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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 EPA Intends to Revise Definition of Waters of the United States

Rob Geho — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:49:29 +0000

On March 12, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced their intent to revise the definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS) – Administrator Zeldin Announces EPA Will Revise Waters of the United States Rule | US EPA. This proposed effort includes three action items noted below. On March 12, 2025, a memorandum to the field between the U.S. Department of the Army, U.S.

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 Discovering a New County Record for Barborpoll Bulrush in West Virginia

Jonna Miller — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:45:31 +0000

At CEC, the Ecological Sciences team is always hard at work in the field, monitoring invasive plants, performing habitat assessments, and surveying rare, threatened, and endangered species. One recent breakthrough showcases the dedication and expertise of our botanists, Kyle Filicky, PWS, and Alexandrea Casile, who documented an exciting discovery: a new county record for Barborpoll Bulrush…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 CEC Tackles Another Colorado Process-Based Restoration Design Project

Jonna Miller — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:29:22 +0000

CEC’s restoration design team, led by Christy Mower, was hired by the City of Fort Collins’ (Colorado) Natural Areas Department (FCNAD) to design a headwaters restoration project within a prairie region just south of the Colorado and Wyoming border, referred to as Brannigan Springs, located within a 22,000-acre site called Soapstone Prairie Natural Area (SSN). The City of Fort Collins is…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 Ryan Leiberher is New Principal in CEC Athen’s Ecological Sciences Practice

CEC Staff — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:13:38 +0000

Ryan Leiberher Principal 570.731.7203 rleiberher@cecinc.com CEC is pleased to announce Ryan Leiberher has joined CEC Athens as a Principal in its Ecological Sciences practice. Ryan has more than 24 years of professional experience as a natural resources biologist, project manager, and department manager. He has been involved in many projects for oil and gas, transportation, infrastructure…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 CEC Knoxville Doubles Ecological Sciences Practice in 2024

Jonna Miller — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:13:14 +0000

It’s been quite a year of growth for our Ecological Sciences practice in Knoxville! CEC more than doubled the size of the Knoxville practice in 2024 and now, together with our Nashville office, CEC has one of the largest Ecological Sciences practices in Tennessee. Greg Babbit, PWS, a Principal and the Ecological Sciences Practice Lead in Knoxville, says with the addition of new people…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 CEC Leverages Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration Strategies for Mitigation in Summit County, CO

Jonna Miller — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:21:13 +0000

This is a view of Soda Creek after the restoration project. (Photo courtesy of the National Forest Foundation) Beavers have long been known as “ecosystem engineers.” These busy creatures alter, manage, and often improve the ecosystems in which they live. In Summit County, along Soda Creek, near Keystone, Colorado, the beavers did a pretty good job managing the ecosystem…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 CEC’s Leo Lentsch Co-Authors Article on Proposed Species Mitigation Rule

CEC Staff — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:00:14 +0000

Leo Lentsch, a Senior Principal in CEC’s Ecological Sciences Practice, is a co-author on a recently published article included in the Fall 2023 edition of Natural Resources & Environment, an American Bar Association publication. “How the Forthcoming Species Mitigation Rule May Influence Private Investment in Species Biodiversity” was co-authored by Sara L. Johnson, the Executive Director of…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 Invasive Quagga Mussel Could Pose Huge Risk to Drinking Water, Power and Manufacturing Industries along Snake and Columbia River Systems

CEC Staff — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:22:29 +0000

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) announced on Sept. 19, 2023, that larva of the quagga mussel have been detected in the Snake River, a tributary of the Columbia River. The quagga mussels and their close relative, the zebra mussel, impact hydropower, manufacturing, irrigation, and other water-based infrastructure by attaching to the inside of pipes and clogging the systems…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 “Revised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’” Published in Federal Register

CEC Staff — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:07:28 +0000

On September 8, 2023, the “Revised Definition of ‘Waters of the United States’” was published in the Federal Register. This rule, created by the Environmental Protection Agency and United States Army Corps of Engineers, amends the agencies’ January 2023 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) definition, portions of which were rendered invalid based on a May 2023 Supreme Court decision in the Sackett…

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澳洲幸运5开奖官网 Fish Habitat Mitigation Takes Home CEC Innovation Award, Here’s How it Works

CEC Staff — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 14:41:29 +0000

“Necessity is the mother of invention” certainly rings true in the case of Shawn French’s winning 2022 Innovation Award. Shawn, a Project Manager in CEC Pittsburgh’s Ecological Services practice, devised a solution to a fish habitat mitigation challenge at the proposed riverfront site of Nucor Steel in Apple Grove, West Virginia. Compensatory mitigation in the form of fish habitat…

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