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Coastal Restoration
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Coastal management and restoration of our planet's coastlines with a particular focus on California, Louisiana and the Pacific. Emphasizing wetland restoration, aspects of agriculture in the coastal plain, fisheries, dealing with coastal hazards, and effective governance.
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Oil and gas access roads in western Amazon could open up ‘Pandora’s box’ of environmental impacts Oil and gas roads are encroaching deeper into the western Amazon, one of the world’s last wildernesses and biodiversity hotspots, according to a new... Via Garry Rogers
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While not new, this is still concerning. More and more roads = more and more fragmentation = less and less intact forest. 
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January 29, 2015 9:27 AM
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(Phys.org) —A first-of-its-kind study of Banff National Park bears by scientists with the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University has shown that a system of wildlife crossing structures there is helping to maintain genetically... Via Garry Rogers
PIRatE Lab's insight:
More evidence that getting animals safely across the road is better for the population diversity on both sides of that road.
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From an urban puma's perspective, the news of late from greater Los Angeles has been mixed.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
The drumbeat for a crossing over the death trap of an animal killer-the 101 Freeway-is heating up. This particular crossing at Liberty Canyon is a natural place to put it. But we really need more than one to stave off the worst effect of habitat fragmentation.
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The presence of humans unnerves mountain lions, causing them to leave carcasses half-eaten.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Interesting. Another example of fragmentation/disturbance!
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Researchers have created a ‘large-scale zoning plan’ that aims to limit the environmental costs of road expansion while maximizing its benefits for human development.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Their map has two components: an 'environmental-values' layer that estimates that natural importance of ecosystems and a 'road-benefits' layer that estimates the potential for increased agriculture production via new or improved roads. By merging these two maps, they have predicted where roads would be minimally impactful.
I'm not ad advocate for roads, but this is certainly an improvement over the default approach to fragmentation and destruction that is the norm.
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Three kittens were found struck and killed on local highways in recent weeks, calling attention to what researchers say is one of the biggest barriers to mountain lions’ long-term survival in the Santa Monica Mountains.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We need crossing structures!!!
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A mountain lion killed last month by a motorist on the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills was a visitor from the north that would have brought new genetic material to the isolated cougar population in the Santa Monica Mountains, the National Park Service...
PIRatE Lab's insight:
We discussed this both last night and the previous night at various public and scientific meetings I attended. This is both sad and hopeful; sad that this critter and his genetic "refresh" was lost...but hopeful in that there is an ability for critters from one part of our fragmented coastal landscape to get our Santa Monica Mountains region IF we can get better crossing structures built. The Libery crossing is the most high profile. We need many, many more crossing points.
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