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US Army Corps Public Notice - July 9, 2008: "Announcement of the Availability of the Corps of Engineers Northcentral/Northeast Regional Supplement to the 1987 Wetland Delineation Manual"

NATURAL RESOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND REGULATION WORKSHOP - REID STATE PARK
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Back by popular demand, MAPSS/MAWS/MASE will again be sponsoring the Natural Resource Identification and Regulation Workshop held last year at Reid State Park in Georgetown, Maine.

A write-up on last year's workshop can be found here: http://www.mapss.org/reid02AUG07.htm

US ARMY CORPS RELEASES FINAL RULE ON COMPENSATORY WETLAND MITIGATION

Federal Register Notice of Final Rule (PDF, 963KB, 232 pages)

NOTE: This is a prepublication version of this Notice of Final Rule that is made available for informational purposes only and should not be cited in lieu of the final published version. The final version of this Notice of Final Rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on April 10, 2008, and may vary from this prepublication version.

Compensatory Mitigation Rule Factsheet (PDF, 632KB, 2 pages)
Questions and Answers (PDF, 87KB, 6 pages)
Army Corps and EPA Improve Wetland and Stream Mitigation – EPA Press Release
Final Environmental Assessment (PDF, 462KB, 134 pages)
Background materials on proposed rule

Tick and Lyme Disease info as presented at the 2008 annual meeting:

Brochure
Tick Submission Form
Tick Management Handbook - www.caes.state.ct.us
Maine Medical Center Vector-Borne Disease Lab - http://www.mmcri.org/lyme/meticks.html

Presentation Materials from the Feb. 07, 2008 MAWS workshop on Rapanos guidance from Ruth Ladd of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:

Final Rulemaking Decision reached on L.D. 1952: An Act to Streamline the Administration of Significant Vernal Pool Habitat Protection

CLICK HERE FOR THE MEMBERSHIP LIST AND PAYMENT STATUS (current as of 29 January 2008)

(If you are not on the list or feel this info is bunk, please send email to membership chair)

The Obligate: MAWS Annual Newsletter, past and present issues available here (click for more info).

Final Exploratory Paper on the Issue of Credentialing Wetland Scientists in Maine (03/02/2007) (click for more info)

(click sticker for more information)

MAWS T-SHIRTS and HATS are here! (click on thumbnails below for larger pic)

No trucker hats or crappy polyester shirts here! For just $12 you too can look like all that in these all-cotton MAWS shirts and hats...

Shirts and hats will be available at all MAWS workshops...Contact a member of the Executive Committee for more info