Today, after several months of testing Deep Green Classifieds, we have substantially simplified format. Changes include:

Specific Outdoor Recreation Lease categories for Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina
Reduced the number of leasing categories to 6. These are:

Hunting (deer, duck, bear, etc.)
Fishing (trout in streams or for bass in farm ponds)
Birding and wildlife observation
Stargazing
Camping
Hiking, mountain biking, [...]

What do all these images have in common? They show people paying for the sustainable use of environmental assets and ecosystem services! Today we launch Version 4 of Conserv featuring a new service, Deep Green Classifieds. The classifieds are a free service for conservation-minded persons to find each other in search of:

Leasing and sale of [...]

A few weeks ago, we featured a Success Story about former State Senator Doug Barclay and his trout fishing business on his farm on the Salmon River near Port Ontario, N.Y. That story discussed how one family has forged into market-based conservation.
Over this past weekend, my fishing buddy, Chris Mawdsley (owner of CrisCars in Orange) [...]