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2012 Newsletters |
- March: WSWC Hold Spring Meeting; WaterSMART Program Funds Studies of Water Supplies and River Environments in Five Western Water Basins; USDA Publishes Final Forest Planning Rule.
- February: Colorado River Water Science Stakeholders Roundtable; WestFAST Releases 2011 Accomplishments Report; NOAA's National Water Center Coming to Alabama; North Idaho’s Yellowdog Creek Nursed Back to Health by Local, State and Federal Partnership.
- January: USFS Releases Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Forest Planning Rule; EPA Releases 2010-2011 Highlights of Progress Implementing the National Water Program Climate Change Strategy; USDA Announces Disaster Assistance to Produces and Communities in 33 States and Puerto Rico; National Strategy Proposed to Respond to Climate Change’s Impacts on Fish, Wildlife, and Plants.
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2011 Newsletters |
- December: Partnerships in the Colorado River Basin Demonstrate the Promise of the WaterSMART Program; EPA Federal-State Partnership Helps Water Managers Plan for Climate Change; Bringing Desalinization and Renewable Energy Together; WestFAST and WSWC Release New Water Use Data Exchange Web Site.
- November: EPA releases final Pesticides General Permit (PGP); FGDC releases prototype mapping application; WestFAST kicks-off support for WSWC water Infomration and Data Subcommittee.
- October: WSWC holds fall meeting; DOI releases report evaluating existing water monitoring and modeling systems; EPA announces schedule to develop natural gas wastewater standards; NASA holds meeting on remote sensing and evapotranspiration.
- September: USGS releases new nutrient science; EPA releases report on incorporating climate change into the land-use decision making process; NASA's Aquarius yields first map of ocean salinity.
- August: USFS Releases Watershed Condition Framework Map; DOE Advisory Committee Releases Draft Hydraulic Fracturing Recommendations; CA and NV Agree to Roadmap to Improve Clairity of Lake Tahoe; WSWC Sends Letter to Congress Regarding EPA SRF Funding.
- July: WSWC Summer Meeting; Mountain West Water Institute Inaugural Workshop; WGA Newly Adopted Water Management Policies.
- June: WGA and NOAA sign MOU on Climate Services; CEQ releases draft National Action Plan on Water; USFS releases framework to improve nation's watersheds; New WestFAST Chair and Vice-Chair.
- May: USGS, NOAA, USACE Sign MOU; DOE Surpases Clean-up Targets; USFWS Releases Endangered Species Work Plan; Forest Service Forest Planing Rule.
- April: WSWC Spring Meeting; Release of Reclamation Secure Water Act Report; EPA/USACE CWA Guidance; NASA Evapotranspiration and Drought meetings.
- March: WSWC vists DC; Preparing for WSWC Spring meeting; WGA Forest Restoration Policy; EPA Mercury from Power Plants Proposed Rule.
- February: Great Basin LCC; WaterSMART Clearinghouse; Upper Colorado NIDIS Meeting; USACE State Water Planning summaries.
- January: WestFAST releases Water Availability Studies Inventory; WSWC passes resolution on pesticides; USACE and Reclamation publish climate report.
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2010 Newsletters |
- December: Report out on October 2010 WSWC meeting; report out on November 2010 Symposium; liaison transition.
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