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Do you know what stormwater is?? 💧 Curby, our stormwater turtle, is an expert! 🐢 His mission is to educate everyone in Kannapolis about stormwater and how it can affect our environment. 🌍 Check out what Curby has to say about stormwater and his tips on how to keep our environment clean.

Meandering Mondays with Water Are we, as the water stewardship community, at the start of a new phase of transition and are we ready to embrace this transition? Since the start of 2023, there has been a growing dialogue around how do we scale up collective action in basins and move beyond individual and incremental improvements on water within operations. The dialogues have been useful to broaden the socialization of collective action and bring new (by no means all!) voices to the table – so definitely very needed…but… Last week’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings represented the 4th major event this year where the need for scaling up collective action was “discussed”. In that time water challenges have continued to grow…so how do we rapidly convert this momentum into action (rather than more talk) and are we as a community ready to embrace a rapid transition from talk to action? Thoughts Will Sarni, Alexis Morgan and Scott McCready? https://lnkd.in/gqd4Yx99 Stuart Orr Richard Lee Sarah Wade Ariane Laporte-Bisquit Tom Freyberg Adrian Sym Jason Morrison Gregg Brill

Get your Early Bird tickets! 🎉 Early Bird pricing ends Nov 17th! Please join us for the 79th Annual Truck Loggers Association Convention & Trade Show 2024! January 17-19, 2024 at Westin Bayshore | Vancouver, BC, Canada This years theme is Solutions From Our Forests Climate change, wildfire mitigation, First Nations reconciliation, innovation, competitiveness, carbon sequestration, certainty, diversification, and strong communities are top of mind for everyone in the forest industry and beyond. Government has tasked the forest industry with providing solutions to tackle these and other important topics for a brighter forestry future. In response, this year’s convention, themed “Solutions From Our Forests” will bring the forest sector together to demonstrate its resiliency and continued ability to lead the way in providing solutions to these concerns as well. Our forests are part of the solution for BC’s strong economy and its communities. Today and for generations to come. Register for early bird pricing here: https://lnkd.in/gsWwuFdW

DWD Longhorns raises heritage Texas Longhorn cattle on Audubon-certified bird friendly land, recognizing that birds are an indicator species relevant to their own activities. This is an important conversation on weather, water, regenerative ranching, and expert land management. Why prioritize diverse ecological activity and the health of non-human neighbors? Learn more about the positive and interconnected aspects of wellbeing here: https://lnkd.in/ehdZtpzU

“Animal Exploitation has resulted in significant repercussions on the earth’s climate, water, and natural habitats, and contributes greatly to zoonotic pandemics” hence it has a big impact on the achievement of the achievement of the SDGs. This is one crucial reason why we need to add SDG 18 – Zero Animal Exploitation to the existing 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover – “The references that do exist in regard to animals, can be found under SDG 14 – Life Below Water, and SDG 15 – Life on Land. However, while SDG 15 advocates for the restoration of habitats and the reduction of deforestation, it does not recognize the animal agriculture industry (in particular grazing for cows raised for beef and livestock feed crops), as one of the primary causes of deforestation. Nor that it leads to excessive greenhouse gas emissions, scarcity-weighted water usage, land degradation, and nutrient pollution amongst other negative effects.” Check Tobias Leenaert post to learn more!

Read about what Pacific Forest Trust achieved in 2023 from major #conservation gains and historic policy advancements to being featured in an award-winning film. Thanks to the support of people like you 2023 was a successful year- https://lnkd.in/gCPPcCRY Together we are having a real impact and you can now triple your impact for #forests with a gift to PFT given by year-end: https://lnkd.in/gS4-xHMX

Our friends at TID, MID and SFPUC picked a great organization (River Partners) to help them restore needed aquatic habitat in the Tuolumne River. And it goes without saying that this habitat will be designed to optimize the benefits of flows in the river. Flows that are too high can create problems for fish in the river, by reducing their refugia and other critical rearing habitat. On the American River, we and our colleagues in the Water Forum developed a flow management standard for Reclamation to use to achieve that "sweet spot" of flow that optimizes spawning and rearing habitat. https://lnkd.in/gwZNwMBv

Check out our article on Bronson Mack and Western Water Providers’ pledge to cut water demand from the Colorado River from our July/August issue. More than 30 water agencies in the Colorado River basin—including big wholesale providers such as the Central Arizona Project and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California—have signed on to a recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) that commits them to actions that increase reuse and recycling and reduce water demands. The MOU outlines best-practice measures such as replacing nonfunctional grass and promoting the installation of water-efficient fixtures and appliances. In this interview, Municipal Water Leader talks with Bronson Mack, the public outreach manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), about the opportunities the MOU provides for saving water. He should know: SNWA’s water conservation programs have helped the booming desert Las Vegas metro area reduce its consumption of Colorado River water by about 30 percent over the last two decades. https://bit.ly/43CAfd2 Page 20