The Center embarks on a multi-year relationship with the Rappahannock River Basin Commission. The River Friendly Yards project is completed in partnership with George Washington University and the National Wildlife Federation.
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Category: ACP History
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Conserv creates the American Conservation Broker real estate agent certification program, which certifies hundreds of brokers and agents in the US. After the real estate crash of 2008, Conserv creates the Forests 2 Faucets program in partnership with the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities and the Virginia Department of Forestry, to protect upstream forest […]
Michael Collins — a conservationist, entrepreneur, environmental and urban planner, and educator — founds the Association for Conservation Real Estate (Conserv), to recognize the value of ecological assets in real estate transactions.
After hearing recommendations from outside advisors, the mitigation bank concept for funding RFPP is abandoned and we submit an application to NOAA-Fisheries for funding under its Restoring Fish Passage program.
SoilKeepers serves 53 clients in its tenth year, including two large homeowners’ associations.
StreamSweepers cleans over 30 miles of the Clinch River, providing summer jobs to 11 young people, and removing 1,778 tires and nearly 19 tons of other trash. Looking forward, StreamSweepers convenes a stakeholder meeting to begin planning for a multi-state clean-up in the upper Big Sandy watershed of Southwestern Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Southeastern West […]
Southeastern Climate Restoration Solutions program launches to implement our growing realization that modifications in landscape management could be a cost-effective natural solution for carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere. USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Services selects us as a partner with a multi-million-dollar award to expand measurement and monitoring of carbon in soil on working agricultural […]
American Climate Partners creates ACP Realty Holdings LLC, purchases the Rapidan Mill dam and adjacent land on the Culpeper County side of the river.
StreamSweepers cleans over 27 miles of the Clinch River, providing summer jobs to 11 young people, and removing over 2,200 tires and over 25 tons of other trash and performs a maintenance sweep on 20 miles of the Robinson River in Central Virginia.
Building on our decade of vegetation and soil health management experience through SoilKeepers, the Virginia Grasslands Deep Soil Carbon project launches as a research effort to develop data from deep in the soil and to expand the methods used to achieve greater soil carbon storage. As part of this project, a partnership with a major […]