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An acre a day. That’s how quickly natural lands are being lost in New Hampshire’s coastal watershed due to development. To help protect these places for the future, the Great Bay Reserve …
Talk NERRdy to Me: Julie Binz
This month, NERRA’s roving reporter Nik Charov spoke with Julie Binz, manager at the ACE Basin Reserve in South Carolina. They talked about confounding geography, environmental education, human dimensions, and a certain graduate program every wannabe-NERRd should know.
DC Download: January 2023
The Reserve System, and the thousands who support it, is a constant force for positive change—and it’s growing. In support of this, NERRA’s request for the NERRS FY 2024 budget is $47M for operations (ORF) and $10M for PAC.
Reserves in the Media
- Giant 4-Foot Long Sea Creature Washes Ashore in Texas: (Mission-Aransas) February 2, 2023 – Field & Stream
- Biology Professors Granted $1 Million for Wetlands Research: (GTM) February 1, 2023 – The Villanovan
- To Best Fight Climate Change, ‘Blue Carbon’ Habitats Must First Survive It: (Elkhorn Slough) January 31, 2023 – PEW
- The 5 best road trips to Everglades National Park: (Rookery Bay) January 31, 2023 – Lonely Planet
- That’s a lot of sushi! Giant 4-foot eel washes up on Texas beach: (Mission-Aransas) January 30, 2023 – Study Finds
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Nurdle Patrol is Growing
When Wyvette Robinson heard about the Mission-Aransas Reserve’s Nurdle Patrol on Facebook, she was intrigued. Not only is plastic pollution a big deal for her organization, any opportunity to share new education tools and resources with Mississippi teachers and students gets her “pumped.”
Building Resilience Through Community on Deal Island
As sea levels rise and the lands of the Chesapeake region sink, the residents of Deal Island are working with Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Reserve to use natural infrastructure to defend their communities.
Keeping Wetland Carbon in the Bank
Wetlands are custodians of a greenhouse gas heavyweight—methane. Understanding which types of wetlands emit methane, where they are, and whether these emissions are natural or caused by people is critical information …