The Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District, which geographically includes all of Madison County, recently recognized Carolyn Smith with its Annual Forest Landowner Award in recognition of Ms. Smith’s significant investment in forest management and pollinator habitat development.
Last Saturday, I spent the afternoon performing an act that comes easily to all Southern gentlemen. No, I didn’t finish off the grits at break…
The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) has announced the creation of its 200th conservation easement in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Virginia Tech will soon test the nationwide potential of paying farmers to practice more sustainable agriculture.
Virginia farmers and forest landowners shopping for solutions to their conservation problems can now access a full range of funding options fr…
Fire crews are working to steer a growing wildfire away from Yosemite National Park's legendary giant sequoias, taking protective measures like installing a sprinkler system to dampen the ground around one of the park's most famous trees.
Nearly half of a 4,500 acre property in Albemarle County’s rural area that’s owned by the West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family will go to auction later this month.
Judging by overhead drone footage, the fire covered between 30 and 40 acres, an official said.
Instead of people scaring deer into the woods, a deer has scared people into the woods.
The Greene County Planning Commission will hold a public work session regarding the comprehensive plan review prior to their regular meeting o…
Protections for Alaska's Tongass National Forest, known as America's Amazon, will reportedly be lifted, allowing "logging and other forms of development."
William Boyd Hall, 70, of Scottsville, died peacefully at his home on July 27, 2020. Billy was a retired Forest Warden from Buckingham County …
On Saturday evening, the estate of the fourth U.S. president will open its doors and send pyrotechnics aloft to celebrate its recent conservation of more than 1,900 acres of historic ground.
President Jair Bolsonaro suggested Wednesday, without citing evidence, that non-governmental organizations could be setting them to make him look bad.
In 2016, the supervisors decided no longer to accept parcels into argicultural-forestal districts that couldn’t be developed under existing zoning. And now they have decided to tell property owners in the Hardware Agricultural-Forestal District that if they can’t subdivide their property under existing zoning, they may be kicked out of the district in 2024.
» Bow-Wow-Walk, benefiting the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA, is held from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at IX Art Park at 522 Second St. …
Lillard "Leo" Smith Lawson Jr., 55, of Arvonia, Va., passed away on Monday, March 11, 2019. Born on January 18, 1964, in Greene County, Va., h…
Trodding deliberately through an oak grove and the dynamic air of a fading season, swollen neck and tined, bone-white crown extended in hot-bl…
Dorothy Caroline Knauer of Charlottesville, VA peacefully completed her earthly journey on February 15, 2019. She was one of six children born…
Edward Lynn "Eddie" Embrey, 67, of Rockfish Depot, entered his eternal home on January 31, 2019, after a long and courageous battle with cance…
Nearly 200 acres of forested land in Albemarle County has been donated to the Land Trust of Virginia and will be protected in perpetuity.
Woods Price Stringfellow of Charlottesville, Va., passed away on October 23, 2018, in Charlottesville. Born on July 28, 1928, in Waynesville, …
The owners of Glenmary Farm have chosen to permanently protect 382 acres of their land through a conservation easement with the Piedmont Environmental Council, Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District and the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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