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Beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate, whether the challenge is drought or floods

Published today in The Conversation.
Beavers in our landscapes have great potential to provide small-scale adaptations to climate change – if humans can figure out how to live with them.

January 20, 2022
Grant Opportunity Culvert Replacement Municipal Assistance Grant Program

The Division of Ecological Restoration (DER), Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game, is seeking proposals from Massachusetts municipalities interested in replacing an undersized, perched, and/or degraded culvert located in an area of high ecological value. 

February 20, 2018
RiverSmart in the news

RiverSmart Communities has recently been profiled in two local pieces, the first as part of a series documenting our work on Greenfield Community TV, and the second by WGBY.  All four pieces are linked here in chronological order.  These include interviews with Geosciences Professors Eve Vogel and Christine Hatch, and Postdoctoral Researcher John Gartner.

June 15, 2017
Funding Available for Culvert Replacement

The Division of Ecological Restoration has funding available for Massachusetts municipalities for field data collection for a degraded or undersized culvert located in an area of high value for fish and wildlife habitat and for which replacement would benefit community and ecological storm resiliency.

January 4, 2017
RiverSmart Project in the News!
December 2, 2016
New grant from the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative to help create a regionally consistent assessment of river corridors across the North Atlantic states

RiverSmart researchers Christine Hatch and John Gartner have embarked on a new project, described in a UMass news release.

See our web page for more details

October 7, 2016
Policy report highlighting five recommendations released

Dr. Eve Vogel released an 83-page report she wrote with several cooperators to help New England’s communities and their residents, as well as the governments that serve them, to better deal with and adjust to riverfloods.

August 31, 2016
Vermont's solution to flood damage

Read or listen to this January 1, 2016 Vermont NPR story on how Vermont is preventing floods and erosion by letting its rivers take their own path.

January 7, 2016

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