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Highlights
At Robinson Preserve near Tampa Bay, NOAA and partners are monitoring how coastal habitat restoration is helping support Florida’s recreational fisheries. The multi-million dollar habitat restoration effort to restore coastal wetlands, mangroves, and other habitat for fish is also a popular recreational destination and the restoration focuses on habitat for Florida fisheries that are popular with saltwater anglers. Ongoing monitoring and research will help us better understand how this restoration work is affecting recreational fisheries and benefiting the local community. Contact: Kris Kaufman.
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An ill-conceived shipping channel and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans’ wetlands, turning a thriving cypress forest into a ghost swamp. Now, with funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, NOAA's partners are restoring the wetlands and improving the sustainability of the Lower Ninth Ward and neighboring communities. Contact: John Barco.
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NOAA and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission have been working with Duke Energy on major upgrades to fish passage facilities along hydropower dams in North Carolina. Duke Energy has recently completed upgrades at the Blewett Falls Hydroelectric Project. As a result hundreds of miles of upstream spawning and rearing habitat is now reopened for American eel, American shad, and blueback herring. Contact: Dani Weissman.
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For years, NOAA and partners have worked to provide opportunities for military veterans to build their skills and work experience contributing to habitat and fisheries restoration projects along the West Coast through paid internships and training programs. Learn more about the experiences of this year’s three interns. Contact: Laurel Jennings.
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Estuaries provide habitat for wildlife and fish, create protective breeding grounds, and allow for migratory resting spots. Estuaries also provide ecosystem services such as natural filtration of pollution and flood protection. NOAA’s Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program works to protect, restore, and maintain habitat after oil spills and toxic waste releases. We conduct extensive restoration work among estuarine habitat. Read on to learn about recent projects that include estuary restoration. Contact: Jeff Smith.
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Habitat Across NOAA
NOAA Fisheries has approved a new conservation framework for about 30,000 acres of private forestland in northwest Oregon. It will improve habitat for threatened Chinook and coho salmon and steelhead over the coming decades. The habitat conservation plan addresses Port Blakely US Forestry forests in the Clackamas and Molalla basins and is the first plan of its kind for private forests in Oregon. The company will continue to harvest timber under the 50-year permit while also improving habitat the threatened species need to recover.
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Alaska deep-sea coral and sponge communities provide habitat for many important commercial fish. This summer, an international team of scientists set out to evaluate the effectiveness of current protections at maintaining healthy coral and sponge communities. The research was a collaborative effort by NOAA Fisheries and several partners and findings from the study will inform management decisions regarding sustainability of current closures and potential future changes in fisheries.
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The Chesapeake Bay Program is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office leads environmental literacy efforts across the watershed through the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Education Workgroup. To highlight the evolution of environmental literacy and education efforts over the Chesapeake Bay Program’s history, NCBO contributed a guest blog.
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Announcements
The Deepwater Horizon Open Ocean Trustees will hold their 2023 annual public meeting via webinar on October 19, 2023 at 12 p.m. Central Time. Learn about ongoing projects, restoration plans, and monitoring and adaptive management activities . Attendees will also have an opportunity for questions and answers after the updates.
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We’ll highlight oyster reef restoration and oyster aquaculture all week long on social media at the @NOAAHabitat Twitter/X account and on the NOAA Fisheries Facebook and Instagram accounts. Follow and “like” posts to learn more about the people, places, and tastes behind oyster aquaculture and to see why oyster reef restoration is so important, and how NOAA science makes it all work.
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BIL/IRA Habitat Restoration Grant Application Due Dates
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