Page 39 - Us Geologic News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Oil price, Wentworth, Zephyr, Lamprell, Hurricane, Pantheon, Tower. And finally…

Project off Louisiana will double the size of island in wildlife refuge Work has begun off Louisiana on a project to more than double the size of an island in the nation’s second-oldest wildlife refuge. The project will add 400 acres of new habitat for birds and animals on North Breton Island, which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Taylor Pool said currently covers about 290 acres. North Breton Island is at the southern end of the Breton National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt on a 60-mile-long sweep of barrier islands. It’s the only refuge he ...

BP Spill Money to Help Enlarge Louisiana Coast Island, Expand Wildlife Refuge December 28, 2020 Money from the 2010 BP PLC oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is being used to help to expand the size of the U.S. wildlife refuge off Louisiana’s coastline. Work has begun off Louisiana on a project to more than double the size of an island in the nation’s second-oldest wildlife refuge. The project will add 400 acres of new habitat for birds and animals on North Breton Island, which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman Taylor Pool said currently covers abou...

MsCIP completes the restoration of Ship Island December 21, 2020, posted by Zlatan Hrvacevic After 10 years of planning and executing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District’s Mississippi Coastal Improvements Program (MsCIP) completed the second largest restoration project in the history of the National Park Service, the restoration of Ship Island. Ship Island, a barrier island on the western tip of Gulf Islands National Seashore, 10 miles off the coast of Mississippi, serves as an important as a first line of defense protecting the Mississ...

Illegal shooting of protected animals more common than thought Christine Peterson © Photograph by Michael Forsberg, National Geographic Image Collection A third of long-billed curlews researchers were monitoring at a conservation area in southwestern Idaho were shot dead illegally. On the first day of a new project to study the long-billed curlew, North America’s largest shorebird, ornithologist Jay Carlisle came across something upsetting: a dead curlew with a bullet hole through his head. It was 2009, and populations of the knobby-kneed bird with an eight-inch beak were ...