In the face of an impending deadline by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, city commissioners have chosen a course of action for regulating flood plain development. For the past several years, ...

County officials have reached out to a handful of landowners in the slough, hoping to acquire space to re-braid channels and river, simultaneously creating salmon habitat and reducing flood risk.

Groups involved in a pioneering project to transform a floodplain into a thriving wetland habitat are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the start of their work. Long Preston Floodplain in is a ...

He splits up the total to give to the Army Corps and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of which have foresters planting trees to restore floodplain habitat. "Pretty much everything that ...