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SHENANDOAH VALLEY PURE WATER FORUM ONLINE KNOWLEDGEBASE
Projects
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| Building and Sustaining the Capacity of a Community Watershed Organization | This is Leslie Mitchell-Watson's Capstone Paper for the Masters of Natural Resources Degree at Virginia Tech, entitled "The Making and Keeping of Friends: Building and Sustaining the Capacity of a Community Watershed Organization in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia" | 12/14/2006 |
| Fish Kill Task Force | The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) are the conveners of the task force. These two agencies co-chair the Task Force. Funding for the applied research comes from the Commonwealth of Virginia General Fund and from the Virginia Environmental Emergency Resource Fund (VEERF) | 7/14/2005 |
| FNFSR River Clean Ups | Friends of the North Fork regularly hold clean up days where volunteers can come out to help clean up a spot on the Shenandoah. | |
| Rural Economic Analysis Program | REAP research by faculty and graduate students focuses on three themes: agricultural and business competitiveness, rural and community development, and natural resources and environment. | |
| Shenandoah Watershed Study | Study of watershed dating back 25 years, including focus on the legacy of past land use, the impact of forest defoliation by the gypsy moth, and the depletion of nutrients in watershed soils | |
| ShenWater Knowledge Base | Link everything to everyone through everyone. | 10/1/2004 |
| Strategy for Watershed Management Solutions | The development of a watershed management plan provides a planning and working document for both government and citizen activities. | |
| Stream Restoration Project for Black's Run | Project Consists of 3,000 foot natural stream restoration in Purcell Park, an urban recreational area operated by the City of Harrisonburg, VA. | |
| Virginia Environmental Endowment Mini-Grant Program | With grants of $5,000 or less, schools have instituted environmental science courses and outdoor classroom projects, volunteers have monitored water quality in dozens of local streams and rivers, and communities have developed innovative strategies to ensure environmental quality is improved in their community. | |
| Virginia's Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program | The program aims to improve Virginia's water quality and wildlife habitat by offering financial incentives, cost-share and rental payments to farmers who voluntarily restore riparian buffers, filter strips and wetlands through the installation of approved conservation practices. | |
| Water Window | The Water Window is an online tool that displays water quality and land cover information for sample locations monitored by volunteers from the Friends of the Rivers groups in the Shenandoah Valley. More information is available at ww.PureWaterForum.org. | 1/1/2002 |