Haiti is Not Katrina

ASFPM joins 30 organizations in a letter urging Congress to pass the long term Farm Bill without cutting conservation programs. Organizations represented: American Farmland Trust American Rivers Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies American Sportfishing Association Association of State Floodplain Managers Chesapeake Bay Foundation Ducks Unlimited Environmental and Energy Study Institute Environmental Defense Fund Izaak…

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Executive Order 13690 and the New Federal Flood Risk Management Standard Explained President Obama on Jan. 30 issued Executive Order 13690 that revises Executive Order 11988 and proposes a new Federal Flood Risk Management Standard. “Since the issuance of Executive Order 11988 38 years ago, we as a nation have learned a lot about floodplain…

NOAA predicts mixed bag of drought, flooding and warm weather for spring Based on the above normal amount of water in the current snowpack and seasonal forecasts of continued above normal precipitation, a potential for exceeding moderate and major river flood levels exists for the Red River of the North, which forms the state line…

Wish you could see the PowerPoints presented at our national conference in Seattle? Not a problem. Click here. ASFPM is making available presentations we have access to (not all presenters chose to share their presentations with us). We will continue to add presentations as they become available. Conference plenary and the ASFPM awards ceremony videos…

Coalition Letter Supporting Presidential Funding Request for 3DEP On May 24, 2016, the Association of State Floodplain Managers, Association of American State Geologists, MAPPS and National Society of Professional Surveyors submitted the following letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies. Read the full letter here. …