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March — April, 2004
Volume 3, Issue 2
Welcome to
the newest issue of Tributary Times, our online newsletter about
Delaware's Tributary Action Teams and their activities. We've
also got some news items that we'd like you to know about, and
would also like to invite you to join the Team that's working
in your part of the State.
Most
of the items you see on this page are linked to more detailed
information, either on our site or at another Internet resource.
Please feel free to link to those articles, and then come back
here to learn more!
If you
like what you see, why not invite your family, friends, and neighbors
to visit our site and sign up for their own copy? The more we
help build awareness of the condition of our waterways and their
challenges, the sooner we'll be able to make all of Delaware's
water as clean as it can be.
Statewide News
The
2004 Tributary Action Team Conference
Was a Great Success! — The
Second Annual Tributary Action Team Conference
took place March 13th at Saint Andrew's
School in Middletown. We built
on last year's success with a great program
we would like to share with you. You
can access all the PowerPoint presentations,
too! Click
here for more...
Finding
NEMO in a Watershed Near You — NEMO
has been around since 1991 when educators at the University
of Connecticut developed a pilot education program
for local land use decision makers that made the link
between land use and water quality. Now, NEMO
will be making its splash in Delaware in the coming
months. Click
here for more...
St.
Jones River Greenway Cleanup — Kent
County Levy Court Parks Division staff and approximately
90 volunteers and support personnel participated in the
Kent County Levy Court, Department
of Community Service, Division of Parks 2004 Earth
Day Project. Volunteers and staff were involved from
at least 12 organizations, including Dover
Air Force Base, Capital Park Civic Association, in
cooperation with the Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control -
Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, St.
Jones Greenway, AmeriCorps - National
Civilian Community Corps, a local church, University
of Delaware, Delaware
Solid Waste Authority, Girl
Scouts and Boy
Scouts, Delaware
State Police Troop 3, Kent
County EMS as well as environmentally concerned citizens
of Kent County. Click
here for more...
Include
Your Organization's Events in Our Calendar — If
your organization is working on issues that involve
water and watershed quality in Delaware, we would
like to invite you to include your meetings and events
in our calendar. Please click
here for our convenient event information form.
Appoquinimink
Tributary Action Team
Inland
Bays Tributary Action Team
Precision
Farming with Today's Technologies — New
farming methods over the last decade are
rapidly gaining supporters as technology
advances. Precision farming is a management
strategy that benefits both the farmer and
the environment through advanced information
technologies. A combination of detailed
soil analysis and mapping, satellite technology,
equipment capable of changing application
and seeding rates on-the-go, and several
other high technology tools allow site-specific
farming practices that improve the farmer's
bottom line. Click
here for more...
Volunteer
Plover Watchers Needed to Protect Nesting
Areas at Cape Henlopen State Park — Piping
plovers, tiny beach nesters whose dwindling populations
have landed them on the federal Endangered
Species List, have started arriving along Delaware's
coast for the season. Two nests, the first in
Delaware this year, have been found around Gordon's
Pond at Cape
Henlopen State Park. Other pairs are displaying
mating behavior at The Point. The Division
of Fish and Wildlife is recruiting volunteers to
help protect their nesting areas. Click
here for more...
Inland
Bays Beach Grass Planting — The
Division of Soil and Water Conservation’s Shoreline
Management Branch and Dune Maintenance Program held
its 15th Annual Beach Grass Planting on March
27, 2004. The day started out a little wet,
but it ended up being a beautiful day for planting. This
year the volunteers planted about 80,000
units of Cape American Beach grass along 2 miles
of Delaware's Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay coastlines. Click
here for more...
Murderkill
Tributary Action Team
The
Impact of Land Use on the Murderkill River Watershed — This
June marks the two year anniversary of the
Murderkill River Watershed Tributary Action
Team, which was formed to recommend strategies
to reduce the river's nutrient loading. Our
January/February issue included an
article that discussed some of the successful
actions that have been implemented since the
team started. This time we'll discuss
land use and its impact on water quality in
the watershed. Click
here for more...
Nanticoke
Tributary Action Team
2004
Nanticoke River Shad Festival — On
Saturday, April 24, 2004, the Nanticoke
Watershed Alliance, the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation (CBF) and partnering organizations
hosted the Ninth Annual Nanticoke River Shad
Festival on the banks of the Nanticoke River
in historic Vienna, Maryland. Drawing
a crowd of over 2,000 from throughout Delmarva,
the festival, planned to coincide with the
spring spawning runs of American
shad, brings attention to the species and
efforts to restore its population. Click
here for more...
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