Public Policy
West Virginia state issues
A mix of news items on mountaintop
removal, valley fill regulations, etc. from November-December '03.
Forest legacy program
Mountaintop Removal
Click here for
a link to the award-winning series on Mountaintop Removal by the Charleston
Gazette.
Native Plant Conservation Campaign
The West Virginia Native Plant Society is an affiliate of the Native
Plant Conservation Campaign (NPCC), being spearheaded by the California
Native Plant Society. The goals of the campaign include greater protection
for native plants under the Endangered Species Act, and a boost in the
number of professional botanists in federal and state agencies.
Click here for news from the Native Plant
Conservation Campaign. You will find a wealth of information and links to
public policy sites where you can comment on regulations, or just
peruse.
Click here to view the
four-color brochure which describes the NPCC initiative.
Click http://cnps.org/NPCC/ for the
NPCC website.
Invasive Species
Click here for more invasive species news
and information.
Click
here to read the guidelines on invasive species adopted in April by the
international Convention on Biological Diversity. See below for more about
Convention and its activities.
Global Plant Conservation Strategy
The Convention on Biological Diversity adopted a Global Plant
Conservation Strategy at its April meeting in The Hague. Click here
to read the strategy.
NPCC worked with U.S. conservation groups and with
U.S. representatives to the Conference of Parties (the U.S. has not ratified
the Convention on Biological Diversity, but participates as a non-signatory
nation) to lobby for adoption of the strategy. The Strategy is historic in
that it includes quantitative - although non-binding - targets for
conservation with a timeline for their attainment. This strategy provides a
tangible framework for native plant conservation work and with concrete, and
internationally accepted, objectives to work towards in our regions, States,
and with agencies.
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