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Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Mayhem of Construction (JMU 2022)

Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Mayhem of Construction (JMU 2022)

Note: The News Leader of Staunton, Virginia published an op-ed version of this piece on 8/15/2017.  It can be found here. Mayhem of Construction Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), if allowed to be built, will be the largest disturbance of land and water in the Commonwealth of Virginia since the […]

August 17, 2016 Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Hydrofracking, Soil Erosion, Water Pollution No Comments
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The Endangered Species Act saved the California Condor

Ash Trees, Shrikes, the Roanoke Logperch, and the Endangered Species Act at 50 (JMU 2024)

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the most comprehensive law protecting imperiled plants and animals in the world. Because of the ESA, hundreds of plants and animals have been saved, including some of our most iconic birds: the American Bald Eagle, the California Condor, the Peregrine Falcon, and the Whooping […]

August 4, 2016 Uncategorized 26 Comments
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Contour Strip Cropping System

Contour Farming: One of the Simplest and Most Effective BMPs

In our quest to profit from the land and feed a hungry planet with annual crops such as corn and soybeans, we have abandoned one of the most powerful conservation practices known to science – contour farming. Used since ancient times to slow the flow of water across the land […]

July 26, 2016 Chesapeake Bay, Nutrient Management, Soil and Water Conservation, Soil Erosion, Water Pollution, Watershed restoration 18 Comments
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Nordstrom recommends fencing cattle out of streams.

Biosecurity and Stream Exclusion

Beef cattle biosecurity and stream exclusion are very important to this large animal veterinarian. His First Week on the Job On his first week on the job as a veterinarian back in 1993, Scott Nordstrom treated a case that would stick with him the rest of his life. Shockingly, half […]

June 24, 2016 Chesapeake Bay, Herd Health, Stream Fencing, Water Pollution 14 Comments
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Conservation Ladies in the Valley

Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week in the Middle River Watershed – 2016

Two events were held in the Shenandoah Valley for Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week.  One on David Surratt’s farm in Fishersville, VA and another on Jeanne Hoffman’s farm in Swoope.  Both venues are in the Middle River watershed. Surratt Farm Event Mr. Surratt and his family excluded their cattle from five […]

June 15, 2016 Chesapeake Bay, Riparian Buffers, Soil and Water Conservation, Stream Fencing, Watershed restoration 5 Comments
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River Walk at the Farm

River Walk at the Farm

In celebration of Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week (June 4 – 12) Jeanne and I are hosting a “River Walk at the Farm” on Sunday, June 12th at 3pm.  Meet at the intersection of Boy Scout Lane and Trimbles Mill Road in Augusta County, Virginia. Space is limited to the first […]

May 8, 2016 Birding, Chesapeake Bay, Nature, Riparian Buffers, Watershed restoration 30 Comments
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Kits in Swoope

Swoope Almanac April 2016: Fox Kits, Frogs and Warbler Fallout on the Farm

We live on a farm in the headwaters of the Shenandoah River – a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay. How cool is that? We started this year’s calving season on March 1st with 122 pregnant beef cows. All of them have calved except nine.  Cow #65 and #X6 had twins. […]

April 25, 2016 Birding, Chesapeake Bay, Nature, Swoope Almanac, Wildlife 36 Comments
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Riparian Forest Buffers are essential for restoring Brook Trout habitat.

Restoring the Chesapeake Bay One Small Watershed at a Time

Virginia Wildlife magazine cover, March/April 2016 issue. Virginia Wildlife magazine published my article "Poague Run: Restoring Trout, Restoring Hope" in the 2016 March/April edition.  It's the story about the people that restored a 3,000-acre watershed.  More information about Virginia’s premier wildlife magazine and to subscribe, check them out at www.dgif.virginia.gov/virginia-wildlife. [...]
March 9, 2016 Chesapeake Bay, Riparian Buffers, Soil and Water Conservation, Stream Fencing, Watershed restoration 30 Comments
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Historic Win For the Chesapeake Bay TMDL

Historic Win For the Chesapeake Bay TMDL

Chesapeake Bay TMDL Wins in Court Five years of court battles are over.  Today, a leap day that will never be forgotten in watershed restoration, the Chesapeake Bay, with over 10,000 streams and all its inhabitants won in the Chambers of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Today […]

February 29, 2016 Chesapeake Bay, Watershed restoration 22 Comments
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Improve Herd Health with Abundant Clean Water

Livestock Drinking Dirty Water is Not Good For Herd Health Humans don’t drink dirty water and neither should your livestock. Aristotle recognized the value of boiling water and burying feces to prevent disease back in 350BC. We’ve been learning ever since.  Just as with human health, herd health improves with […]

February 6, 2016 Chesapeake Bay, Stream Fencing, Water Pollution, Watershed restoration 5 Comments
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    Whiskey Creek Almanac: August 2026, Climate Change, Mycofiltration, and the American Barn Owl
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    Greed, Lies, and Lack of Oversight Led to the Kepone Disaster of 1975

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