As Conserv’s relationship with the Rappahannock River Basin deepens, I thought it would be a good idea to explore one of my favorite tributaries of the river a little more deeply. With the high waters of early summer, I took the opportunity to kayak the upper Robinson, from Criglersville to Rt. 29. It was a [...]
Yesterday, environmental history was made at the Old Beale Memorial Church in Tappahannock, the oldest documented courthouse in Virginia. Surrounded by Flemish bond brickwork with salt-glazed headers and compass-headed windows, the Rappahannock River Basin Commission took the first step toward moving Virginia into the ranks of the leaders of the worldwide ecosystem services movement.
In a [...]
My colleague Buck Kline, at the Virginia Department of Forestry, attended the Wildlife Habitat Council 1st Ecosystem Services conference last week in Maryland. He just forwarded me his speaker’s notes for Sally Collins’s presentation. Sally Collins, as folks may know, is the new Director of the USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets.
Ms. Collins’s comments [...]
Today, Deep Green Classifieds has added three new marketplace categories:
For Fee Hunting Leases
For Fee Fishing Leases
For Fee Wildlife Observation Leases
Ads for these leases are free and can be posted with just a few steps at Deep Green Classifieds.
We hope to be working with partner hunting and fishing organizations in the months ahead to assist landowners [...]
From the Wildlife Habitat Council Website…this is the last day for this conference in Maryland.
Ecosystem Services
on Corporate Lands Conference
June 11-12, 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Silver Spring, MD
The first annual Ecosystem Services on Corporate Lands conference, presented by the Wildlife Habitat Council in collaboration with the World Resources Institute, will focus on the connections between habitat management, biodiversity conservation, [...]
Next week, the Northwest Environmental Business Council and the American Forest Foundation will present a conference titled Ecosystem Markets, Making Them Work. Specific topics will include:
The role of ecosystem markets
The state of market development
The business opportunity
The international perspective
Policy issues in market design
Making regulatory markets work
Progress in developing market tools
Moving forward with voluntary markets
Case studies of [...]
Today we added a new category for Deep Green Classifieds…“Relaxing in a cottage, cabin, or lodge“ This is a classification targeted specifically for landowners with cottages on farms or other natural areas that rent a built structure as a result of the surrounding environmental assets. We hope this new addition to Deep Green Classifieds will [...]
Conserv and the Rappahannock River Basin Commission, working with other agencies and organizations, will soon make an announcement about a major event to be held later this year.
Recently, Teri Gordon, from Lake Hughes, California, and a REALTOR with P.J. deHaas Properties, contacted me about enrolling in the American Conservation Broker certification program. During our conversation, Teri discussed her passion for the desert and lake habitat around northern Los Angeles and for the Lakes and Valleys Conservancy.
The mission of the Conservancy is:
to acquire, [...]
The purpose of Deep Green Classifieds is to provide a platform for the creation of a watershed-based economy that is expressly designed to enhance the health of the environmental assets and ecosystem services human civilization depends upon. The current categories found within Deep Green have already been modified since its launch a few weeks ago.
If [...]