CDFW Awards $4.2 Million for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Grant Projects
This is a press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) [recently] announced the selection of three projects to restore wetlands that sequester greenhouse gases (GHGs) and provide other ecological co-benefits.
The awards, totaling $4.2 million, were made under CDFW’s 2017 Wetlands Restoration for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program Proposal Solicitation Notice.
The Wetlands Restoration for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program focuses on projects with measurable objectives that will lead to GHG reductions in wetlands and watersheds while providing co-benefits such as enhancing fish and wildlife habitat, protecting and improving water quality and quantity, and helping California adapt to climate change. Wetlands have high carbon sequestration rates that can store carbon for decades.
“We are fortunate to have the opportunity to fund wetland restoration projects while directly addressing climate resiliency and furthering the science of carbon sequestration,” CDFW Director Charlton H. Bonham said. “Wetlands play a vital role in our state’s water storage and as natural carbon sinks, provide significant other benefits.”
Projects approved for funding are:
- Van Norden Meadow Restoration Project ($1,948,803 to the South Yuba River Citizens League). The Van Norden Meadow Restoration Project is a unique opportunity to advance the understanding of multiple benefits that meadow restoration projects provide through a collaborative monitoring and restoration program. The project proposes to restore 485 acres of meadow habitat and conduct monitoring to address specific uncertainties about how meadow restoration benefits meadow hydrology, ecology, biology, carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas cycling, and increase our understanding of the vulnerability of meadows to climate change.
- Elkhorn Slough Tidal Marsh Restoration: Hester Phase II ($1,596,779 to Elkhorn Slough Foundation). Elkhorn Slough, one of the largest estuaries in California, contains the state’s largest salt marshes south of San Francisco Bay. The slough provides important habitat for a broad range of resident and migratory birds, invertebrates, fish, marine mammals and other wildlife, and plays a crucial role in the local estuarine and nearshore food web. The project includes restoration of an entire cross section of coastal ecosystem from carbon sequestering native oyster beds, 30 acres of historically diked and drained coastal wetlands, and five acres adjacent vegetated buffer. Building upon the success of Hester Phase I, the project will enhance sophisticated GHG science and monitoring as well as investigating the novel GHG mitigation strategy of converting plant waste to biochar as a soil amendment.
- Ecosystem and Community Resiliency in the Sierra Nevada: Restoration of the Clover Valley Ranch ($680,974 to The Sierra Fund). The overarching goal of this project is to improve climate resilience at the ecosystem and community level in Red Clover Valley. Ecosystem resiliency is defined as the reestablishment of hydrologic function and mesic vegetation, while community resiliency is defined as long-term engagement and capacity building of residents of the region, including the Mountain Maidu Tribe. This project leverages Natural Resources Conservation Service implementation including construction of grade control structures, beaver dam analogues and revegetation, and proposes to evaluate the effectiveness of restoration for improving climate resilience. The on-the-ground activities will result in GHG sequestration benefits and environmental and economic co-benefits for people and species of the region, while monitoring will ensure that benefits are quantified, contributing to climate-based understanding of Sierra Nevada meadows.
CDFW’s Wetlands Restoration for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing GHG emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment – particularly in disadvantaged communities. The cap-and-trade program also creates a financial incentive for industries to invest in clean technologies and develop innovative ways to reduce pollution. California Climate Investments projects include affordable housing, renewable energy, public transportation, zero-emission vehicles, environmental restoration, more sustainable agriculture, recycling and much more.
More information about the CDFW program can be found at wildlife.ca.gov/conservation/watersheds/greenhouse-gas-reduction.
For more information, please visit the California Climate Investments website at www.caclimateinvestments.ca.gov.
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Alright.
There are 170,000,000 cars in the world. They produce 68,000 tons of pollution a year. Big deal. That is not a lot of pollution, or carbon. Before I reveal the next statistic, I would ask you where your clothes come from, as well as much of the stuff in your house and life. If it is from over seas, the ships that bring all this stuff to our shores burn 7500 gallons of fuel AN HOUR.
Or, there are 90,000 container cargo ships on the oceans. They produce 270,000,000 tons of pollution a year. Buy things made in the USA, almost no pollution. Container ships are the enemy of the planet. So much for globalization, which promotes pollution and disenfranchising of our rights. Fuck the globalists, fuck Soros, fuck the EU.
MMMMM bunker oil. You think diesel produces a lot of fine particulates? All that sh1t settles out somewhere in the marine food chain. Where does the waste and trash from all the ships go? We treat the oceans like a sewer and expect it to produce more and more food in return. Carbon taxes are a total scam, but at least some of it is coming back to our communities in the form of restoration work.
All of the worlds ocean freight produces around 3% of total carbon emitted from fossil fuels.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shipping
18-30% of the nitrous oxide emotion and 9% of the sulphur. Lots of room for improvement. That’s still probably less than other means of transport would emit, though.
Well hope this grant goes straight to eradication of mega grows. major source of CO2 emissions. Heavy in fossil fuel combustion, deforestation, change in land use, soil erosion, and you guessed it agriculture.
. Simple math. I am the problem, you are the problem, we are the problem.
LostCoastEMO
Touche’ lmao
Please define mega grow
More than 6 plants.
Hillariorus.
I guess that’s what the logging industry was planning. Clear-cut and burn!
That was different: peabrain prohibitionist have no problem cutting old growth forests. As long as there’s no “reefer madness” to scare the shit outta these snowflakes.
Corn, grapes, cotton all impact the environment more than cannabis. Good luck with your education.
>”…restoration of an entire cross section of coastal ecosystem from carbon sequestering native oyster beds, 30 acres of historically diked and drained coastal wetlands, and five acres adjacent vegetated buffer. Building upon the success of Hester Phase I, the project will enhance sophisticated GHG science and monitoring as well as investigating the novel GHG mitigation strategy of converting plant waste to biochar as a soil amendment.”
>”… unique opportunity to advance the understanding of multiple benefits that meadow restoration projects provide through a collaborative monitoring and restoration program.”
>”Ecosystem resiliency is defined as the reestablishment of hydrologic function and mesic vegetation, while community resiliency is defined as long-term engagement and capacity building of residents of the region, including the Mountain Maidu Tribe.”
Hmmm… classic corporate talk. I ‘somehow’… er… suspect wasted money.
Leverage agile ecosystem frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level macro overviews. Iterative approaches to landscape scale strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition. Organically grow the holistic world view of disruptive bio-innovation via native vegitative diversity and indigenous intersectional stakeholder empowerment.
How’d I do?
LMAO
Are we the sheeple supposed to applaud Fish and Wildlife after 5 months of daily trespassing on, and chipper destruction of, private property?
Maxim of law; Once a fraud, always a fraud.
77 % is nitrogen
21 % is oxygen
the remaining 2% is argon and carbon. Carbon being 0.38 %……
Super scam.
“If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.”- George Washington, 1732-1799
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” . . . “Paper is poverty. It is the ghost of money and not money itself.”– Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.” – James Madison, 1751-1836
Just another grant that should be in the yearly Festivus report.
When scientists get funding for studying lizards under leaf blowers, and how quail prefer sex while under the influence of cocaine, it’s really difficult to take any of their specialty grants seriously. The end of each study always concludes with ‘more money is needed for more govt paid for science studies, so hand it over”.
https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/dr-rand-paul-releases-2018-%E2%80%98festivus%E2%80%99-edition-%E2%80%98-waste-report%E2%80%99
Do you even read the shit you link to? That article is about funding counterterrorism.
Scroll past the 5 big photo’s and you’ll find the list. It’s the part that has words and dollar signs.
Again, not downloading mystery PDFs from a political propaganda site.
It’s Senator Rand Paul’s site. It’s not a pdf. It’s a website.
You seem to be obsessed with his site and keep coming back to entice others to check it out. Thanks!
LOL Guest.
Further down the list in the #15 spot, the NIH studied Daydreaming for a whopping $2,488,153.
It does raise a question about how far CDFW stretched a carbon reduction issue out of a meadow restoration. Apparently it’s primary goal is “The proposed actions for this project include filling sections of the South Yuba River and Castle Creek to reconnect the meadow floodplain to the streams, increasing the groundwater levels within the meadow. Willow and sedge planting will occur in areas where native plant recruitment is desired. In addition, invasive species removal will occur for reed canary grass and encroaching conifers will be removed along the meadow edges.” In other words take out some plants and trees not wanted and put in others that are wanted. Maybe good for encouraging some native species but greenhouse gases?
Nothing a colony of beavers couldn’t do for free
Slush fund distributions.
Ecosystem is fed a runoff . Still needs feed of elements to make nutrients, before it was exhausted and unbalanced.
I guess the shipping industry has a lot better lobby then the truckers of California do. Putting these small truckers out of business or forcing them to spend $25,000 per truck will surely save the planet. Obviously the environmental industry is better at propaganda then the fellas who actually do the work in this country
They don’t need to do as much propaganda when they have a 99.7% scientific consensus on their side.
Consensus in science means opinions of scientists. (not hard cold fact).
The 99% refers to the percentage out of a certain number. However, the certain number is never reported by the ‘consensus science believers’. The 99.7% could mean that 33 out of 34 scientist’s.
There are many scientists who completely disagree.
100% of scientists disagree with the 99.7% who agreed.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/1069298/the-3-of-scientific-papers-that-deny-climate-change-are-all-flawed/amp/
Correct shak, and they base this 99% on the 34% (funding based “academics” and bureaucrats) that bothered to respond to their original inquiry. The highest estimates are .041% of carbon dioxide (total amount) in the atmosphere and they still don’t know if CO2 precedes or follows warming. It’s called forcing and feedback and I’d bet the farm 90% of Global Warming devotees could articulate its dynamics. There’s no such thing as a consensus in science, and as you stated, there’s only opinions. Follow the money.
Thank you, Divide by Zero (DBZ), for your clarifications on this.
I remember when hundreds of scientists signed petitions against the govt funded ‘consensus’. The 100’s valued integrity in science, while the 34 valued more govt funding.
Like you said, follow the money.
Peabrains don’t need no stinkin’ science: that’s what their crutch called “religion” is for.
Yup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL3HwBN2YqQ
Thanks for sharing this info. It’s reassuring to know that some efforts are being made to bring nature back where we’ve nearly destroyed it.
I applaud you for putting up with all the antisocial cranks who clearly love to hang out in your neck of the woods. I bet you’ve learned to ignore the majority of commenters here. Keep on sharing!
The scam continues. Want to know what this will accomplish? Nothing, zero, zip, nada, but a gaggle of bureaucrats clad in yellow vests and wellies banging about the wetlands with clipboards, and a head full of self righteousness. Want to make a real difference, start a public awareness program to address the 44 million “disposable” diapers that are chucked into bins every day. That’s right, 44-50 million a day in the U.S., and despite the hundreds of billions spent on sewage disposal and treatment they think it’s OK to throw their kid’s crap in the trash for someone else to deal with. Just think, you could save a bundle of money using cloth diapers and end up with a well washed cloth to polish your Prius.
You are absolutely correct. There is land fill in Milpitas that puts off so much methane gas that the city of Fremont smells like a dump (which it is). How many diapers are causing this?
We managed to reverse damage to the ozone by banning CFCs. What makes you trust industry more than scientist about global warming?
I hate the smell of baby human shit. Makes me wanna hurl.
The ego of us humans. Silly. Silly. Earth will keep on keepin on. Thank you Madre earth.
The ego of us humans makes the question whether we will keep on keepin on.