November 20, 2024 Dear Friend of American Climate Partners, In 1731, the Pennsylvania General Assembly received a petition from Lancaster County, Pa. residents. Conestoga Creek had been dammed by miller Stephen Atkinson for his textile mill operation. The petition complained that the great quantities of fish once available upstream were stuck below the dam. Atkinson […]
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Author: Michael Collins
Below is the second of four messages sent each week in November about how our organization is working to fix the climate. November 14, 2024 Dear Friend of American Climate Partners, Microbes, organisms which are too small to be seen with the naked eye, have always been here – for four billion years, according to […]
Below is the first of four messages sent each week in November, 2024 about how our organization is working to fix the climate. November 7, 2024 Dear Friend of American Climate Partners, I had the good fortune to volunteer as a Greene County Election Official at the Dyke, VA precinct yesterday. Arriving at 5 am […]
American Climate Partners welcomes Dr. Joel Temme to the Board of Directors. Joel is also on the Board of Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action and has a house in the Village of Rapidan, VA. He is passionate about the intersection of human health and climate with a particular interest in how rural areas can provide […]
American Climate Partners launched SoilKeepers, a regenerative landscape management service 10 years ago. SoilKeepers began with a cooperative project, The River Friendly Yard, (2011-2013) conceived by the forerunner of American Climate Partners, Conserv, with Partners Rappahannock River Basin Commission, Virginia Department of Forestry, National Wildlife Federation, City of Fredericksburg, Friends of the Rappahannock, George Washington […]
This Summer, I spent a few days at Mountain Lake Biological Station and had the good fortune to sit in on a talk by Michael Kaspari, George Lynn Cross Research Professor at OU. Dr. Kaspari discussed his work on global nutrient dilution, its impact on herbivore and insect populations, and the need for getting carbon […]
Robert W. “Doc” Hall passed away on February 16, 2024 at the age of 86 https://www.gcdailyworld.com/story/3029995.html. I first met Doc many years ago at a Montreat College https://www.montreat.edu/ retreat I attended with my mother-in-law Virginia Bethune. The conference topic was on intersections between the Presbyterian Church and Ecology. It was at this conference I also […]
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On Burning Cool Season Grasslands
We burn a lot. We burn using what they call prescribed burning (vegetation creates heat), we burn using propane burners of several sizes. Because of mid-Atlantic weather, we will do prescribed burn followed with mechanical burn because of higher humidity but having to get the work done. We burn with horticultural vinegar. We also use […]
ACP Board of Directors at their 1st Quarter Director’s meeting voted unanimously to welcome Orange County Farmer Michael Carter to the Board. Michael Carter Jr. is an 11th generation farmer in the United States and is the 5th generation to farm on Carter Farms, his family’s century farm in Orange County, Virginia where he gives […]
I know memories are fuzzy things, but my guess is the average stay of our 18-30 aged employees is a year. When I close my eyes I can see many dozens of young people, in groups, and teams hauling trash out of rivers, tending soil microbes, planting native grasslands and successional forests, then gone like […]