…here: https://www.pecva.org/our-work/clean-water/eliminating-barriers-and-disruptions/stream-restoration-fish-passage-projects/ This article appeared in The Piedmont Environmental Council’s member newsletter, The Piedmont View. If you’d like to become a PEC member or renew your membership, please visit pecva.org/join….
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On the Ground Updates – December 2022
…Laura O’Brien at lobrien@pecva.org. This article appeared in The Piedmont Environmental Council’s member newsletter, The Piedmont View. If you’d like to become a PEC member or renew your membership, please visit pecva.org/join….
Wild Child
…struck by her observation that there were few people of color sharing the trail with her. “I saw this void,” she told me, “and I wanted to know why.” After…
Wildlife Friendly Farms and Fields
…lively. In fact, the tour drew so many people that the host landowners graciously agreed to show their properties twice that day, welcoming visitors in shifts. About 70 people came…
Water Quality and Land Use
…the more people will demand water. Land uses-ranging from farming and forestry to cities and suburbs-also have a major impact on the available water supply. In a healthy watershed, most…
Retreat Farm: Healthier Food, Healthier People
…ago, this was a new idea. “People didn’t really understand why local farms with sustainable, healthy practices were important,” Frank says. “As a society, we were used to manipulating our…
An Award-Winning CREP Project
…cost-share. Were there key people who helped you make the decision to implement BMPs? Larry Wilkinson (District Conservationist with the USDA in Leesburg) was the initial contact. He set me…
Croftburn Farm
…can taste the difference, compared to factory farmed meat. People tell her that Croftburn’s meat tastes the way they remember from when they were kids, that a hamburger really tastes…
Hike Revisits Life in the Mountains
…resource for people who want to enjoy the mountains today. Kristie Kendall, PEC’s Conservation Coordinator, who did her Masters thesis on old homesites in the Park, says: “So many people…
The Whole Ox
‘Know your farmer’ is a popular phrase these days, but Derek and Amanda Luhowiak, owners of The Whole Ox Butcher Shop in The Plains, think people should get to know…