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2025 RFPP Update
Rapidan Fish Passage Project Staff is working on Project Status, Plans for Spring, and FAQ information to be completed and posted here by early April.
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2024 RFPP Update
We are very excited to share the news that on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, NOAA Fisheries announced that our Rapidan Fish Passage Project (RFPP) has been selected for $7.9 million in funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act. The project will remove the Rapidan Mill Dam and restore habitat along the Rapidan […]
Below is the final special message describing how our organization is working to fix the climate. Life on Earth depends on a fragile atmospheric security blanket. If Earth were an apple, this protective layer would be its skin — a paper-thin cloak that once saved George Washington’s army. During the Battle of Trenton, the British […]
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 […]
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 […]