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• -Joe Hutto, Illumination in the Flatwoods -- Video: My Life as a Turkey  Watch Nature Online - PBS

• NEWS: A temporary moratorium has been placed on gas drilling in Bucks and Montgomery  phillyburbs.com

• Action Notices ... if you agree you can:  Sign a petition to repeal ACT 13:  signon.org

• NY Times: Learning Too Late of Perils in Gas Well

• Fracking Alert: Local Ordinances Limiting Where to Drill Will be Voided if House Bill 1950 Passes!
  
  Call to Action (How to Call, Write, Email Today)

• Lynn Island Cleanup - Photo album

• Too many weather records broken in a few years to be explained by normal variation says
  Glenn Schwartz, meteorologist 

• Philadelphia City Council unanimously passes resolution to sue DRBC, demand impact studies, forbid fracking for now

• Electricity Shopping Guide OCA

• SAVE THE DELAWARE!
  
  The Delaware River is facing the gravest & most immediate threat in its history.  A plan to allow 20,000 facked gas wells in the upper Delaware could be passed by the Delaware River Basin Commission on ... DATE CHANGED and yet to be announced. 
  
  See for how to Take action and stop it here!
  
  Provides numbers to call, date for the Trenton protest, and an excellent video describing what's at stake.

• FEMA Flood Related Information and Assistance
   
  Citizens should contact FEMA for general flood related assistance.
  FEMA emergency number: 1-800-621-FEMA
  EPA Website  | FEMA Website

• Readers debate future of New Hope quarry
  www.phillyburbs.com

• The invasion of the ash borers
  Phillyburbs.com By Christina Kristofic 
  
  “Ecologically speaking, you don’t ever want to lose not even a single species, much less an entire genus of trees.”

• DEP to make gas wells near high quality streams go through full permitting process pennlive.com

• Shale drilling fines drop under Corbett post-gazette.com

• Stink bugs bothering you? Delaware Twp. man invents a trap you can make  nj.com

• Nockamixon Ground Water Alerts:

  • Nockamixon residents fear water contamination http://www.phillyburbs.com

  • PA-DEP alert: Well water testing in our region  PDF

  • PA-DEP Accredited Laboratories for Water Testing dep.state.pa.us pdf (fixed)

• Current Carbon Dioxide Emission Higher Than It Was Just Before Ancient Episode of Severe Global Warming ScienceDaily

• Spread of Invasive Ladybugs Explained Sciencedaily.com

• Hidden Elm Population May Hold Genes to Combat Dutch Elm Disease sciencedaily.com
  
  American elms once lined the country's streets and dominated eastern forests until they succumbed by the millions after Dutch elm disease arrived in the United States in 1931.

• DCNR: Landscaping with Native Plants brochure PDF

• Deer Control Tips / Resistant Plants PDF / Web

• Engaging the public in biodiversity issues
  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105 http://bit.ly/fVwjP3

• Electric Transmission Corridor?
  
  On February 1, 2011, the 9th Circuit Court ruled in our favor, effectively eliminating the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest designations. conserveland.org

• Death in the Bat Caves: Disease Wiping out Hibernating Bats
  ScienceDaily (Feb 2011)

Resources

General

• Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners - Cornell

Water Testing

• PA-DEP Accredited Laboratories for Water Testing dep.state.pa.us pdf (fixed)

• Private well testing GroundWater.org 

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Recycling

• Bucks County Recycle Hazardous Household Waste - Where and When | Dropoffs

• EPA Homeowners Guide to Septic Systems epa.gov pdf

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Stream and Habitat

• Stream Side Management Tips PDF

• PA Water resource
  
  http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/sfrmp/water.htm   

• What is the importance of Streamside Buffers?
  
  http://www.edf.org/documents/2758_NCbuffers.pdf 
  
  Riparian corridors are “buffers of trees, shrubs and grass along waterways.”
  
  Conserving streamside buffers is socially valuable, economically viable and ecologically necessary. It costs more and takes longer to restore water quality than to protect it in the first place. Modest rules to protect narrow buffers can be fair to landowners, while preserving clean water for the entire state.

• Delaware Spring Flooding Risk | Riegelsville

• PA Vernal Pool Identification Guide dcnr.pdf

• Wetland Grants Database - WGD

• Water Vital to Energy Future

  By Erica Gies  "Water and energy form two vital pillars that hold up our economy and our lives. Unfortunately, they are inextricably intertwined: Destabilize one and you could threaten the other."
   

• The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands
  
  http://iowa.sierraclub.org/Steve-Sierra%20web%20docs0526/WhereRiversAreBorn.pdf

• VALUING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - TOWARD BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION–MAKING
  
  Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies
  
  NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11139&page=1

• SIGNIFICANT NATURAL AREAS
  
  Bucks County contains a diversity of unique natural features. T...
   
  http://hilltown.org/pacc/Report/Section V - Significant Natural Areas.pdf 

• A NATURAL AREAS INVENTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA Update -- 1999 
  
  http://www.gis.dcnr.state.pa.us/   pdf  

• Could Nockamixon become a 'pocket of freedom'?
  An EAC initiative/ goal for 2011?
  Please watch this video earthship.com
  
  and check out the web site; earthship.com
  
  I think it would be good for the Planning C., EAC, and Supervisors to see. It is most interesting!
  
  The FUN stuff;
  Have a look at the building; earthship.com
  Scroll down at the site for great photos!

• PA Soil resource
  
  http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/sfrmp/soils.htm 

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Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)

• See also our Fracking topic page

• About wikipedia.org

• Hydraulic Fracturing 101

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Invasive Species

• See also our Invasive Species Topic Page

• Why Should You Care About Invasive Plants?
  http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/definitions/impact.php

• Grasping at the routes of biological invasions:
  a framework for integrating pathways into policy
  
  "Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, *corridor* and unaided." 
  
  "Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, corridor and unaided."
  
  http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/docs/integrating_ias_pathways.pdf  

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Township Issues

• Nockamixon Township complaints   nockamixontownship.org/

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News Archive

• Gallows Run - Water Quality Standards Review Stream Re-designation Evaluation DEP
  
  More work to do!

• Browse our updated Environment and
  Township Resource page

• Uranium in Groundwater? 'Fracking' Mobilizes Uranium in Marcellus Shale
  
  Steven writes: The important information is that uranium should be added to the list of compounds to be tested (by a PA DEP certified lab) in preparation before the gas drilling occurs. This would apply to wells and to streams. See my article in Upper Bucks Future 2009 issue pdf

• Annual Members meeting See CAL

• Gas drillers give up the fight in Nockamixon! Phillyburg

• EPA to Study Chemicals Used to Tap Natural Gas nytimes.com

• Nockamixon zoning upheld by Bucks County Court http://bit.ly/cbnTvQ

• REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL CANCER RISK What We Can Do Now http://bit.ly/bAe3hu 

• Pennsylvania Vernal Pool Identification Guide dcnr.pdf

• Panel to address water problems

• Nockamixon Township Wants Answers on Landfill

• Energy Industry Reps Greet House Fracking Probe With Shrug

• Census Maps

• Violations: HANSON AGGREGATES OTTSVILLE QUARRY

• Action alert from Sierra Club: Help us tighten the regulations for gas drillers

• Artists for Conservation PDF

• GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ASSESSMENT ... RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP IN BUCKS COUNTY, PA PDF
  
  "The outcome of this study is consistent with a potential for deep groundwater recharge of not more than one or two inches per year; equivalent to less than 5% of annual precipitation."

• Springfield Township Issues Notice of Violation to PPL  sbulu.org

• Tree Squad: leading a community-based initiative called 1000 Trees

• DCNR Conservation Volunteer Application - Volunteer