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<title>Land Protected in 2011: County by County Figures</title>
<description>See how much land was conserved in your county in 2011.</description>
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<title>Presentation on Wavyleaf Basketgrass</title>
<description>View this Powerpoint Presentation (now a pdf) to learn more about Wavyleaf Basketgrass and how to stop its spread.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Fescue Conversion (WL-3)</title>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Grazing Land Management (SL-9)</title>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Field Borders (WL-1)</title>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Idle Land Cost-Share Criteria (WL-2)</title>
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<title>Tomorrow Woods</title>
<description>The goal of this program is to conserve, establish, and enhance forests, with a focus on productive, private working forests. Applies to the following counties: Dinwiddie, Isle of Wight, Prince George, Southampton, Surry, Sussex, and the City of Suffolk.</description>
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<title>Reforestation of Timberland</title>
<description>The primary goal is to provide cost-share assistance to landowners for pine reforestation.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Irrigation Water Recycling System (WQ-7)</title>
<description>The purpose of this practice is to improve water quality by collecting and reusing irrigation and surface runoff that may be high in nutrients, sediments, or pesticides from a variety of vegetable &amp;amp; horticultural crops grown using synthetic mulch.</description>
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<title>Land Conservation Update -- Winter 2011</title>
<description>Interested in protecting your land?  PEC's conservation staff can help you explore your options.  Read more from this Winter 2011 mailing.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Cost-share Program Support for Extension of CREP Watering Systems (SL-7)</title>
<description>The purpose of this best management practice is to provide additional funding to Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) projects to encourage full enrollment in the Chesapeake Bay CREP.</description>
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<title>Upcoming Events</title>
<description>Find an upcoming event or conference in the area about wavyleaf basketgrass and other  invasive species.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Vegetative Stabilization of Marsh Fringe Areas (SE-1)</title>
<description>The purpose of this practice is to offer cost-share assistance to establish a natural and environmentally acceptable fringe buffer of selected marsh grasses to provide toe  stabilization protection on tidal waters.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Three Year Contract for Nutrient Management Plan Implementation and Record Keeping (NM-2)</title>
<description>The purpose of this practice is to provide a financial incentive to agricultural operators that implement qualified nutrient management plans, and provide records of nutrient applications.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Long Term Continuous No Till Planting Systems (LT-CNT)</title>
<description>The purpose of this practice is to implement a continuous no-till system and nutrient management planning technologies that result in the reduction of non-point source pollution to state waters from nutrients and sediments.</description>
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<title>Sources of Conservation Funding Results</title>
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<title>Search for Sources of Conservation Funding (beta)</title>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Agricultural Sink Hole Protection (WQ-11)</title>
<description>The purpose of this practice is to improve water quality by removing sources of pollution from sinkholes and providing an adequate buffer to trap and filter sediments and nutrients from surface flows that enter the groundwater through sinkholes.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Integrated Pest Management (WQ-10)</title>
<description>The purpose of this practice is to improve water quality by scouting fields and/or crops and only applying pesticides when the pest reaches the threshold of economic damage.</description>
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<title>Virginia Best Management Practice: Capping/Plugging of Abandoned Wells (WQ-9)</title>
<description>The purpose of this best management practice is to stop or prevent the pollution of the groundwater by cleaning and capping, or plugging abandoned wells.</description>
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