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 […]
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Author: Michael Collins
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 […]
ACP Board of Directors and Staff is thrilled to have Former Director Page Sullenberger join our Board of Advisors. Page helped lead the Center through substantive changes – a new location at Rapidan Mill, a new Development arm of the Center, and new strategic foci. Page’s roots run deep in the Piedmont and Shenandoah Valley […]
Earlier this year the VWHC awarded the 2021 Pollinator and Quail Habitat Conservation Award to Mark and Ann Kington – Owners of Grellen Farm – for their continued work to create large tracts of wildlife habitat in the Rapidan watershed of Central Virginia.
For a client in the Gordonsville, Virginia area we took 2 acres of a cool season pasture and burned it with the mechanical burner 2x in the Spring to see what diversity we could coax from the seed bank. Results are Purple Lovegrass, Indian Grass, and lots of Little Bluestem. For wildflowers – Ironweed and […]