The concept of durability has been at the forefront of my mind as we’ve worked with grantees and partners over the past year to refresh the Hewlett Foundation’s Western Conservation grantmaking strategy. It’s no secret that the U.S. West is facing a biodiversity and climate crisis — with communities and ecosystems alike under threat of…

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the completion of on a series of flood resiliency projects in the Village of Clayton, Jefferson County. The five completed projects were awarded more than $8.6 million in grant funding through the State’s Lake Ontario Resiliency and Economic Development Initiative. The completed REDI-funded projects will help mitigate the impact of…

Students and educators from Lincoln County Schools, whether they be public, private, or homeschooled, are invited to participate in the Annual Conservation Contest hosted by the Lincoln County Conservation Program. The Conservation Contest encourages students to submit posters or write and perform speeches that illustrate the conservation theme of the year. For 2024, the Conservation…

OFA comments on the proposed changes to the environmental permissions for stormwater management under the Environmental Activity and Sector Registry. OFA is in favour of the intent of creating more efficient environmental permissions processes. However, OFA is concerned that this proposal requires further considerations with regards to the significant unintended consequences to neighbouring agricultural properties,…

Located in a quiet part of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, the village of Tautira sits on the ocean’s edge, framed by black sand beaches and a turquoise lagoon. With a population of just over 2,500, Tautira is known as the “village at the end of the road.” Beyond it is the island’s last truly wild…

Heard on Main Street: Separation of church and state is to protect God from the government, not government from God. Thank you, Abbie McGrath. You not only have a wonderful singing voice, but I greatly admire your writing voice. I thank you for the Essay you gave us in last week’s paper. Why should we…

As demand for utility-scale solar energy continues to grow across the South, there’s increasing attention on the development process and planning for solar installations, the policy and regulatory landscape, and the impact solar projects will have on the economy, environment, and local communities.  “One of the most important decisions in a large-scale solar project begins…

The Alexander Soil & Water Conservation District held its 30th Annual Environmental Field Days on October 25-26 at H&H Arena and Herman Dairy Farm. The event hosted 392 fifth-grade students and 22 teachers from seven public elementary schools, two Christian schools, and one homeschool. Soil & Water Director Pamela Bowman said the main purpose of…

PENOBSCOT COUNTY, Maine — On a recent morning at the Penobscot Nation headquarters, moose mating rituals dominated the office banter: the wacky way a lovesick moose had stumbled around someone’s pickup truck, the grunts a bull moose made when he heard a hunter’s low moan — an imitation of a female mating call. “I don’t…