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Removing small legacy dams can help improve habitat connectivity along rivers, re-establish the flow of sediments and nutrients, support anadromous fish populations, and reduce the risk of flooding to upstream and downstream communities. However, decisions around dams are often controversial and can lead to lengthy and contested debates. Given the growing number of dam removal cases that have failed or been delayed due to community resistance, new methods for involving communities in the decision-making process around dams are necessary. Yet there is limited research and few examples to guide efforts to create quality public engagement that might contribute to a better decision-making process around dams. This article presents a structured and collaborative approach to involving the public in the decision-making process around small legacy dams. We take a transdisciplinary approach, bringing together public engagement tools from the design and planning disciplines with Structured Decision Making. We tested these methods in a public workshop in Keene, New Hampshire, using a pre- and post-survey. This article contributes to existing discourses concerning the role of the public in ecological restoration and environmental management decisions and aims to provide a framework that can help support decision making at other complex dam sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This project begins with aphids - their life cycle, their relationship to plants, how they feed, their role in agriculture, and the abiotic factors that affect them - such as winds and temperatures. Aphid diversity is vast, and their appetites are too; the tobacco aphid Myzus persicae subsp. nicotianae (tobacco aphid), a descendant of Myzus persicae (green peach aphid), feeds on over 400 different herbaceous host species ([6]). [Extracted from the article]

The article presents information on research papers related to restoration of coastal and marine communities. The paper "Redesigning Man-made Structures to Restore Natural Flows,"published in the "Journal of Soil and Water Conservation," examines the effects of artificial water constrictions and to improve water quality in Gooseneck Cove, Rhode Island. The paper "Effects of Stressors on Invasive and Halophytic Plants of New England Salt Marshes: A Framework for Predicting Response to Tidal Restoration," by R.A. Konsiky and D.M. Burdick discusses the transplantation of three native salt marsh species and three invasive species to the New England coast to measure their growth and survival when paired competitively and under high, middle and low levels of flooding and salinity. The paper "The Link Between Hydrology and Restoration of Tidal Marshes in the New York/New Jersey Estuary," by F.A. Montalto and T.S. Steenhuis summarizes the hydrology and function of tidal marshes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.