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3/20/2013

March 22 Is World Water Day

Do You Know the Origin of Your Local Drinking Water?

March 22 is World Water Day, and The Nature Conservancy is working to protect our water resources. They have produced the following video about their priorities for water preservation:

Watch this video to hear more about our priorities.

Have you ever wondered where your local drinking water originates? If you have public water supplies, you can call your water company and ask them if your water is drawn from underground aquifers or if it is drawn from local rivers, streams, or reservoirs. If you have well water, you can call your local environmental control agency and ask about the aquifers that lie beneath your property. You may discover that both public and private well water has traveled a great distance to get to your home.

The Nature Conservancy has produced this second video to help you map where your water originates:

http://support.nature.org/site/R?i=Aavr8xOo9Nsshro5CpnwiQ

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3/19/2013

Surfrider Foundation, Delaware Chapter, Requests Volunteers for Dune Grass Planting on Saturday, March 23, 2013

Volunteers are needed! 3/23/2013 9 AM Dune Grass Planting

The Delaware Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation has sent out the following letter requesting assistance in replenishing our beach dunes with sea grass. Join in with this valuable effort to save our Delaware seacoast:

"DNREC is sponsoring a dune grass planting to assist our battered beaches throughout the state. The Delaware Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation wants volunteers to help at the Indian River Inlet, North Side. Specifically, we will be planting in Savages Ditch, about 1/2 mile north of Indian River Inlet. Park at the Savages Ditch Bayside Parking area, and plant on the dunes on the oceanfront. FOR THOSE OF YOU WITH KIDS – THIS WILL REQUIRE WALKING ACROSS ROUTE ONE. This time of year that’s probably not a big deal.

Register with DNREC here but choose Delaware Seashore State Park as your desired planting location
http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/swc/Shoreline/Pages/
BeachGrassPlanting.aspx

Check the Chapter’s Facebook Page for event info and to connect with us.

If anyone has a surf tag, you can drive on the beach right there at Savages Ditch.

Here is a primer on the plant we will be planting. Instructions included http://plants.usda.gov/plantguide/pdf/pg_ambr.pdf

Thanks! We hope to see you there.

Help protect our oceans, waves and beaches. Make a difference and join the
Surfrider Foundation today! Click the link to join:
http://www.surfrider.org/membership?source=CH17 ."

Surfrider Foundation Delaware Chapter
P.O. Box 1114
Millsboro, DE 19966
Email: chair@delaware.surfrider.org
vice-chair@delaware.surfrider.org
Website: www.surfrider.org/delaware

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3/11/2013

The Nature Conservancy Features the Delaware Bayshores in Its Current Electronic Newsletter

Protecting A National Heritage---The Delaware Bayshores

Bowers Beach Along the Western Shores of the Delaware Bay

The Nature Conservancy is a world-wide conservation group that works to protect ecologically important land and water areas for nature and people.

Founded in 1951, it has over one million members and continues to address the most important conservation threats on the largest scale.

Of special interest to everyone living in close proximity to the Delaware Bay, the Nature Conservancy has been working hard to preserve and maintain this national heritage.

Sign-up for its free weekly e-newsletter at www.nature.org and discover the rich array of articles about the Delaware Bay Estuary. One of those articles from the current e-newsletter is featured below:

"Shared by portions of Delaware and New Jersey, the 3,420 square-mile Delaware Bayshores harbors some of the largest concentrations of interesting habitats, and rare plants and animals, on the east coast. More than 100 species of migratory and nesting birds visit portions of this landscape throughout the year, including waterfowl, raptors, shorebirds and songbirds traveling from as far away as South America to destinations in the Canadian Arctic.

"Forested wetlands grace both sides of the bay, and represent the northernmost part of the range for green treefrogs. Numerous species of rare plants also thrive in the Delaware Bayshores, including swamp pink and sensitive joint-vetch. Most of the world's remaining population of seaside alder can be found on the Delmarva Peninsula, making the conservation of this species a high priority in Delaware.

"Unlike much of the North Atlantic Coast, the Delaware Bayshores remain relatively intact. However, residential development, climate change, overfishing, and invasive species have been causing increasing amounts of stress to this landscape. Water quality also suffers from increased sedimentation and paving that comes with development.

"Protecting What Remains: For many years, the Conservancy has worked at individual places throughout the Delaware Bayshores in hopes of capturing and conserving the landscape’s collective biological diversity. At Great Marsh, near Lewes, the Conservancy worked with three neighboring families to establish and protect a 600-acre preserve providing high quality habitat for a wide variety of species, including black duck, teal, osprey, blue crab and fiddler crab. At the nearby 1,364-acre Pemberton Forest Preserve, the Conservancy safeguards Atlantic white cedar swamp forest near the confluence of the Brittingham and Pemberton branches, tributaries of the Broadkill River. The 143-acre Edward H. McCabe Preserve contains a variety of important coastal plain habitats and populations of seaside alder, including more than one mile of river frontage on the Broadkill River.

"Farther north, in Eastern Kent County, the Milford Neck Preserve represents the portion of undeveloped beaches and dunes, tidal marshlands, swamp and upland forests where more than a million migratory shorebirds arrive each spring to feed on eggs laid by horseshoe crabs converging on Delaware Bay beaches. Also in Kent County, tidal saltmarshes and mudflats contained within the 341-acre Port Mahon Preserve provide a sanctuary for numerous species of geese, duck, fish and amphibians. In the Blackbird Millington Corridor, the Conservancy has worked closely with local landowners, conservation partners and the business community to find common goals that will preserve the area’s natural heritage and rural character.

"Preparing For the Future: With climate change becoming a reality, and increasing population and development across the region, the Conservancy has realized that conserving the Delaware Bayshores in the long-term will require reaching beyond the current project area. That’s why the Delaware Chapter, along with colleagues in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, is evaluating the entire Delaware Bay and Basin as part of a multi-state effort dedicated to conserving “integrated landscapes” – areas having an impact on global conservation and in need of collective attention.

"As one of twelve integrated landscapes identified within the Conservancy’s U.S. Conservation region, the Delaware Bay and Basin serves as the focus for staff members from four state programs convening to identify conservation targets, refine strategies, and discuss research and management tools required to conserve this watershed spanning from the Delaware River’s headwaters near Hancock, New York, to the Delaware Bay. This effort involves connecting with partners in places like Brazil and Argentina, where migratory birds spend much of their life cycle. Resources will also be directed towards the Delaware River. As the longest undammed main stem river east of the Mississippi, the Delaware represents an important migratory pathway and spawning area for several species of diadromous fish such as the American eel, American shad, Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon.

"Focusing on “integrated landscapes” makes sense. Conserving entire forests, watersheds or marine ecosystems – regardless of their political boundaries – makes the most of limited human and financial resources, and makes these landscapes more resilient to broader issues like climate change, and overfishing. Stay tuned as we move forward on these efforts to conserve one of Delaware’s most treasured landscapes!"

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3/3/2013

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March 22 Is World Water Day

Do You Know the Origin of Your Local Drinking Water?

Surfrider Foundation, Delaware Chapter, Requests Volunteers for Dune Grass Planting on Saturday, March 23, 2013

Volunteers are needed! 3/23/2013 9 AM Dune Grass Planting

The Nature Conservancy Features the Delaware Bayshores in Its Current Electronic Newsletter

Protecting A National Heritage---The Delaware Bayshores

NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM BY NORENE MOSKALSKI

BARNES AND NOBLE ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF THE NEW ECO-THRILLER NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM
BY AUTHOR NORENE MOSKALSKI

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March 22 Is World Water Day

Do You Know the Origin of Your Local Drinking Water?

Surfrider Foundation, Delaware Chapter, Requests Volunteers for Dune Grass Planting on Saturday, March 23, 2013

Volunteers are needed! 3/23/2013 9 AM Dune Grass Planting

The Nature Conservancy Features the Delaware Bayshores in Its Current Electronic Newsletter

Protecting A National Heritage---The Delaware Bayshores

NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM BY NORENE MOSKALSKI

BARNES AND NOBLE ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF THE NEW ECO-THRILLER NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM BY AUTHOR NORENE MOSKALSKI

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BARNES AND NOBLE ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF THE NEW ECO-THRILLER NOCTURNE, OPUS 1: SEA FOAM
BY AUTHOR NORENE MOSKALSKI