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Citizens or communities across Virginia will be better able to map their most significant natural resources and to prepare plans to conserve or restore them thanks to a new guidebook prepared by the Green Infrastructure Center in Charlottesville.
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The Shenandoah Valley Art Center, during the month of July, is exhibiting the oil paintings of Joe Garber. Garber’s theme, Summer of 2013 & the Fourth of July, 1776, shows his interests in historical research about the first twenty-five years in the founding of Jamestown.
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While it is true that habitat loss as a result of human encroachment is a primary threat to birds and wildlife of all kinds, outdoor cats are no doubt exacerbating the loss of biodiversity as their numbers swell and they carry on their instinctual business of hunting.
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Encouraging all Virginians to take action to reduce trash and litter in the Commonwealth’s waterways, the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, Gov. Bob McDonnell signed a proclamation recognizing June 2013 as Marine Debris Reduction Month in Virginia.
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Each year, an estimated 2 million acres of America’s farms, ranches, forests, wildlife habitat, and other open spaces are fragmented into smaller parcels or lost to development, according to the President’s Annual Economic Report to Congress.
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The monarch butterfly, royally adorned in black, white and reddish-orange and able to migrate as far as 2,800 miles, is a true wonder of nature. Each year monarchs travel from Canada and the U.S. to hibernate in the forests of central Mexico. But in recent years the monarchs have been in sharp population decline due to habitat loss, eradication of the plants it depends upon and other environmental factors.
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Many environmentalists are concerned that, while BP has done a thorough job removing visible oil from the water column and surface, little has been done to repair damage to marine life and ecosystems.
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Citizen groups debuted a new website this week that will educate the public about the impacts of oil and gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing on National Forests in the eastern U.S. and provide them with tools to evaluate and challenge drilling and fracking proposals.
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The Steel Wheels present the first annual Red Wing Roots Music Festival, sponsored by Blue Mountain Brewery and WNRN, on Friday through Sunday, July 12, 13 and 14 at Natural Chimneys Park in Mount Solon, located in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.
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The number of federally-protected black vultures in Virginia has grown over the past 30 years, and the birds have become a nuisance for many farmers, preying on live calves, lambs, piglets and other vulnerable animals.
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