Breaux Act Newsflash - Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act Priority Project List 18 Voting Results Announcement and More...
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Priority Project List 18 Voting Results
The Nominee Selection results of the proposed and demonstration projects
and detailed basin voting spreadsheets with all agency and parish votes
from the PPL18 Regional Planning Team (RPT) Coastwide Voting meeting can
be found on
http://lacoast.gov/reports/multiproject/PPL/index.htm
or
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pd/RPT-PPL18-nominee-rankings_for_voting.pdf
Anne E. Gallagher
CWPPRA Contractor
USACE New Orleans, LA
504.862.2032
504.862.1892 (fax)
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CREST Scholars Meeting
March 7, 2008 9:00:00 AM - 2:00:00 PM
Room 257 Lindy Boggs Center University of New Orleans
The CREST (Coastal Restoration and Enhancement Through Science and
Technology) Scholars Program funds graduate student research at the member
universities of the CREST program - Louisiana State University, Loyola
University, McNeese State University, Southern University at New Orleans,
Southeastern Louisiana University, Tulane University, University of
Louisiana at Lafayette, University of New Orleans, University of Southern
Mississippi - to help train the next generation of coastal researchers.
Dr. Bob Thomas of Loyola University will be the lunchtime speaker.
Contact Info: Doug Daigle at the CREST Office (225-578-0069.)
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Local Coastal Program
3rd Quarterly Meeting 2007/2008
Louisiana State Library
701 North 4th Street
Rare Book Room 523
Baton Rouge, LA
March 19, 2008
9:00 am
Agenda
9:00 to 9:20 Gregory DuCote, CMD
Opening Remarks
Executive Order BJ 2008-7
Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
9:20 to 10:00 Norwyn Johnson, OCRM
Comprehensive Master Plan: Implementation/State Annual Plan FY 2009
10:00 to 10:30 Jim Rives/Rocky Hinds, CMD
Coordination Guidelines for the Comprehensive Master Plan
10:30 to 11:00 Karl Morgan, CMD
GIS Integration for the Comprehensive Master Plan
11:00 to 11:30 Gregory DuCote, CMD
Parish 309 Task Deliverables for FY07/08
11:30 to 12:00 James Miller, Terrebonne Parish: Spray Dredging on Bayou
Chauvin
12:00 until Open Round Table Discussion
For more information, please contact
Jon A. Truxillo
Coastal Resources Scientist
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Management Division
225.342.3394 fax 9439
jon.truxillo@la.gov
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Hazard Mitigation and Land Use Planning in Coastal Louisiana:
Recommendations for the Future
This project assesses the current state of land use planning authority and
practice, as it pertains to the ability of the state and local governments
to respond to their coastal crisis. In addition, it provides coastal
parish and state land use planners with information on legal and policy
tools that allow them to use available powers to achieve public safety
goals and to optimize the effectiveness and value of coastal restoration
projects. Where sufficient powers are lacking, the project identifies gaps
and provides information to land use planners, allowing them to promote
land use planning as a necessary element in addressing land loss issues.
This project also provides lawmakers with information on land use planning
issues that will assist them in enacting legislation necessary to respond
to the requests and needs of land use planners for greater powers with
which to address coastal land loss issues. Read more at
http://www.lsu.edu/sglegal/projects/completed.htm
Completed by Rod Emmer ( remmerla@bellsouth.net) , James
Wilkins(jwilkins@lsu.edu) , Lisa Schiavinato ( lisas.lsu@gmail.com), Mark
Davis (Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana - coalition@crcl.org), and
Mike Wascom (School of the Coast and Environment, Department of
Environmental Studies - coewas@lsu.edu)
Contact James Wilkins for more information,
jwilkins@lsu.edu
To download the complete report (435KB PDF)
http://www.lsu.edu/sglegal/pdfs/CompPlanningReport.pdf
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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
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts Due by April 11, 2008
On behalf of the Association of State Wetland Managers, Inc., the Pacific
Northwest Chapter of the Society of Wetland Scientists, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the Oregon Department of State Lands
we would like to invite you to submit a paper for Wetlands 2008. The
deadline to submit abstracts is April 11, 2008. The overall goal of this
conference is to help wetland professionals in the public and private
sectors 1) gain a better understanding of the challenges created by
climate change and 2) identify discrete activities and actions to take to
reduce and mitigate impacts on wetlands and water resources as well as
communities. The conference will also address ongoing changes and
challenges in wetlands and water resources management.
Please click on the links below or go to
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/index.htm for more detailed
information on Wetlands 2008:
Call for Papers
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/cfp_2008.htm
Abstract Submission
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/cfp_2008.htm#submission
Call for Paper Topics
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/cfp_2008.htm#topics
Wetlands 2008 Home Page
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/indes.htm
Location/Hotel Information
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/hotel.htm
Sponsorship Levels
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/sponsorship_levels.htm
Things to Do in Portland
http://www.aswm.org/calendar/wetlands2008/things_to_do_2008.htm
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