Today, the Rappahannock Exchange Symposium/Ecosystem Services Council Kick-off Steering Committee set Wednesday, December 9 for the day-long meeting. The agenda for this historic gathering, to be held at a soon-to-be announced location in Fredericksburg, may include:

Goals of a 21st-century marketplace
Mini-briefings on emering Chesapeake Bay and greenhouse gas reduction - friendly market demand opportunities including:

Carbon footprinting [...]

A story on WVTF public radio today about the plight of Virginia’s private forestlands…
Threat’s to Virginia’s Private Forestlands
These new landowners need to find ways to generate revenue, sustainably, from their inherited family forest lands.
A meeting will be held tomorrow at the Virginia Department of Forestry in
Charlottesville for estate planning for forest landowners….
Estate Planning Workshop

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