January 30, 2024
Workshop Explores Benefits of Integrated Watershed Management Planning
By News Editor
NAWM – ASFPM workshop focuses on integrating natural hazard mitigation and Clean Water Act planning.
March 8, 2023
Drought to Deluge: Managing Water for Climate Extremes
By Tara Lohan
California’s recent floods show that we aren’t ready for the bigger storms that climate change will bring.
March 3, 2023
National Coastal Resilience Fund is Accepting Proposals
By News Editor
NFWF expects to invest approximately $140 million in grants to support nature-based coastal resilience solutions. Pre-proposals are due April 12, 2023.
December 7, 2022
NFWF, NOAA Announce Record $136 Million for Coastal Resilience
By News Editor
The grants will help coastal communities plan, design and implement resilience projects that will reduce risks from rising sea levels and more intense storms.
September 6, 2022
NFWF and NOAA Announce $7.7 Million in Conservation Grants to Support Coastal Resilience Projects
By News Editor
The grants will support the design and implementation of projects to enhance the resilience of coastal communities in seven states.
August 10, 2022
ASFPM Joins Coalition in Recommendations for USACE Water Resources Planning
By News Editor
ASFPM joined a coalition of 83 organizations in a letter to the US Army Corps of Engineers on recommendations for water resources principles, requirements, and guidelines (PR&G), environmental justice, and tribal policies.
October 2, 2021
New International Guidelines for Nature-Based Flood Risk Management Solutions
By News Editor
International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management provide practitioners with information for planning, design, engineering, construction, and maintenance.
June 30, 2020
Call for Nominations: ASBPA 2020 Best Restored Shores Award
By News Editor
The American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) is calling for nominations for its Best Restored Shores Award. This award aims to recognize projects that enhance the environment particularly on low-energy and moderate-energy shorelines. ASBPA will accept nominations for the 2020 awards through July 17, 2020. Nominations can include: Back bay projects Living shoreline projects…
July 10, 2019
There are more options to flood-risk management than levees and flood walls
By News Editor
WASHINGTON D.C.—To meet today’s challenges of riverine and coastal flooding in an era of more frequent and severe storms, sea level rise, and skyrocketing disaster costs, it is important that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers take a broad, comprehensive and watershed-based view of overall flood-risk management. Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of…
January 11, 2018
Make America’s Swamps Great Again
By News Editor
ASFPM member Kevin Coulton, of Troutdale, Oregon, is serious about getting his message out on natural infrastructure being coupled with traditional infrastructure when protecting people and property from flood risks. That’s why he wrote Make America’s Swamps Great Again , along with a letter to President Trump , urging him to “consider my opinions regarding…