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Tree Swallows, Mercury Contamination and Middle River

Tree Swallows, Mercury Contamination and Middle River

Apr 27, 2018

There are many harbingers of Spring in Swoope; the yellow blooms of daffodils and forsythia, the sounds of spring peepers, and pastures changing from brown to green are only a few. My favorite harbinger of Spring is the arrival of Tree Swallows, Tachycineta bicolor. I start looking for them in late February....

Earth Day and the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring (JMU 2018)

Earth Day and the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring (JMU 2018)

Aug 11, 2017

Rachel Carson…she’s one of my heroes. This year for Earth Day (April 22, 2012) it is fitting to honor the 50th anniversary of Rachael Carson’s book, Silent Spring. Rachael Carson This book moved the world by heightening our awareness of the environment and the affects of indiscriminate use of pesticides. ...

Earth Day and the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring

Apr 20, 2012

Rachel Carson…she’s one of my heroes.   This year for Earth Day (April 22, 2012) it is fitting to honor the 50th anniversary of Rachael Carson’s book, Silent Spring. Rachael Carson This book moved the world by heightening our awareness of the environment and the affects of indiscriminate use of...

First Place Award for Outstanding Blog 2016 and 2018 from Virginia Outdoor Writers Association

  • “If you want to understand the perspective of a dedicated cattle farmer, educated ecologist, and water-quality specialist, this is the book for you!
    Turn these pages and feel the frost on your nose in winter, hear quail calling in the spring, taste a homegrown tomato in the summer, and watch Monarch butterflies fuel up on nectar in the fall. . . . truly spectacular stuff!”

    George Ohrstrom II
    Founder, The Downstream Project

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Atlantic Coast Pipeline . bio-accumulation . calving . cattle . Chesapeake Bay . Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint . Chesapeake Bay Foundation . chesapeake clean water blueprint . clean water . Clean Water Act . Climate Change . Conservation Reserve Program . contour planting . CREP . DDT . dead zones . Earth Day . Environmental Awareness . EPA . Friends of Middle River . herd health . livestock exclusion . Middle River . native prairie . non-point source water pollution . Northern Bobwhite . pollution . Princess of Swoope . quail . riparian buffer . riparian forest buffer . riparian forest buffers . Shenandoah River . Silent Spring . soil erosion . stream fencing . Stroud Water Research Center . swoope . Swoope almanac . tall fescue . tmdl . water pollution . water quality . watershed . wildlife habitat

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