by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Lightning Update
Members of Virginia’s land trust and conservation community work on communications and messaging techniques last week at a training sponsored by Virginia’s United Land Trusts and the Partnership. By Jonathan Doherty Land trusts and conservationists...
by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Lightning Update
Land trusts and conservationists gathered last week in Virginia to work on communications and messaging strategies for talking about land protection. Participants explored a narrative around which unified and tailored messaging can be built, learned the formula for...
by admin | Mar 4, 2019 | Lightning Update
In a big win for conservationists, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has vacated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ permit for the Surry-Skiffes Creek transmission line across the James River. By Jonathan Doherty For years, a broad coalition...
by admin | Feb 25, 2019 | Lightning Update
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf discusses the Restore Pennsylvania proposal with DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and others. Restore Pennsylvania would dedicate $4.5 billion over four years to critical infrastructure, including green infrastructure. (Photo: DCNR)...
by admin | Feb 18, 2019 | Lightning Update
The site of a former telephone switching station and cable yard, now Crispus Attucks Park and the focus of a recent conservation easement acquired by Casey Trees. (Photo: Dave Harp for Bay Journal) We almost always talk of land conservation goals in terms of acres,...
by admin | Feb 11, 2019 | Lightning Update
The U.S. Senate passed a large conservation bill Tuesday which would permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, expand wilderness, and protect parks. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed the “Natural Resources Protection Act”, touted as...
