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The U.S. Senate voted 80-17 Monday to take up the Great American Outdoors Act, a bill championed by Sen. Mark Warner that would address the $12 billion maintenance backlog at National Park Sites across the country.
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They can’t drive a tractor or milk the cows, but native pollinators put in a hard day’s work on Virginia farms.
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How are we doing in the battle to stop or slow deforestation, especially in the tropics where forests store so much of the world’s biodiversity?
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Spring is a great time to be in the woods, and beginning Saturday June 6, outdoor enthusiasts have an exciting opportunity to hunt gray and red squirrels statewide.
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As cute as they may be, squirrels can cause serious trouble if they decide to nest in your attic.
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Despite several communities associating bats with various horror movies, these flying creatures tend to be quite benign and, perhaps, even shy.
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It’s that time of year again when white-tailed deer fawns are showing up in yards and hayfields, and concerned citizens want to know how to help.
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The Commonwealth of Virginia has come through for the waterbird colony that previously nested on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel’s South Island, a habitat impacted by ongoing construction.
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The concept of civil disobedience (defined by Merriam-Webster as the “refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something”) dates back to the dawn of civil society.
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Poplar Island is growing by 2 million cubic yards a year in the Army Corps’ largest “beneficial use” of dredged material undertaken on the East Coast.
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