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America's Estuaries hosts a biennial National Conference and Expo on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration to convene government, corporate, and non-governmental stakeholders in an effort to facilitate information sharing about coastal issues and discuss concerns/solutions about environmental challenges.
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and volunteers. These efforts implement on-the-ground restoration projects that rely on community volunteerism and scientific design. Projects include planting salt marsh grasses, removing invasive species, stabilizing stream banks, growing and distributing shellfish, and installing oyster reef substrate in coastal habitats such as
Coastal Louisiana, Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina and East Bay, Texas.
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Philadelphia. The group decided that on-the-ground habitat restoration of coasts and estuaries would be the most effective focus on which to work together. Soon after, these eight non-profit organizations, along with GBF, created Restore America's Estuaries. In 1997, two more organizations, TBW and STS, joined.
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PEW convenes a meeting of invited organizations in Philadelphia. They decide to create a national organization focused on conducting coastal habitat restoration. First meeting included ALS, CLF, CBF, CRCL, NCCF, PFPS, STB-SF, and STB-NB. GBF, STS, and TBW were invited to join following the first
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PEW Charitable Trust begins work on an initiative that ties together existing coastal organizations at the national level in order to strengthen the organizations by creating networks and connections that would benefit local and state level activities.
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