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The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and two states entered into a January 8th Consent Decree (“CD”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of...

Requests for pre-proposals for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund are due by April 21, at the start of an annual coastal funding project that will invest $140 million in grants to protect valuable coastal ecosystems.

Conditions in context: snow cover Snow-covered area for the 2021 water year continued to decrease in April after reaching its maximum in mid-February (Figure 1, left). Storms in April increased the snow-covered area from values near the twenty-fifth percentile to near-average conditions. At this time of year, the total snow-covered area for the western United does not significantly vary from other years as most of the shallow snowpack has already melted, leaving snow mostly at higher elevations...

NOAAs new elevation mapping tool is here. It is a nationwide listing of known publicly available high-accuracy topographic and bathymetric source elevation data for the United States and its territories. The inventory provides a single resource for information about all known completed and in-progress broad-area public domain elevation data. The United States Interagency Elevation Inventory raises awareness of and increases access to existing elevation data, thereby reducing data duplication ef...