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Nature-Based Solutions for Biodiversity Handbook
A team from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the University of Georgia, IRIS recently published the new Nature-Based Solutions for Biodiversity Handbook, a handbook that uses landscape architecture renderings to demonstrate how communities can use nature-based solutions to protect their communities while promoting biodiversity. Check out the handbook here!
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Welcome to the new IRIS Communications Coordinator, Olivia Allen!
We’re very excited to welcome the new IRIS Communications Coordinator, Olivia Allen, to the IRIS team. A bit about Olivia: she graduated from UGA’s Odum School of Ecology in 2023 with a B.S. in Ecology, with emphases on science communication, freshwater ecosystems, and human geography. During her time as a student, Olivia was a communications assistant for […]
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IRIS comments on USACE proposal to update PL 84-99 regulations
The US Army Corps of Engineers spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to repair, rehabilitate, and restore levees that are damaged by floods. Much of that money flows through the Rehabilitation and Inspection Program (RIP), a program governed by Public Law 84-99. The program was created by Congress in 1941 to ensure that […]
