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Kids Hunger Coalition
There are many ways to describe a community â landscape, economic drivers, educational, cultural, and outdoor opportunities, and its citizensâ health and well-being. The Kids Hunger Coalition are Helena-area professionals who believe our childrenâs health and access to nutritious food are paramount to our collective well-being.
In 2013 a diverse team of professionals came together to find ways to lessen food security gaps in our community and ensure children do not go hungry. Our mission is to eliminate childhood hunger in Lewis & Clark County. We believe this is a problem we can solve.
Hunger can affect a childâs life in so many ways:
A Wood Stork Colony
We are all connected by the environment we share. The Earth is our home. This is the space where we share the environmental stories that caught our attention this week, in Florida and beyond.
It’s Wood Stork nesting season! That’s good news, but the birds seem to be nesting in lower numbers than in previous years. The drying swamp could be one of the reasons Corkscrew continues to be drier than it should be thanks to canals that drain it. Learn more at the Naples Daily News and Audubon Florida.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is encouraging recreational boaters get educated by taking a boater education class Who wants boaters hitting manatee, after all? Learn more at https://myfwc.com/boating/safety-education/.
The Trump administration had claimed the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act barred the intentional hunting of birds, not unintentional deaths caused by industrial activities.
(CN) The Biden administration voided a Trump-era legal opinion Monday regarding migratory birds and protections that have been in place for over a century.
The Department of Interior reversed legal interpretation by its former top lawyer Daniel Jorjani in 2017 that parties could not be held responsible for the accidental deaths of birds, even in deaths related to a chemical spill, oil and gas operations, power lines or wind turbines.
The Trump administration argued the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, passed in 1918, meant to cover the intentional hunting of migratory birds and was not intended to hold industry and private actors responsible for unintentional deaths.
Image credit: Dawn Uhl-Zifilippo/WDET
The state park’s rare wet mesic forest is meant to regularly fluctuate between wet and dry conditions and right now, that’s not happening and it’s causing some problems.
As temperatures slowly climb back up throughout Southeast Michigan, officials at Belle Isle State Park in Detroit are trying to get ahead of some of the flooding issues on the island.
Amy Emmert is the Director of Education for the Belle Isle Conservancy. She says the island is home to the largest remaining wet mesic forest in Michigan. This particular kind of ecosystem is meant to go back and forth between being wet and dry, but with flooding and increased precipitation, Emmert tells WDET’s Annamarie Sysling that new measures must be taken to preserve the island habitat.