Oregon, September 15 through 19.  Mark those calendars now!

“Wetlands and climate change” is the conference theme and there will be both regional and national speakers on this hot topic!  There will also be special sessions on wetland condition assessment and monitoring, floodplain management and wetlands, mitigation banking, updates on federal Clean Water Act issues directly from Corps of Engineers headquarters and the U.S. Department of Justice, and much more.  These meetings emphasize wetland program needs, management aspects of wetlands and incorporating science into management programs and policies.  They always provide great opportunities to learn from, and share information among, different levels of government and different states and tribes.

Please visit and mark the ASWM web site below for more information as it develops, including some great field trip opportunities.  If you’re from out-of-state, September weather in Oregon is usually wonderful and there are rocky beaches, volcanic mountains, dozens of wineries producing elegant Pinot Noir, the Columbia River Gorge and much more all within a day’s drive.  Reason enough to come to the meeting!
http://www.aswm.org/#1a