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Archived ACJV Newsletters

2011

Volume 10, Number 2, August 2011

  • NAWCA Grants Recommended in ACJV
  • Audubon's Atlantic Flyway Initiative
  • North Carolina Coastal Federation, the ACJV and the Onslow Bight: For the birds (and the alligators, bears, fish, hunters, kayakers, and fishermen)!
  • ACJV Partner Receives national Wetland Award
  • Bird habitat Joint Ventures and Landscape Conservation Cooperatives: Distinct and Complementary Programs Playing a Critical Role in Conservation
  • Workshop on Marine Bird Science and Offshore Wind
  • Gulf of Maine Coastal Program Receives 2011 John S. Gottschalk Partnership Award
  • ACJV Management Board Transitions

Volume 9, Number 1, March 2011

  • Coastal Grants Approved in ACJV
  • NAWCA Grants Approved in ACJV
  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the Tallahassee Area Lakes Aquatic Habitat Project y
  • Marine Bird Cooperative Meeting, February 24-25, 2011, Portland Maine
  • ACJV Staff and Partners Collaborate to Develop a Managed Lands Database
  • Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring Update
  • ACJV Management Board and Staff Transitions
  • Grant Deadlines and Upcoming Meetings

2010

Volume 8, Number 3, November 2010

  • NAWCA Grants Approved in ACJV
  • Atlantic and Great Lakes Sea Duck Migration Study
  • Eastern Painted Bunting Working Group Completes Three Year Study
  • Protected Marine Species Study: A Partnership in Action
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Migratory Bird Florida/Caribbean Field Office Under New Leadership
  • North Carolina Partners Program – Influencing Conservation at Multiple Scales
  • Integrated Waterbird Management and Monitoring Update
  • Get Reaquainted with the ACJV Staff-Our Roles and Responsibilities
  • Climate Scientist Named Appalachian LCC Coordinator
  • Grant Deadlines and Upcoming Meetings

Volume 8, Number 2, July 2010

  • NAWCA Grants Approved in ACJV and Highlights
  • Joint Venture Staff Respond to Gulf Oil Spill
  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Funding in the ACJV
  • Actions Underway in the Delaware Bay
  • Impacts and Conservation Strategies Related to Climate Change in the ACJV: State and Regional Vulnerability Assessments in the Northeast
  • Transitions in the ACJV
  • Grant Deadlines and Upcoming Meetings

Volume 8, Number 1, March 2010 (This is the first newsletter of new web based format)

  • Seven Coastal Wetlands Grants Awarded in the Atlantic Coast Joint Venture
  • Three Additional North American Wetland Conservation Act Grants Recommended for Approval in ACJV
  • Joint Venture Board Meets to Review Conservation Science and LCCs
  • Impacts and Conservation Strategies Related to Climate Change in the ACJV: Assessing Landscape Change in the South Atlantic
  • Northwest Atlantic Marine Bird Conservation Cooperative Updates
  • Partnership Focus:  Montezuma Wetlands Complex
  • Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Joint Venture Habitat Restoration and Protection Request for Proposals
  • Grants, Deadlines and Upcoming Meetings

2009

Volume 7, Number 4, November 2009

  • NAWCA Grants Approved in ACJV and Highlights
  • Conserving the Wet Prairies of North Florida
  • Science Funding Supports Bird Conservation Work in the ACJV
  • Part II in a Climate Change Series: Mountaintop Spruce Fir Forests
  • ACJV Strategic Plan Update
  • New ACJV Management Board Members
  • Partners Receive Coastal America Award
  • Grant Deadlines and Upcoming Meetings

Volume 7, Number 3, July 2009

  • Grant Programs Bolster Bird Conservation in the ACJV
  • Head of the Estuaries Partnership
  • Saving Dirt Along Virginia's Rappahannock River
  • President Obama Issues Executive Order on Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration
  • Joint Venture Bill Considered by House Natural Resource Committee
  • Impacts and Conservation Strategies Related to Climate Change in the ACJV: Sea Level Rise
  • Departing Members

Volume 7, Number 2, May, 2009

  • Thirty-four North American Wetland Conservation Act Grants Receive Approval in ACJV
  • Partnerships Define The Nature Conservancy’s Work in the Winyah Bay and Pee Dee River Basin in 2008
  • Joint Venture Bill Introduced in Congress
  • Southeast Quail Study Group Becomes national Bobwhite Technical Committee
  • National Wild Turkey Federation Unveils The Wild Turkey Management Plan
  • National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Announces Two New Keystone Initiatives
  • Bicknell's Thrush Conservation Planning Moves Forward
  • Partnering to Protect Shorebirds and Seabirds in Florida
  • Florida Scrub-jay Conservation
  • ACJV Committee Member Receives National Award
  • NABCI Produces Farm Bill Guide
  • Upcoming Meetings and Deadlines

Volume 7, Number 1, February, 2009

  • Nine Coastal Wetlands Grants Awarded in the ACJV
  • Nine Additional NAWCA Grants Recommended for Approval in the ACJV
  • Francis Beidler Forest: Protecting and Enhancing Old Growth Forest in South Carolina's Four Holes Swamp
  • Open Space Institute Launches Two New England Initiatives
  • Conservation Plan for Spruce Grouse Published
  • Cerulean Warbler and Golden-winged Warbler Working Groups Meet for a Bird Conservation Conference in South America
  • Bicknell's Thrush Conservation Planning Moves Forward
  • Birds on (Shrinking) Mountaintops
  • The Northeast Bird Monitoring Handbook
  • Arctic Goose JV Plan Update
  • New Oil Spill Funds for NAWCA
  • Upcoming Meetings and Deadline

2008

Volume 6, Number 4, November, 2008

  • Nine North American Wetland Conservation Act Grants Approved in ACJV
  • Red-cockaded Woodpecker Reintroduction's within the ACE Basin of South Carolina
  • Update on the Florida Bird Conservation Initiative: Implementing "All Bird" Conservation
  • Focus on the (NEW!) Farm Bill in the ACJV
  • Science Funding Supports Bird Conservation Work in the ACJV
  • New Great Bay Website
  • Upcoming Meetings and Deadlines

Volume 6, Number 3, July, 2008

  • Grant Programs Bolster Bird Conservation in ACJV
  • Virginia Bird Conservation Initiative and Landowner Guide to Manage Lands for the Benefit of Birds in the Piedmont of Virginia
  • Search for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker....To Be Continued
  • Cape May Peninsula Partnership
  • Tidal Marsh Bird Research, Monitoring, and Conservation in the New England/Mid-Atlantic Coast BCR
  • Ducks Unlimited Announces Winners of 2008 Wetland Conservation Achievements Awards
  • Ducks Unlimited Announces Virginia Conservationist of the Year
  • In Appreciation of Dr. Judd Howell

Volume 6, Number 2, April, 2008

  • Thirty North American Wetland Conservation Act Grants Receive Approval in Atlantic Coast Joint Venture
  • Joint Venture Management Board Winter Meetings in North Carolina
  • Focus on Early-successional Species: Eastern Towhee
  • Northern Forest Woodcock Initiative Receives Department of Interior’s Cooperative Conservation Award
  • An Independent Evaluation of PIF Landbird Population Objectives
  • Dr. Gwen Brewer, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Receives NABCI Bird Conservation Award

Volume 5, Number 1, January, 2008

  • Coastal Wetland Grants Awarded
  • Nine North American Wetland Conservation Act Grants Recommended for Approval in
    Atlantic Coast Joint Venture
  • Modeling Waterfowl Habitat Needs During Migration
  • National Park Service (Southeast Region) Provides Avian Conservation Implementation Plans
  • Bottomland Hardwood Forest Series: Little Blue Heron
  • International Bicknell’s Thrush Conservation Group Launched
  • Federal Duck Stamp Program

2007

Volume 4, Number 4, October, 2007

  • Two NAWCA Grants Approved
  • ACJV Partnership Receives Multistate Conservation Grant for Conservation Design
  • New England/Mid-Atlantic Coast Bird Conservation Region Plan Approved
  • ACJV Welcomes Three New Board Members
  • Formation of Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture
  • Bottomland Hardwood Forest Series:  Wood Duck
  • Fish Habitat Partnership Underway in ACJV Area
  • Building Better Linkages Between Waterfowl Harvest & Habitat Management
  • ACJV Partners Organize Early Successional Habitat Workshops in New England
  • Strong Partnerships Working for Migratory Birds in Virginia’s Eastern Shore

Volume 4, Number 3, July, 2007

  • Grant Programs Bolster Bird Conservation in ACJV
  • Bottomland Hardwood Forest Series: Rusty Blackbirds:  Understanding the Decline & Taking Action and Swallow Tailed Kite
  • Seabird Die-off in the Atlantic
  • Connecticut Launches Grassland Habitat initiative
  • Ducks Unlimited Receives Conservation Award
  • Changes in ACJV Management Board Chair

Volume 4, Number 2, April, 2007

  • Twenty-five NAWCA Grants Receive Approval in ACJV
  • ACJV Management Board & IBCC Committee Hold Winter Meetings in Puerto Rico
  • Puerto Rico Gap Analysis Project:  Assessing Biodiversity & Conservation in Puerto Rico
  • Scientists to Take Stock of the Decline of the Rusty Blackbird
  • Cerulean Warbler Technical Group Holds Workshop
  • World Series of Birding Team to Support Cerulean Warbler Conservation
  • Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Receives NABCI Award

Volume 4, Number 1, January, 2007

  • Coastal Wetland Grants Awarded
  • NAWCA Grant Recommended for Approval in ACJV
  • Florida All Bird Biologist Hired
  • Appalachian Mountains BCR Coordinator Hired
  • South Carolina Partnership Launches Into Second Year of Searching for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
  • The Congaree-Wateree-Santee Basin Initiative: A Commitment to Conserve the Critical South Carolina Midlands Area
  • Draft Mid-Atlantic/New England/Maritimes Waterbird Conservation Plan Available
  • New Analysis of Shorebirds Survey Shows Declining Trend in Northeast

2006

Volume 3, Number 2, Septmeber, 2006

  • Eleven NAWCA Grants Approved in ACJV
  • Final Projects Approved for ACJV Utilizing Oil Spill Fines in Buzzards Bay, MA
  • Northeast Coordinated Bird Monitoring Workshop
  • PIF Conservation Design Workshop
  • Northeast Projects Funded Through the State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Support Program
  • Conserving the Altamaha River Basin
  • New Evidence Suggests Ivory-billed Woodpecker Persist in Florida
  • Sudden Wetland Dieback Along the Atlantic Coast
  • Longtime ACJV Partner Dave Odell Retires

Volume 3, Number 1, April, 2006

  • Twenty-four NAWCA Grants Receive Final Approval in ACJV
  • ACJV Management Board and IBCC Hold Winter Meetings
  • The South Carolina Ivory-billed Woodpecker Working Group
  • The Atlantic Marine Bird Conservation Cooperative
  • Partners in Southern Maine Target Grant Programs to Protect Highest Priority Bird Habitat

2005

Volume 2, Number 4, December, 2005

  • Coastal Wetland Grants Awarded
  • Two Additional NAWCA Grants Recommended for Approval in ACJV
  • IAFWA Grants for Bird Conservation
  • Partnership Profile: The Blackbird-Millington River Corridor Project
  • Species Profile: Painted Bunting
  • Painted Bunting Conservation Initiative
  • Partners in Action:  The South Carolina Lowcounty Initiative

Volume 2, Number 3, September, 2005

  • Nine NAWCA Grants Receive Final Approval in ACJV
  • ACJV Holds Summer Meetings in Bar Harbor, Maine: Approves Waterfowl Implementation Plan & BCR Plans
  • ACJV & EHJV Have Joint Board Meeting
  • Integrated Bird Conservation Planning Begins in the Piedmont (BCR 29)
  • New Conservation Coalition Formed in New York, The Saint Lawrence Plain
  • Species Profile:  The Atlantic Brant
  • In Appreciation of Frank Montabalno
  • Craig Watson, ACJV, Receives Award

Volume 2, Number 2, July, 2005

  • NAWCA Council Meets in New Hampshire, Approves Nine Grants in ACJV
  • Five Neotropical Grants Receive Final Approval in ACJV
  • Quaternary Tract Dedication:  Landscape Level Conservation Celebrated
  • Third Largest Forest Conservation Easement in U.S. History: The Downeast Lakes Forestry Partnership
  • New Jersey Congressman Steve Rothman Receives National Great Blue Heron Award
  • Searching for the Rarest Songbird in North America:  The Bachman’s Warbler
  • Waterfowl Population Survey’s: 50 Years & Still Counting
  • Tribute to the Late Robert Williams, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
Volume 2, Number 1, April, 2005
  • Nineteen NAWCA Grants Receive Final Approval in ACJV
  • Forest Service Southern Region & ACJV Receives Wings Across the Americas Award
  • Assessing Bird & Bat Migration Over the Appalachian Ridges: Developing an Information Database to Evaluate Wind Power Development
  • Partnership for Protecting Migratory Birds & Their Habitats on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
  • Bob Miller, Great Bay Project Director for The Nature Conservancy Retires

2004

Volume 1, Number 3, December, 2004

  • Twelve NAWCA Grants Receive Final Approval in ACJV
  • Coastal Wetland Grants Awarded
  • Transportation Company Sentenced to Pay $7 Million Fine into NAWCA Funds for Buzzards bay
  • New Partnership Emerging in Puerto Rico
  • Partnership Profile: The Onslow Bight
  • ACJV Hosts New England/Mid-Atlantic Bird Conservation Workshop
  • Staff News
  • Joint Meeting with EHJV Planned

Volume 1, Number 2, July, 2004

  • 2004 NAWCA Small Grants Awarded
  • Grant for Red Knot Conservation
  • Partner Profile:  Ace Basin
  • From the Science Corner
  • Bird Conservation Region News
  • National Wetlands Award
  • ACJV Board & Staff News
Volume 1, Number 1, February, 2004

  • NAWCA Grants Approved in Six ACJV States
  • Coastal Wetland Grants Awarded
  • Project Profile: Great Bay Estuary
  • Science News
  • Staff News

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