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Virginia Conservation Lands Database
Anyone can access all mapped Virginia Conservation Lands and associated information with the Virginia Conservation Lands Database by using the interactive map viewer or by using the Virginia Natural Heritage Data Explorer. These tools also allow users to query the Conservation Lands Database and make maps with this and many other reference layers (boundaries, aerial photography, streams, etc.).

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There are 15 resources serving Southeast Virginia Region in the following categories:

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Map of Battlefield Conservation Organizations & Professionals serving Southeast Virginia Region

Land Trusts

American Battlefield Trust
- Washington , DC

American Farmland Trust
- Washington, DC

Capital Region Land Conservancy
Jane Myers - Land Conservation Manager - Richmond, VA

Catoctin Land Trust
- Frederick, MD

Green Fence Conservation Trust
- Apex, NC

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy
- Williamsburg, VA

Land Trust of Virginia
- Middleburg, VA

Living River Restoration Trust
- Portsmouth, VA

North American Land Trust
Monica McQuail - Communications & Stewardship Assistant - Chadds Ford, PA

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Missoula, MT

Sportsmen's National Land Trust
- Agawam, MA

The Nature Conservancy, Virginia
- Charlottesville, VA

Trout Unlimited
Chris Wood - President and Chief Executive Officer - Arlington, VA

Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
Hali Plourde-Rogers - Executive Director - Belle Haven, VA

Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Jason McGarvey - Communications and Outreach Manager - Richmond, VA

Conservation Easements

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Enforcing Perpetual Conservation Easements Against Third-Party Violators
By: Jessica Jay
Among the most daunting challenges the holder of a perpetual conservation easement faces is the enforcement of the easements it holds, for all time, and against all violators.& ...

Amending or Terminating Conservation Easements: The New Hampshire Experience
By: Terry M. Knowles
Since their release in 2010, the Guidelines have been useful to the land trust community and to the New Hampshire Attorney General in facilitating a thorough and efficient review of proposed amendments to, as well as partial extinguishments of, conservation easements.

Understanding When Perpetual Is Not Forever: An Update To The Challenge Of Changing Conditions, Amendment, And Termination Of Perpetual Conservation Easements, And Response To Ann Taylor Schwing
By: Jessica Jay
Rarely in the legal discourse is an author afforded the opportunity to revisit and update a recently published law review article and to correct misunderstandings of a response thereto.

Perpetuity is Forever, Almost Always: Why It Is Wrong To Promote Amendment and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements
By: Ann Taylor Schwing
When a landowner makes a charitable gift of a conservation easement to a nonprofit organization or government entity and elects to seek a federal tax deduction, both landowner and easement holder are subject to federal tax laws and regulations governing the creation, monitoring, amendment, and extinguishment of the easement.

Conservation Easement Reform: As Maine Goes Should the Nation Follow
By: Jeff Pidot
This article explores how the Reform Law has worked and whether it makes sense as a model for other states in response to weaknesses in their enabling laws.

Rural Property Appraisal An Overview of the Process and Terminology
By: Gary Bratton
At some point in time you may need opinion of value—an appraisal— of your rural property. A qualified appraiser can provide this, and most will follow a distinct process in developing the appraisal.

Conservation Easements and Succession Planning
By: Piedmont Environmental Council
When rural land passes from one generation to the next, it is often vulnerable to subdivision and development for a variety of reasons. The heirs might have differing ideas about what to do with the land, or they may not have the same commitment to forestry or agriculture as the prior generation.

Use of Conservation Easements in Estate and Conservation Planning
By: Jesse J. Richardson and L. Leon Geyer
Under many circumstances, the donation of a conservation easement or sale of such easement for less than fair market value may give income tax, estate tax, and real property tax benefits to the donor or seller.

Tax advantages and other incentives related to land conservation
By: Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code allows two principal forms of tax benefits from donations of conservation easements: a federal income tax deduction and an estate tax exclusion.

Leaving a Legacy of Land
By: Ed Contreras, IWJV's Working Wetlands Conservation Delivery Coordinator
Protecting private lands that provide significant natural resource or cultural values is often a capstone objective for landowners, managers, and conservationists.

Conservation Almanac
The Trust for Public Land has created the Conservation Almanac, which is a great resource for understanding the context of the conservation and conservation finance movements. Here you can see how much land has been protected in your state, which state and federal agencies have protected the land, the ratio of money spent to land conserved, and policies and programs that could help your state reach its conservation objectives.

How a Conservation Easement Works - Sample example of conservation easement
A simple example illustrates how a conservation easement works in practice. Let’s assume pressure from buyers building vacation homes has pushed the value of land up in recent years to the point where the family is concerned about how the next generation will pay the estate tax bill without selling the land.

Land Preservation - An Essential Ingredient in Smart Growth
By: Thomas Daniels
The preservation of land for working rural landscapes, wildlife habitat, urban parks, recreational trails, and protecting water supplies and floodplains is emerging as an integral component of smart growth programs.

6 Basic Steps to Conveying a Conservation Easement
By: Robert Levin
How does one go about donating or selling a conservation easement.? There is no one right way to go about it. However, the following outline shows the most common steps to the process.

The Law of Agricultural Land Preservation in the United States
By: Thomas Daniels and John Keene
Thomas Daniels and John Keene's new book breaks down the legal principles, federal and state requirements, and the legal issues that affect agricultural land preservation efforts.

Find a Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCCs)
Find an LCC here. The 22 LCCs collectively form a network of resource managers and scientists who share a common need for scientific information and interest in conservation. Each LCC brings together federal, state, and local governments along with Tribes and First Nations, non-governmental organizations, universities, and interested public and private organizations. Our partners work collaboratively to identify best practices, connect efforts, identify science gaps, and avoid duplication through conservation planning and design.

Managing the landscapes that provide our natural and cultural resources has become increasingly challenging. With the signing of Secretarial Order No. 3289, the Department of the Interior launched the Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) to better integrate science and management to address climate change and other landscape scale issues. By building a network that is holistic, collaborative, adaptive, and grounded in science, LCCs are working to ensure the sustainability of our economy, land, water, wildlife, and cultural resources.

Using the Conservation Tax Incentive
By: Land Trust Alliance
This short brochure summarizes the conservation easement tax incentive and provides answers to some frequently asked questions. For the late ...

Conservation Easements
By: Christopher B. Johnson
One tool for estate planners is the conservation easement, by which a landowner voluntarily restricts his or her land from being developed, restricts the amount of development or protects existing features, like a building facade with historic value.

Conservation Easements - How Flexible Is Too Flexible?
To ensure the continued conservation of natural resources and habitats, it is important to ensure that easements are not simply undone by successors to the original parties after the tax benefits have been realized.& ...

Mitigation and Conservation Banking
By: K Gregg Elliott
To many landowners a threatened or endangered (T&E) species on their property is anathema because it can herald all kinds of state and federal limitations on use of their property.& ...

Kelo, Conservation Easements, and Forever - Why Eminent Domain Is Not a Sufficient Check on Conservation Easements' Perpetual Duration
By: Derrick P. Fellows
In this article you will learn how Kelo v. City of New London affirmed that promoting economic development is a permissible public purpose sufficient to justify taking private property by eminent domain and that a legislative body is to receive broad deference in making this determination.

2015 National Land Trust Census Report
By: Land Trust Alliance
Our common ground and collective impact.

Conservation Easements - A Tool for Preventing the Fragmentation of Family Lands
By: Lorie Woodward Cantu
Land stewards can use conservation easements to help manage the future. Conservation easements can be created to protect different natural assets ranging from endangered species and water sources to productive, open space and agricultural land.

Uniform Conservation Easement Act Summary
By: Uniform Law Commission
Although traditional uses of land for industrial, commercial, residential and agricultural purposes have continued, conservation and historic preservation have become important as well.

What is Natural Area Dedication?
By: Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Natural Area Dedication is a conservation option available to landowners of highly significant natural areas.

Investing in the Commonwealth's Land and Water
By: Virginia Forever
Virginia Forever's Five-Year Plan, 2015-2019

Virginia Conservation Lands Database
Anyone can access all mapped Virginia Conservation Lands and associated information with the Virginia Conservation Lands Database by using the interactive map viewer or by using the Virginia Natural Heritage Data Explorer. These tools also allow users to query the Conservation Lands Database and make maps with this and many other reference layers (boundaries, aerial photography, streams, etc.).

Buying & Selling Virginia Tax Credits
By: Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance
Conservation easement donors often receive more in Virginia tax credits than is required to pay their state taxes. Tax credit holders can sell these additional credits on the free market.

Alternatives to Real Estate Development Deriving Financial Benefits from Conservation and Mitigation Projects in Virginia - a Lender's Collateral Concerns
By: R. Lee Stephens, Jr and Robert J. Allen
In the current economic environment, landowners previously contemplating development or sale of their real property are seeking alternative ways to generate cash flow from their real property assets.

Uniform Conservation Easement Act (with 2007 Amendments)
By: National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
The Act enables durable restrictions and affirmative obligations to be attached to real property to protect natural and historic resources.

Multi-Generational Ownership and Planning for Family Owned Properties
By: David J. Backer, Richard A. Spencer
The paper explains many of the common legal tools used by families to manage and/or transfer family lands, and gives a very good overview of the expectations and considerations families will face throughout the process.

Forever Donation
By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
A landowner recently asked us: What is the best way to ensure that the land I donate is not sold? We put the question to the land trust community and it generated quite a bit of activity on the land trust listserv.

Tax Benefits of Donating Conservation Land
By: Robert Levin
There are several kinds of tax benefits available to donors of land or conservation easements. This article attempts to summarize these benefits and provide some examples of how they work.

What is a Land Trust?
Land trusts are non-profit organizations directly involved in the permanent protection of land and its resources for the public benefit. A trust may operate on a local, state, regional, or national level.

Bundle Of Rights Approach To Value
By: Gerald R. Barber
The bundle of rights theory maintains that ownership of a parcel of real estate may embrace a great many rights, such as the right to its occupancy and use; the right to sell it in whole or in part; the right to bequeath; the right to transfer by contract for specified periods of time, the benefits to be derived by occupancy and use of the real estate.

2014 Farm Bill Field Guide to Fish and Wildlife Conservation
By: North American Bird Conservation Initiative, U.S. Committee
The 2014 Farm Bill Field Guide to Fish and Wildlife Conservation was prepared as an introduction for fish and wildlife conservation providers – the on-the-ground biologists and conservation partners who help deliver Farm Bill conservation programs to landowners.

13 Components of a Successful Transferable Development Right Program
By: Rocky Mackintosh
For those of you who don’t know, TDR stands for Transferable Development Rights. Simply put, these are typically programs that are designed by local government to allow for the free market transfer of subdivision or development rights from a rural (agricultural and/or conservation) zone to a designated development zone within a jurisdiction.& ...

Like-Kind Exchanges of Conservation Easements
By: Resources First Foundation - RFF
Certain individuals who own land with significant conservation value, for example landowners of wildlife habitat or open space, can preserve the character of their land, obtain additional property, and defer taxes on the transaction, all at the same time.

Working Lands For Wildlife
By: USDA - NRCS
Through Working Lands for Wildlife —a voluntary, incentive-based effort—the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and its conservation partners will provide landowners with technical and financial assistance to: Restore populations of declining wildlife species.

NextGen Conservation - Peninsula Open Space Trust engages Millennials in its mission.
By: Kirsten Ferguson
The 80 million-plus Millennials in the United States represent the next generation of potential land trust supporters and advocates.

Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities
By: Nadejda Mishkovsky, Matthew Dalbey, Stephanie Bertaina, Anna Read, and Tad McGalliard
Many rural communities are facing challenges, including rapid growth at metropolitan edges, declining rural populations, and loss of working lands.

Conservation of Private Lands - Opportunities and Challenges for the States
By: Patricia E. Salkin
Private land conservation initiatives are a critical component of any state-level quality of life agenda. Although concerns over sprawl, including the loss of prime agricultural lands and significant green space, continue to be one of the underlying rallying cries in support of state-level smart growth initiatives, the fact remains that with few exceptions, conservation of privately-owned working lands has not received significant attention in smart growth literature or conferences.

Bosque Canyon Ranch v. Comm’r—Partnerships Denied Deductions for Conservation Easements Allowing Movable Homesites and Taxed on Disguised Sales of Homesites
By: Nancy A. McLaughlin, Robert W. Swenson Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Bosque Canyon Ranch, L.P. located in the hill country of Texas was just denied $15.9 million of deductions claimed by partnerships for the donation of conservation easements on two grounds in a tax court decision.

The Conservation Easement Quiz
By: Robert Levin
Take a quick quiz and test your knowledge on conservation easements and learn if they can work for you.

Conservation Easement Paragraph Databank
By: Ann Taylor Schwing
The CE Paragraph Databank is a work in progress assembled by the Stanford Conservation and Climate Change Drafting Committee and a number of CE professionals assisting in the work.

Conservation Easements and the 2010 Roth Conversion - A symbiotic relationship
By: Adam Miller
It may come as a shock, but there is a sort of symbiotic relationship at work between property owners with conservation easements and the IRS.

Using Conservation Easements to Protect Working Forests
By: Brenda Lind
For decades, conservation easements have protected open space values such as wildlife habitat, ecological diversity, recreational access and aesthetics.

Farm and Forest Land Preservation With Conservation Easements
By: Christopher D. Clark, Larry Tankersley, George F. Smith, and Daniel Starnes
This publication is intended to provide basic information on conservation easements for landowners, community leaders, students and other interested individuals.

The Importance of Land Trusts to Forestry
By: T.J. McEvoy
Almost everyone in forestry has heard of land trusts since they have become a common fixture especially in areas that are rapidly urbanizing.

Conservation Easements - Donor Beware
By: Jennifer D. Mullen
Conservation easements have garnered significant attention and gained popularity over the last few years due in part to the availability of federal tax deductions and Virginia state tax credits associated with conservation easements.

Easements prove valuable in efforts to protect land
By: Lynne Langley
Practically no one had heard of conservation easements 15 years ago when Charleston native Herbert J. Butler began trying to protect his hundreds of acres of former rice fields.

State of the Land 2006, A brief inventory of public and private land in the United States
By: Amos Eno and Laura Mass Dover and Willard Dyche
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Quoted from an essay by Thoreau lamenting the way in which modern urban life has made natural resources into commodities and isolated people from the natural processes on which their lives depended.

An Overview of Financial Alternatives for Land Conservation Transactions
By: Wade Martin and Sally Ramirez
Clearly, the motivation for a land conservation transaction is often the desire of the landowner to safeguard the property. However, this objective must be balanced with the need to maximize the return to the landowner.

Show Conservation Easements Organizations & Professionals (370)

There are 370 resources serving Southeast Virginia Region in the following categories:

Map of Conservation Easements Organizations & Professionals serving Southeast Virginia Region

Agricultural Law Attorneys

C. Timothy Lindstrom
Conservation Easement Lawyer - Washington, VA

Conservation Partners, LLC
- Lexington, VA

Farmers Legal Action Group
- St. Paul, MN

Flora Pettit, Attorneys at Law
- Harrisonburg, VA

James M. Ash
Husch Blackwell LLP - Kansas City, MO

John H. Foote
Walsh Colucci Lubeley & Walsh, PC - Shareholder - Prince William, VA

John W. Anderson
Spotts Fain - Director/Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Mark W. Botkin
BotkinRose PLC - Harrisonburg, VA

Timothy G. Moore
Spotts Fain - Director, Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Warren L. Tisdale
Willcox Savage - Norfolk, VA

Certified Appraisers

Alex J. Uminski, SRA
Residential Appraiser Supervisor - MG Miller Valuations - Richmond, VA

Alvin R. Young, SRA
- Owner - Virginia Beach, VA

American Forest Management
- Charlotte, NC

Amy N. Edmonds, MAI
Managing Director - Valbridge Property Advisors | Virginia - Williamsburg, VA

Angela B Miller, SRA
President - Miller Appraisals, Inc. - Suffolk, VA

Betsy K. Hughes, SRA
President - BK Appraisal Services - Virginia Beach, VA

Bradley R. Sanford, MAI
Principal - Dominion Realty Advisors, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

Brian J. Dundon, MAI
Commercial Appraiser - Brian J. Dundon & Assoc. - Virginia Beach, VA

Burns N. Gibson, III, SRA
Senior Appraiser - Hanover County - Hanover, VA

Cameron B. Wood
Senior Appraiser - Hometown Realty Services - Ashland, VA

Cecil P. Miller, Jr., SRA
Appraiser - Cecil Miller Real Estate Appraisers - Newport News, VA

Cecil W Simmons, MAI, SRA
President - Cecil Simmons & Co. - Chesterfield, VA

Charles M. Darling, SRA
Owner - Darling Appraisal Services - Virginia Beach, VA

Charles V. Hostetler, SRA
Owner - Hostetler Appraisal - Virginia Beach, VA

Christopher M. Carmody, SRA
Real Estate Appraiser - Barber & Associates - Richmond, VA

Christopher Perry
- CM Perry & Sons - Virginia Beach, VA

Corinna A. Payne, SRA
Certified Residential Appraiser - Powell Appraisers & Consultants, Inc. - Hampton, VA

Curtis M. Darlington
President - Appraisal Corporation of Virginia - Richmond, VA

David A. Sirna
Sirna Forestry Consulting Service - Bunker Hill, WV

David C. Green, SRA
Real Estate Appraiser - Donahoe & Associates, Inc. - Virginia Beach, VA

David E. Richards, MAI
Principal - Dominion Realty Advisors, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

David G. Lester, Sr., SRA
Principal - Lester and Associates, LLC. - Midlothian, VA

David H. MacMillan, SRA
President - Kight Realty Corporation - Virginia Beach, VA

David R. Belote, SRA
R.E. Appraiser - Belote Appraisals, Inc. - Newport News, VA

David R. Wright, Jr., MAI
Director - Valbridge Property Advisors - Chesapeake, VA

David W. Hines, MAI
- Brian J. Dundon & Associates - Virginia Beach, VA

Dennis W. Gruelle, MAI, SRA
Owner - Appraisal Consultation Group - Virginia Beach, VA

Diana L. Ernst
Senior Appraiser - Valbridge Property Advisors|Axial - Chesapeake, VA

Donald J. Powers, Jr, MAI
- Henrico, VA

Doug Schepker, MAI, SRA
Principal - CDS Realty Company - Richmond, VA

Earl L. Wynings, Jr, SRA
- Owner - Carrollton, VA

Edward G. Knight, MAI, SRA
President - Knight Dorin & Rountrey - Mechanicsville, VA

Eric C. Richards
Researcher/Associate - Dominion Realty Advisors, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

Eric C. Sullivan, MAI
- Virginia Beach, VA

Eugene A. Joseph, Jr, MAI, SRA
Proprietor & CEO - EAJoseph Appraisal & Consultation - Richmond, VA

Franklyn L. Stanfield, SRA
Appraiser - Stanfield & Associates - Virginia Beach, VA

G. Douglas Schepp
Appraiser - G. Douglas Schepp - Virginia Beach, VA

Gary Bratton
American Forest Management - Director, Appraisal Services / ARA (Accredited Rural Appraiser) - Sumter, SC

Gary I. Powell, SRA
Vice President - Powell Realty Appr. & Cnslts., Inc. - Hampton, VA

Gracie L Peacock, SRA
President - Gralar and Associates - Chesapeake, VA

H. Glenn James, MAI
Commercial First Appraisers, LLC - Principal - Norfolk, VA

Harrison M. Chavis, MAI
Harrison Chavis & Associates - President - Richmond, VA

Harry F. Hoffmann, Jr, SRA
- Academy Appraisal, LLC - Glen Allen, VA

Heather M. Placer, MAI, SRA
Regional Vice President - Valucentric - Midlothian, VA

Heather Shipe
- Appraisal Group, Inc. - North Chesterfield, VA

Henry T. Thrasher, SRA
President - Greenbrier Real Estate & Appraisals, Inc - Chesapeake, VA

Howard D. Hulen, SRA
Staff Appraiser - Cecil Simmons & Company - Chesterfield, VA

Ian Chavis, MAI
Harrison Chavis & Associates - President - Richmond, VA

James Burok, MAI
Sinnen-Green & Associates - Real Estate Appraiser - Virginia Beach, VA

James F. Windley, MAI
- Certified Commercial General Appraiser - Portsmouth, VA

James H. Boykin, MAI, SRA
Owner - James H. Boykin Real Estate - Richmond, VA

James L. Butler, III, SRA
Owner - James L. Butler III - Chesapeake, VA

James M. Powell, SRA
Owner - Appraisal Company of Virginia - Suffolk, VA

James S. Hunsecker, SRA
President - James S. Hunsecker & Assoc., Inc. - Hampton, VA

Jason P. Donahoe
- Stephen D. Donahoe & Associates Inc. - Virginia Beach, VA

Jean M. Gannon, SRA
General Partner - M G Miller Valuations - Richmond, VA

Jeffrey M. Ward, SRA
- Jeff Ward Appraisals - Virginia Beach, VA

Jeffrey S. Harris, MAI
Principal - Harris Property Advisors - Chesapeake, VA

Jeffrey S. McCormick, MAI
Appraiser - Brian Dundon & Assoc. - Virginia Beach, VA

John C. Harry, III, MAI, SRA
Owner - John C. Harry, Inc. - Suffolk, VA

John L. Soscia, MAI
Soscia & Company, Inc. - President - Virginia Beach, VA

John P. McCarthy, III
Associate - Horwath HTL - Norfolk, VA

John Philip Cooley, MAI
Cooley and Associates, LLC - Principal Appraiser - Charlotte, NC

John Swanberg, MAI
Sole Member - Realty Advisory Group, LLC - Virginia Beach, VA

Justin Baker, MAI
Senior Appraiser - CBRE - Richmond, VA

Katherine C. Baker, MAI
Principal - Connors Baker Commercial Real Estate - Norfolk, VA

Kendall C. Bradley and Associates, Inc.
- Accomac, VA

Kenneth L. Brown, MAI
Senior Managing Director - Integra Realty Resources - Richmond - Richmond, VA

Kenneth M. Hummel, MAI
Senior Commercial Review Appraiser - Regions Bank - Richmond, VA

Kenneth P Copeland, MAI, SRA
Principal - K.P. Copeland & Associates - Virginia Beach, VA

Laurie A. Coffey, SRA
Certified Residential Appraiser - CCR Appraisals, LLC - Newport News, VA

Lawrence J. Colorito, Jr, MAI
Senior Managing Director - Valbridge Property Advisors/Axial - Chesapeake, VA

Leslie D. Spruance, SRA
Real Estate Appraiser - Spruance Appraisals, Ltd - Virginia Beach, VA

Luzette R. Eaves
Senior Appraiser - Research & Valuation Consultants, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

M. Barron Kesser, SRA
Broker/Appraiser - Keystone Realty Co. - Norfolk, VA

Mark Chamblee Boykin, MAI, SRA
President - Boykin Realty Services, LLC - Richmond, VA

Matthew C. Ball, Jr.
Appraiser - Valbridge Property Advisors - Williamsburg, VA

Matthew H. Barber, MAI
Principal - Barber & Associates - Glen Allen, VA

Matthew Mitchell, MAI
Director - CBRE - Richmond, VA

Melanie H. Kidd, SRA
Appraiser - Kidd and Company Realty LLC - Midlothian, VA

Michael A. Knight
Appraiser Trainee - Knight, Dorin & Rountrey - Mechanicsville, VA

Michael F. Berry, MAI
Senior Managing Director - Valbridge Property Advisors | Virginia - Williamsburg, VA

Michael G. Miller, MAI, SRA
Colliers International - Managing Director - Richmond, VA

Michael J. Simerlein
President - Simerlein Appraisals Ltd. - Williamsburg, VA

Michael P. Cummings, MAI
Managing Director - Horwath HTL - Norfolk, VA

Michael S. Larson, MAI
Senior Real Estate Appraiser - Knight, Dorin & Rountrey, Inc. - Mechanicsville, VA

Myers & Woods Appraisal Group, Inc
Wesley Woods - President - Lynchburg, VA

Nancy G. Dove, MAI, SRA
Managing Director - Valbridge Property Advisors - Chesapeake, VA

Nicholas W. Lustrino
- Sinnen-Green & Associates - Virginia Beach, VA

Nicholas W. Paxson, II, MAI
Sole Proprietor - Nicholas W. Paxson - Norfolk, VA

Nicole Allen, MAI
Colliers International - Valuation Services Director - Richmond, VA

Otis Ellsworth Butler, III
President - Butler Appraisals, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

P. Michael Germano, SRA
President - Germano & Company, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

Pearl M. Ibarra, SRA
President - PCI Appraisal Company, LLC - Virginia Beach, VA

Peter E. Winters, Jr
CRE Reviewer - Virginia Beach, VA

Peter M. McCrary, MAI
- Dominion Realty Advisors, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

Peter S. Eckert, MAI, SRA
President - Peter S. Eckert & Company Inc. - Richmond, VA

Phil Bailey, MAI
TerraSource Valuation, LLC - Appraiser - Matthews, NC

Randi Lemmon
Lucas Real Estate Appraisal Service - Blacksburg, VA

Ray E. Whaley, SRA
Staff Appraiser - MGMiller Valuations Inc. - Richmond, VA

Richard Andrew Hareza, MAI
- Valbridge Property Advisors - Chesapeake, VA

Richard C. Daniel, SRA
Owner - Real Estate Appraisal Services - Norfolk, VA

Richard E. McMurran, Jr, SRA
Staff Appraiser - Barker and Associates, Inc. - Yorktown, VA

Richard Paul, SRA
- R.W. Paul Appraisal Services - Mechanicsville, VA

Richard W. Taylor, Jr
President - Richard Taylor & Associates, Inc. - Newport News, VA

Robert F. Abernathy, SRA
Owner - Robert F. Abernathy - Suffolk, VA

Robert H. Mitchell, SRA
Owner - Mitchell & Associates, Realtors - Newport News, VA

Robert W. Watts, SRA
- Richmond, VA

S. Celeste Mohon, SRA
- Susan Celeste Mohon, Appraiser - Virginia Beach, VA

Shela E Edmonds, SRA
Pres. - S. Edmonds Appraisals - Portsmouth, VA

Smith S. Worthy, MAI
- Dominion Realty Advisors, Inc. - Norfolk, VA

Stephen D. Donahoe, SRA
- Donahoe & Associates - Virginia Beach, VA

Stevens L. Burkett, SRA
President - Tidewater Appraisal Group, LLC - Virginia Beach, VA

Stuart D. Holtzman, MAI
Owner/Managing Director - Holtzman Appraisal & Consulting Services - Glen Allen, VA

Summer Back
- Knight, Dorin & Rountrey - Mechanicsville, VA

Terrance McPherson
Terrance McPherson - Frederick, MD

Theresa G. Dunleavy
Owner - Theresa G Dunleavy & Associates - Norfolk, VA

Theresa M. Born
- Rockville, VA

Thomas M. Tye, MAI, SRA
President - Thomas Tye & Assoc. Inc. - Virginia Beach, VA

Thomas O. McCoy, MAI
Principal - McCoy Valuation, Inc - Norfolk, VA

Tom R. Murray, III, SRA
Murray Appraisal Services - Owner - Spotsylvania, VA

Wesley D. Woods
Myers & Woods Appraisal Group, Inc. - Lynchburg, VA

Will E. Leonard, III, SRA
Owner - Leonard Appraisal Services - North Chesterfield, VA

William A. Hopkins, Jr, MAI, SRA
Staff Appraiser - Knight, Dorin & Rountrey - Mechanicsville, VA

William T Barber, Jr, MAI
Principal - Barber & Associates, LLC - Henrico, VA

William W. Callahan, Jr
R.E. Appraiser - Donahoe & Associates - Virginia Beach, VA

Conservation Groups and Associations

500-Year Forest Foundation
- Charlottesville, VA

Access Fund
Jim Chase - Operations Director - Boulder, CO

Agrarian Trust
Ian McSweeney - Director - Weare, NH

AGree
- Transforming Food & Ag Policy - Washington, DC

Alice Ferguson Foundation
Emily Leedy - Director of Programs - Accokeek, MD

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Liz Chudoba - Water Quality Program Manager - Annapolis, MD

America's Longleaf Restoration Initiative
Kyle Jones - Regional Longleaf Pine Restoration Coordinator - Tallahassee, FL

American Agri-Women
- Colchester, VT

American Battlefield Trust
- Washington, DC

American Chestnut Foundation, Virginia Chapter
- Marshall, VA

American Forest Foundation
- Washington, DC

American Forests
Eric Sprague - Director of Forest Conservation - Washington, DC

American Friends of Canadian Land Trusts
Sandra Tassel - Program Coordinator - Bellingham, WA

American Hiking Society
- Silver Spring, MD

American Tree Farm System
Paul DeLong - Senior Vice President, ATFS & Conservation - Washington, DC

Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture
- Blacksburg, VA

Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Harpers Ferry, WV

Arbor Day Foundation
- Nebraska City, NE

Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies
- Washington, DC

Atlantic Coast Joint Venture
Debra Reynolds - Communication Coordinator - Hadley, MA

Bat Conservation International
- Austin, TX

Be Wild, Virginia!
Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries - Henrico, VA

Biobased Maine
- Portland, ME

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - New Brunswick Chapter
Roberta Clowater - Executive Director - Fredericton, NB

Cave Conservancy of the Virginias
Bonnie Whitlock - Manager - Glen Allen, VA

Center for Large Landscape Conservation
- Bozeman, MT

Chesapeake Bay Foundation
- Annapolis, MD

Chesapeake Conservancy
Jenn Aiosa - Vice President & Director of Programs - Annapolis, MD

Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council
- Ridgely, MD

Chesapeake Master Gardeners
- Chesapeake, VA

Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance
- Missoula, MT

CitSci.org
Greg Newman - Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO

Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)
- West Lafayette, IN

Continental Dialogue on Non-Native Forests Insects and Diseases
- Sheffield, MA

Dogwood Alliance
- Asheville, NC

Eastern Shore Virginia Master Gardeners
Virginia Cooperative Extension Office - Accomac, VA

EcoResults!
- Flagstaff, AZ

Equine Land Conservation Resource
Denise O’Meara, PLA - Director of Education - Lexington, KY

Forest Landowners Association
Scott P. Jones - Chief Executive Office - Atlanta, GA

Forest Stewards Guild
Zander Evans - Executive Director - Madison, WI

Forest Stewardship Council
- Minneapolis, MN

Garden Club of Virginia
- Richmond, VA

Garden for Wildlife
National Wildlife Federation - Merrifield, VA

Green Fence Conservation Trust
- Apex, NC

James River Association
- Richmond, VA

Land Conservation and Advocacy Trust
Steve Meltzer - Founder and Executive Director - Framingham, MA

Land Trust Alliance
- Washington, DC

LandScope Virginia
Virginia DCR - Natural Heritage Program - Richmond, VA

Mississippi Wildlife Federation
- Madison , MS

MultiState Conservation Grant Program
- Washington, DC, VA

National Association of State Foresters
- Washington , DC

National Audubon Society
- New York, NY

National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
John Doty - Communications Director - Knoxville, TN

National Family Farm Coaltion
- Washington, DC

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Jeff Trandahl - Executive Director and CEO - Washington, DC

National Forestry Association
Keith A. Argow - President, Director at Large - Vienna, VA

National Mitigation Banking Association
- Washington, DC

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Jeremy Emmi - Managing Director - Washington, DC

National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Washington, DC

National Wild Turkey Federation
- Edgefield, SC

National Wildlife Federation
- Reston, VA

NatureServe
Mary Klein - President & CEO - Arlington, VA

Partnership for Southern Forestland Conservation
- Clemson, SC

Pinchot Institute for Conservation
V. Alaric Sample - President - Washington, DC

Pollinator Partnership
- San Francisco, CA

Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
- Vienna, VA

Preservation Virginia
- Richmond, VA

Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation, Inc.
Craig A. Alderman - Executive Director - Buffalo, MO

Quality Deer Management Association
- Bogart, GA

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
- Washington, DC

Resource Environmental Solutions (RES)
Darrell Whitley - Chief Operating Officer - Houston, TX

Sand County Foundation
Kevin Kiley, Development & Communications - Madison, WI

Savory Institute
- Boulder, CO

Scenic Virginia
- Richmond, VA

Shortleaf Pine Initiative
- Athens, GA

Soil and Water Conservation Society
- Ankeny, IA

Southeast Water Forum
- Knoxville, TN

Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Curtis R Hopkins, Ph.D. - Executive Secretary - Flora, MS

Southern Conservation Partners
Chuck Roe - President - Raleigh, NC

Southern Group of State Foresters
- Garner, NC

Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development
Judith KohlerCO

Sustainable Forestry Initiative
Kathy Abusow - President and CEO - Washington, DC

Sustainable Forests Roundtable

Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Ariel Steele, Owner - Longmont, CO

Terrafirma RRG LLC
Jeremy Johnston - Account Administrator, Marsh Captive Solutions - Burlington, VT

The American Chestnut Foundation
- Asheville, NC

The Climate Trust
- Portland, OR

The Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation
Lindsay Thomas - Chairman - Washington, DC

The Conservation Fund
- Arlington, VA

The Fund for Wild Nature
Jeff Petersen, Esq. - Executive Director - Kelso, WA

The Garden Conservancy
- Cold Spring, NY

The Land Institute
- Salina, KS

The Longleaf Alliance
- Andalusia, AL

The Nature Conservancy, Virginia
- Charlottesville, VA

The Trust for Public Land, D.C. / Chesapeake Office
- Washington, DC

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
- Portland, OR

Thunder Bay Field Naturalists
Bruce Thacker - President - Thunder Bay, ON

Trout Headwaters, Inc.
- Livingston, MT

Turtle Islands Earth Stewards
Tyhson Banighen - Tappen, BC

U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance (USFRA)
- Chesterfield, MO

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority
Ian Wilcox - General Manager/Secretary-Treasurer - London, ON

USA National Phenology Network
Jake Weltzin - Executive Director - Tucson, AZ

Valleys 2000
Bill Huether - Treasurer - Bowmanville, ON

Virginia Association For Parks
- Norfolk, VA

Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund, Inc. ('VCLF')
Tom Clarke, CEO - Roanoke, VA

Virginia Forage and Grassland Council
- Crewe, VA

Virginia Forestry Association
- Richmond, VA

Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Jason McGarvey - Communications and Outreach Manager - Richmond, VA

Virginia’s United Land Trusts
Ellen Shepard - Richmond, VA

VIRGINIAforever
- Richmond, VA

Ward Burton Wildlife Foundation
- Halifax, VA

Wild Ones
Donna VanBuecken - Executive Director - Neenah, WI

Wildlands Conservation, Inc.
- Tampa, FL

Wildlife Foundation of Virginia
Jenny West - Executive Director - Norge, VA

Women, Food & Agriculture Network
- Ames, IA

Estate Planners

J. Moore & Company, P.C.
- Roanoke, VA

Sullivan Andrews & Taylor, P.C.
- Virginia Beach, VA

Estate Planning Attorneys

Allan G. Donn, Esq.
Willcox & Savage, P.C. - Norfolk, VA

Ammon G. Dunton Jr.
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton, LLP - Managing Partner - White Stone, VA

Andrew Branan
The Branan Law Firm, PLLC - Hillsborough, NC

Angela M. Griffith
Conway & Pannell PLLC - Attorney, of Counsel - McLean, VA

Christine Nguyen Piersall
Williams Mullen - Partner - Norfolk, VA

Craig H. Smith
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton, LLP - White Stone, VA

David D. Addison
Williams Mullen - Partner - Richmond, VA

David S. Lionberger
Hirschler Fleischer - Richmond, VA

Fielding L. Williams, Jr.
Williams Mullen - Richmond, VA

Flora Pettit, Attorneys at Law
- Harrisonburg, VA

Henry P. Custis, Jr.
Custis, Lewis & Dix, L.L.P. - Accomac, VA

Julie A. King, Esq.
- Charlottesville, VA

Lee Stephens, Esq.
Lee Stephens Law, PLC - Irvington, VA

Mark E. Slaughter
Willcox Savage - Member - Norfolk, VA

Mark W. Botkin
BotkinRose PLC - Harrisonburg, VA

Misti Schmidt
Conservation Partners LLP - Partner - Oakland, CA

Morgan W. Alley
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton, L.L.P. - White Stone, VA

Neil L. Rose
Willcox Savage - Member - Norfolk, VA

Paul G. Izzo
Thompson McMullan PC - Director - Richmond, VA

Peter M. Huber
Willcox Savage - Member - Norfolk, VA

Simon Sidamon-Eristof
Kalbian Hagerty LLP - of Counsel - Washington, DC

Stephen G. Reardon
Spotts Fain - Director, Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Stephen W. Lemon, Esq.
Martin, Hopkins & Lemon, P.C. - Roanoke, VA

Federal and State Tax Incentives and Programs

Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center - Raleigh, NC

Federal Endangered Species Tax Deduction
US Fish and Wildlife Service - Arlington, VA

Land Preservation Tax Credit
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation - Richmond, VA

Land Trusts

American Battlefield Trust
- Washington , DC

American Farmland Trust
- Washington, DC

Capital Region Land Conservancy
Jane Myers - Land Conservation Manager - Richmond, VA

Catoctin Land Trust
- Frederick, MD

Green Fence Conservation Trust
- Apex, NC

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy
- Williamsburg, VA

Land Trust of Virginia
- Middleburg, VA

Living River Restoration Trust
- Portsmouth, VA

North American Land Trust
Monica McQuail - Communications & Stewardship Assistant - Chadds Ford, PA

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Missoula, MT

Sportsmen's National Land Trust
- Agawam, MA

The Nature Conservancy, Virginia
- Charlottesville, VA

Trout Unlimited
Chris Wood - President and Chief Executive Officer - Arlington, VA

Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
Hali Plourde-Rogers - Executive Director - Belle Haven, VA

Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Jason McGarvey - Communications and Outreach Manager - Richmond, VA

Lawyers

Mike Brown
Baumgardner, Brown & Cupp, PLC - Washington, VA

Ronald G. Doucette
Doucette Law Firm, PLC - Leesburg, VA

William L. Heartwell, III
William L. Heartwell, III, P.C. - Fincastle, VA

Natural Resource Law Attorneys

Blair Schilling
Fishman Haygood, LLP - Attorney - New Orleans, LA

Bobby Lamb
Robert Lamb PLLC - Washington, DC

Bradley Raffle
Conservation Capital - CEO - Eugene, OR

Brooks M. Smith
Troutman Sanders - Partner - Richmond, VA

C. Timothy Lindstrom
Conservation Easement Lawyer - Washington, VA

Conservation Partners, LLC
- Lexington, VA

David S. Lionberger
Hirschler Fleischer - Richmond, VA

Endangered Species Law and Policy Group
Nossaman LLP - Los Angeles, CA

Flora Pettit, Attorneys at Law
- Harrisonburg, VA

Henry R. 'Speaker' Pollard, V
Partner - Williams Mullen - Richmond, VA

James M. Ash
Husch Blackwell LLP - Kansas City, MO

James P. Moorhead
Moorhead Law Group, LLC - Founder and Principal - Chicago, IL

John H. Foote
Walsh Colucci Lubeley & Walsh, PC - Shareholder - Prince William, VA

John W. Anderson
Spotts Fain - Director/Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Kerry Hutcherson
Rudy, Coyner and Associates - Chesterfield, VA

M. Reed Hopper
Pacific Legal Foundation - Principal Attorney, National Litigation Center - Sacramento, CA

Meade A. Spotts
Spotts Fain - Attorney, Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Michael J. Rothermel
Spotts Fain - Senior Counsel - Richmond, VA

Misti Schmidt
Conservation Partners LLP - Partner - Oakland, CA

Reed W. Neuman
Nossaman LLP - Partner - Washington, DC

Stephen J. Small, Esq.
Law Office of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C. - Cambridge, MA

Thomas J. (TJ) Mascia
Troutman Sanders - Associate - Richmond, VA

Warren L. Tisdale
Willcox Savage - Norfolk, VA

State Funding / Technical Resources

AgrAbility Virginia
Kirk Ballin - Salem, VA

Agricultural Best Management Practices Loan Program
- Richmond, VA

Agricultural Reserve Program
Jenny McPherson - Agricultural Reserve Program Coordinator - Virginia Beach, VA

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Chesapeake Forest Fund Tree Planting Program
Jenny McGarvey - Program Manager - Richmond, VA

Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership
Dr. Lisa Havel - Coordinator - Arlington, VA

Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture
Stephen G. Perry - Coordinator - Sanbornton, NH

Emerald Ash Borer Treatment Program
Meredith Bean - EAB Coordinator - Charlottesville, VA

Firewise Communities - Virginia
John Miller - Virginia Department of Forestry - Charlottesville, VA

GoodFires
Southern Group of State Foresters - Garner, NC

Mississippi Interstate Cooperative Resource Association
- Marion, IL

Money for Mitigation Grant Program
John Miller - Chief, Resource Protection - Charlottesville, VA

National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative
John Doty - Communications Director - Knoxville, TN

Open Space and Agricultural Preservation Program
John Harbin - OSAP Administrator - Chesapeake, VA

Project WILD - Virginia
Suzie Gilley - Project WILD Coordinator - Henrico, VA

Purchase Of Development Rights Program
Peter Stith - PDR Administrator - Eastville, VA

Reforestation of Timberlands Program
Virginia Department of Forestry - Charlottesville, VA

Riparian Forest Buffer Tax Credit
Virginia Department of Forestry - Charlottesville, VA

Small Farms Nutrient Management Program
Tad Williams - Dairy and Small Farms Nutrient Management Specialist - Richmond, VA

Southeast Prescribed Fire Update
North Carolina State University Extension Forestry - Raleigh, NC

Terry Lasher
Virginia Department of Forestry - Assistant State Forest Manager - Charlottesville, VA

The Bobwhite Quail in Virginia
VDGIF - Richmond, VA

The Chesapeake Bay Program
Dana Aunkst - Director - Annapolis, MD

Virginia Agricultural BMP Cost Share (VACS) Program
Department of Conservation and Recreation - Soil and Water - Richmond, VA

Virginia Agricultural BMP Tax Credit Program
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation - Soil and Water - Richmond, VA

Virginia Agricultural Stewardship Program
Darrell Marshall - Agricultural Stewardship Program Manager - Richmond, VA

Virginia Beginning Farmer and Rancher Coalition Program
Kim Niewolny - Program Director and Extension Specialist - Blacksburg, VA

Virginia Clean Water Revolving Loan Fund
Walter Gills - Program Manager - Richmond, VA

Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP)
Kevin McLean - VCAP Coordinator - Mechanicsville, VA

Virginia Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program
- Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation - Richmond, VA

Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
- Richmond, VA

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Virginia Department of Forestry - Charlottesville, VA

Virginia Forest Landowner Education Program
Jennifer Gagnon - Virginia Cooperative Extension - Blacksburg, VA

Virginia Land Conservation Foundation
Sarah Richardson - Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation - Richmond, VA

Virginia Open-Space Lands Preservation Trust Fund
Brett Christina Glymph - Director, Virginia Outdoors Foundation - Warrenton, VA

Virginia Recreational Trails Fund
Kristal McKelvey - Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation - Richmond, VA

Virginia Wildfire and Forest Protection
Virginia Department of Forestry - Fred Turck - Charlottesville, VA

Whitewater to Bluewater Project
Lisa Havel - Atlantic Coastal Fish Habitat Partnership Coordinator - Arlington, VA

Woodland Steward Series
NC Forest Service (NCFS) - Raleigh, NC

Tax Advisors

J. Moore & Company, P.C.
- Roanoke, VA

Jason B. Stinson, CCIM
Commercial Realty Services of Alabama, LLC - Managing Member & Principal - Gadsden, AL

The Simple Dollar
Trent Ham - Founder & ContributorIA

Water Street Solutions
- Peoria, IL

Tax Credit Brokers

Atoka Conservation Exchange LLC
- Richmond, VA

Conservation Partners, LLC
- Lexington, VA

David S. Lionberger
Hirschler Fleischer - Richmond, VA

Foss & Company
Tax Credit Specialists - San Francisco, CA

Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Ariel Steele, Owner - Longmont, CO

Virginia Conservation Credit Exchange, LLC
Todd Hochrein - Charlottesville, VA

Virginia Easement Exchange, LLC
- Marshall, VA

Conservation Markets

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Conservation Almanac
The Trust for Public Land has created the Conservation Almanac, which is a great resource for understanding the context of the conservation and conservation finance movements. Here you can see how much land has been protected in your state, which state and federal agencies have protected the land, the ratio of money spent to land conserved, and policies and programs that could help your state reach its conservation objectives.

Conservation Corridor Toolkit
Landscape corridors are among the most important conservation strategies in the face of global changes such as habitat fragmentation, habitat destruction, and climate change. We aim to bridge the science and practice of conservation corridors. Conservation Corridor will provide up-to-date findings from science that will inform applied conservation. And, we will highlight new innovations in applied conservation, with the goal of guiding the direction of applied science toward management needs. Click Here.

COMET-FARM™
COMET-FARM™ is a whole farm and ranch carbon and greenhouse gas accounting system. The tool guides you through describing your farm and ranch management practices including alternative future management scenarios. Once complete, a report is generated comparing the carbon changes and greenhouse gas emissions between your current management practices and future scenarios.

Mitigation and Conservation Banking
By: K Gregg Elliott
To many landowners a threatened or endangered (T&E) species on their property is anathema because it can herald all kinds of state and federal limitations on use of their property.& ...

Investing in the Commonwealth's Land and Water
By: Virginia Forever
Virginia Forever's Five-Year Plan, 2015-2019

Alternatives to Real Estate Development Deriving Financial Benefits from Conservation and Mitigation Projects in Virginia - a Lender's Collateral Concerns
By: R. Lee Stephens, Jr and Robert J. Allen
In the current economic environment, landowners previously contemplating development or sale of their real property are seeking alternative ways to generate cash flow from their real property assets.

Where Is the Carbon? Carbon Sequestration Potential from Private Forestland in the Southern United States
By: Christopher S. Galik, Brian C. Murray, and D. Evan Mercer
Uncertainty surrounding the future supply of timber in the southern United States prompted the question, “Where is all the wood?” (Cubbage et al.

The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative - A range-wide plan for recovering bobwhites
By: The National Bobwhite Technical Committee. 2011. Palmer, W.E., T.M. Terhune, and D.F. McKenzie (eds)
The National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) is the unified range-wide strategy of 25 state wildlife agencies, with numerous conservation group and research institution partners, to achieve widespread restoration of native grassland habitats and huntable populations of wild quail.

A Guide to Successful Wildlife Food Plots - Blending Science with Common Sense
By: Craig A. Harper
This publication provides technical guidance and practical information for wildlife management beyond planting and managing food plots. ...

Leveraging the Landscape - State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2012
By: Forest Trends
Over the last three years, projects that address the relationships between carbon and forests have moved from the sidelines of international climate action to center field.

The Potential for Soil Carbon Sequestration
By: Luke Nave University of Michigan Biological Station
Luke Nave from the University of Michigan Biological Station presents this video short course on the fact that the largest terrestrial carbon pool is contained in soils.

Grasslands and Carbon - Processes and Trends
By: Rebecca McCulley University of Kentucky, Dept. of Plant & Soil Sciences
Rebecca McCulley of the University of Kentucky, Dept. of Plant & Soil Sciences presents this video short course on Grasslands, which make up 30% of the U.S ...

Forests and Carbon - Trends and Data for the U.S.
By: Christopher Woodall USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station
In this video short course you can get the scoop on forestland carbon storage in the United States, which helps offset approximately 12% of US carbon emissions from fossil fuels.

Forest Carbon for the Private Landowner (Part 2) - Protocols, Projects and Opportunities
Andrea Tuttle presents this video short course ont forest carbon markets and how these can be used to capture and hold carbon on the landscape.

Forest Carbon for the Private Landowner (Part 1) - Basics of Carbon Offsets, Markets, and Trading
By: Sarah Hines USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area State & Private Forestry
Wondering about carbon offsets, credits, baselines, permanence and leakage? Get the carbon basics here and find out why forest offsets could be a bridge to the future.

Guide to Environmental Markets for Farmers and Ranchers
By: Don Stuart, Dennis Canty, and Katherine Killebrew
The Guide to Environmental Markets for Farmers and Ranchers, produced by the American Farmland Trust (AFT), provides an overview of available market opportunities for environmental credits and services, how farmers and ranchers can get involved in them, and ways to encourage their continued growth.

Innovations in Market-Based Watershed Conservation in the United States - Payments for Watershed Services for Agricultural and Forest Landowners
By: Terhi Majanen, Rachel Friedman, and Jeffrey C. Milder
New innovations in payments for watershed services (PWS) have emerged in the past decade and are pointing the way toward watershed protection approaches that might effectively complement existing government conservation programs and incentives for rural landowners.

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due - Increasing Landowner Compensation for Ecosystem Services
By: Gina L. LaRocco and Robert L. Deal
This report provides an overview of existing payment programs and markets, and discusses the concepts of bundling and stacking, offer policy recommendations, and provides examples of current efforts to more effectively integrate payment opportunities for landowners.

Ecosystem Service Market Development - The Role and Opportunity for Finance
By: Ray Hartwell and Bruce Aylward Ecosystem Economics LLC
The creation of tradable credits for the development or preservation of ecosystem services has emerged as a method to provide such payments.

Getting Paid for Stewardship - An Agricultural Community Water Quality Trading Guide
By: Conservation Technology Information Center
Agricultural producers are finding opportunities to get paid for their stewardship activities through water quality trading. Generally, they sell the amount of nutrients or sediment reduced by conservation practices.

Meeting Regulatory Needs with Voluntary Conservation
By: Christopher Hartley United States Department of Agriculture - Office of Environmental Markets
Take a look at a PowerPoint presentation on market-based approaches as a voluntary means to reduce the cost of compliance with environmental regulations.& ...

Natural Resources Credit Trading Reference
By: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
The purpose of the NRCS Natural Resource Credit Trading Reference is to provide an understanding of how environmental credit trading can be used to increase the provision of conservation and ecosystem services by agriculture.

Payments for Forest Carbon
By: Northern Forest Center, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences
Payments for forest carbon sequestration are an emerging opportunity for small forest owners to earn additional income, and in turn to sustain both the economic and ecological values of the Northern Forest.

Guidance for the Establishment, Use, and Operation of Conservation Banks
By: US Fish and Wildlife Service
This document provides guidance on the establishment, use, and operation of conservation banks for the purpose of providing a tool for offset mitigating adverse impacts to species listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended.

Conservation Banking
By: US Fish and Wildlife Service
This fact sheet was published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in August 2012 is a two page primer on conservation banking with some history and information on how these banks are working today to promote species conservation and help mitigate habitat loss.

Conservation buffers - wildlife benefits in Southeastern agricultural systems
By: L. W. Burger
Conservation buffers such as filter strips, riparian buffers, grassed waterways, and field borders are especially applicable to southeastern landscapes and have multiple environmental benefits while serving to significantly improve wildlife habitats.

LandServer
LandServer is a web-based tool that provides farmers and woodland owners with a quick and easy natural resource assessment, an evaluation of their property’s potential to receive payments for implementing conservation actions, and information on how to get started. Your report is only accessed with your secure User ID and password.

LandServer produces reports by analyzing a robust database of geographic, ecological, physical, and other data sets. LandServer is a program of Pinchot Institute for Conservation.

A Landowner’s Guide to Carbon Sequestration Credits
This guide offers a path for local landowners to earn additional income while helping diminish adverse effects of global climate change through implementation of carbon sequestration and other stackable incentives.

Show Conservation Markets Organizations & Professionals (338)

There are 338 resources serving Southeast Virginia Region in the following categories:

Map of Conservation Markets Organizations & Professionals serving Southeast Virginia Region

Biologists / Ecologists

Aaron Proctor
VDGIF Biologist - Charles City, VA

Anderson J. Hudson, PWS, PWD
Virginia Wetland Consulting - Quinton, VA

David Bryan
Private Lands Biologist - Fredericksburg, VA

Eco-Asset Solutions & Innovations LLC
William Coleman - Co-Founder & CEO - Redwood City, CA

Environmental Services, Inc.
Gary Howalt - Jacksonville, FL

Jackson Environmental Consulting Services, LLC
Jeremy L.Jackson - Ecologist, President/Owner - Richmond, KY

Jay Howell
Small Game Project Leader - Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries - Henrico, VA

Marc Puckett
Small Game Project Leader - Farmville, VA

Peter Acker
Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries - Biologist - Chesapeake, VA

Robert Glennon
Private Lands Biologist - Charles City, VA

The Bobwhite Quail in Virginia
VDGIF - Richmond, VA

Todd Engelmeyer
VDGIF Biologist - Charles City, VA

Carbon Credits and Sequestration

American Carbon Registry
John Kadyszewski - Director - Arlington, VA

Bio-Logical Capital
Grant McCargo - Managing Director, Founder and CEO - Denver, CO

Blue Source
Jessica Stalberger - Office Manager - Murray, UT

Bradley Raffle
Conservation Capital - CEO - Eugene, OR

Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme
Forest Trends (attention: BBOP Secretariat) - Washington, DC

C2Invest, LLC
- The Plains, VA

Carbon Cycle Institute (CCI)
- Nicasio, CA

Chicago Climate Exchange
Offset Registry - Chicago, IL

Climate Action Reserve
Gillian Calof - Interim-President/Operations Director - Los Angeles, CA

Cranston’s Mill Pond Nutrient Bank
Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Land Trust - Brent Fults - Richmond, VA

Ecosystem Economics LLC
- Bend, OR

Ecosystem Investment Partners
- Baltimore, MD

Ecosystem Services Market Consortium
Debbie Reed - Executive Director - Falls Church, VA

ENVIRON
- Arlington, VA

Environmental Services, Inc.
Gary Howalt - Jacksonville, FL

EP Carbon
Zach Barbane - Director, Projects and Operations - Berkeley, CA

Evergreen Environmental, LLC
- Wayne, NJ

Finite Carbon
- Wayne, PA

Forest Carbon Fund
- Berkeley, CA

Forest Carbon Portal
Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace - Washington, DC

Forest Trends
Forest Trends Association - Washington, DC

Green Assets, Inc
- Wilmington, NC

ImageTree
- Morgantown, WV

Indigo Ag
- Boston, MA

Resource Environmental Solutions (RES)
Darrell Whitley - Chief Operating Officer - Houston, TX

TerraCarbon LLC
- Peoria, IL

The Climate Trust
- Portland, OR

Trout Headwaters, Inc.
- Livingston, MT

Conservation Credit Markets

Blue Source
Jessica Stalberger - Office Manager - Murray, UT

Bradley Raffle
Conservation Capital - CEO - Eugene, OR

Brian T. Chase
Spotts Fain - Director, Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Dave Gibson
IFC/World Bank - Senior Environmental Risk Specialist - Warrenton, VA

Eco-Asset Solutions & Innovations LLC
William Coleman - Co-Founder & CEO - Redwood City, CA

Ecosystem Economics LLC
- Bend, OR

Ecosystem Services Exchange
Paul Sweeney - Director of Conservation Planning - Alexandria, VA

Ecosystem Services Market Consortium
Debbie Reed - Executive Director - Falls Church, VA

EP Carbon
Zach Barbane - Director, Projects and Operations - Berkeley, CA

Falling Springs, LLC
Aaron Revere - President & General Manager - Richmond, VA

Forest Carbon Fund
- Berkeley, CA

Indigo Ag
- Boston, MA

John W. Anderson
Spotts Fain - Director/Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Marstel-Day, LLC
- Fredericksburg, VA

Meade A. Spotts
Spotts Fain - Attorney, Shareholder - Richmond, VA

National Mitigation Banking Association
- Washington, DC

Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC
Ross Guidry - Region Land Manager - Lafayette, LA

Sustainable Solutions LLC
James Remuzzi - President and Founder - Shepherdstown, WV

Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Ariel Steele, Owner - Longmont, CO

TerraCarbon LLC
- Peoria, IL

Thomas J. (TJ) Mascia
Troutman Sanders - Associate - Richmond, VA

Fisheries Biologists

Jackson Environmental Consulting Services, LLC
Jeremy L.Jackson - Ecologist, President/Owner - Richmond, KY

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Virginia Field Office
Cindy Schulz - Field Supervisor - Gloucester, VA

Foresters

Allen Watson
Hatchet Creek Forestry Services - Wirtz, VA

American Forest Management
- Charlotte, NC

Andrew J. Lindberg
Timber Marketing and Management - Area Manager - Chesterfield, VA

Andy Eubank
Forestry Management Services - Winchester, VA

Ashby Brown
Woods, Water and Wildlife Inc. - Carrsville, VA

Ben Balke
Eastern Forest Consultants LLC - Christiansburg, VA

Ben Cole
Bickford Timber and Land Management - Appomattox, VA

Ben Lane
Eastern Virginia Forestry Services LLC - Zuni, VA

Bill Bond
Parkton Woodland Services - Registered Professional Forester - Myersville, MD

Bill Wray
Wray Forestry Consulting - Richmond, VA

Billy Newman
EnviroFor, LLC - Shipman, VA

Blue Ridge Forestry Consulting, Inc.
Jeremy A. Clem - Consulting Forester - Flint Hill, VA

Bob Warring, ACF
Bob Warring Forestry Services - Owner - Scottsville, VA

Brandon Martin
Directions Land Mgt. - Blackstone, VA

Brian Lacey
Virginia Department of Forestry - Pine Sustainability Forester - Waverly, VA

Brian S. Keiling
Keiling Forestry Consulting, Inc. - Christiansburg, VA

Brian W. Morse
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Certified Wildlife Biologist - Afton, VA

Bruce A. Riley
Riley Forestry - Owner, Forester - Halifax, VA

Carolyn Mulligan
American Forest Management - District Manager - Danville , VA

Charles B. Harding Jr.
Harding Forestry & Realty Company - Emporia, VA

Charles D. Kasper
Kasper Timber Company - Emporia, VA

Charles H. Turner, ACF
CHT Forestry, LLC - Owner - Branchville, VA

Charles Huppuch
- Verona, VA

Charles M. Little
Interstate Forest Product - Brodnax, VA

Charlie R. Wade, ACF
SilviaTerra - Roanoke, VA

Christoper Kappa
Phoenix Forestry Services - Charlottesville, VA

Christopher B. Reid, ACF
F & W Forestry Services, Inc. - Forester - Charlottesville, VA

Chuck Bates
Forestry & Wildlife Consulting Services - Gretna, VA

Clifton Rexrode
Appalachian Forestry Services - Waynesboro, VA

Clint Phegley
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Aylett, VA

D. Brad White
Clearwater Forestry Consultants LLC - Hardy, VA

Dale Turner
Turner Forestry Services - Louisa, VA

Dan Parker
Tillinghast & Neely - Danville, WV

Dan Wilson
Three Rivers Forestry - Senior Forester - Tappahannock, VA

Dana Malone
Malone Forestry Consulting - Purcellville, VA

Daniel F. Perkins
Registered Forester NC #1439 - Chester, VA

Daniel Hammond
H & H Forest Management, Inc. - South Hill, VA

Daniel R. Wilson
Three Rivers Forestry - Tappahannock, VA

Dave Paduda
Consulting Forester - Arlington, VA

Dave Terwilliger
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Aylett, VA

David A. Sirna
Sirna Forestry Consulting Service - Bunker Hill, WV

David Anderton
American Forest Management - Region Manager - Richmond, VA

David C. Froggatt
Misty Woods LLC - Prince George, VA

David C. Henderson
Henderson Forestry Consultants, PA - President - Asheboro, NC

David E. Birdsall Jr.
D. E. Birdsall Forestry Inc. - Gloucester, VA

David L. Thomas
Old Dominion Forestry - Luray, VA

David R. Martin Jr.
Martin Forestry & Realty - Chase CIty, VA

David R. Sheldon
Sheldon Forestry Inc. - King & Queen, VA

David Slack
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Aylett, VA

David W. Sandman
- Pamplin, VA

Dean T. Blount, ACF
Tyler Blount, Consulting Forestry, LLC - Consulting Forester/Realtor - Troutville, VA

Delmer Aylor
Aylor Consulting Forestry - Chase City, VA

Donald N. Parris
Timber Consultants, Inc. - Halifax, VA

Donald N. Parris
Timber Consultants, Inc. - Concord, VA

Doug Audley
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Dinwiddie, VA

Douglas F. Brewster
Wood Brokers Company Inc. - Chester, VA

Dowdy's Forest & Land Management
Matthew E. Dowdy - Louisa, VA

Dowdy's Forest and Land Management
Matt Dowdy - Louisa, VA

Duane Means
Arrow Forestry - New Castle, VA

Edward G. Tugwell
Tugwell Consulting Forestry, P.A. - President - Asheboro, NC

Edward R. (Reed) Stanley
- Halifax, VA

Eric Blake
Singletree Forestry Services LLC - New Kent, VA

F&W Forestry Services
- Albany, GA

Frank O. Brooks Jr.
Forest Resources Management Inc. - Aylett, VA

Fred Schatzki
American Forest Management - Forester - Louisa, VA

G. Richard Griffin Jr.
G. Richard Griffin Jr Consulting Forester - Kenbridge, VA

Gary Bratton
American Forest Management - Director, Appraisal Services / ARA (Accredited Rural Appraiser) - Sumter, SC

Gary R. Long, ACF
Ridgerunner Forestry, LLC - Pilot, VA

Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants
- Raleigh, NC

George W. Peery Jr.
Peery Forestry Services - Chatham, VA

Glen Worrell, Jr., ACF
F&W Forestry Services - Regional Manager - Charlottesville, VA

Greg Hutson
Little River Timber Management, Inc. - Maryville, TN

Gregory Garrison
Timber Marketing and Management - Chesterfield, VA

Heather Dowling
Virginia Department of Forestry - Senior Area Forester - Dinwiddie, VA

Henry A. Randolph
Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants - Partner - Raleigh, NC

Homer G. Smith Jr.
Smith Forestry & Realty Company - Drakes Branch, VA

Hunter Darden
Hunter Darden III Consulting Forester - Franklin, VA

James C. Munden
- Midlothian, VA

James D. Funk, ACF
Forest Synergy, LLC - Locust Grove, VA

James F. Wagner
- Chatham, VA

James Furnish
Forestry Consultant - Rockville, MD

James T. O'Hare
Consulting Forester - Staunton, VA

Jeffrey Bent
- Petersburg, VA

Jeremey Falkenau
Virginia Department of Forestry - Senior Area Forester - Aylett, VA

Jess Crawford
South Rivers Forestry Consultants, LLC - King William, VA

Jim Schroering
Virginia Department of Forestry - Longleaf Pine Coordinator - Waverly, VA

Jim Vadas
Clearwater Forestry Services - Mattaponi, VA

Joe Hedrick
Natural Bridge Forestry Consultants - Natural Bridge Station, VA

Joe Secoges
Eastern Forest Consultants LLC - Christiansburg, VA

John A.Heard
- Berryville, VA

John C. Magruder
Three Rivers Forestry - Consulting Forester - Tappahannock, VA

John C. Smith
John Smith Forestry Services - Consulting Forester - Richmond, VA

John Coleman
- Woodstock, VA

John H. (Jay) Crowder
- Boydton, VA

John H. Kight, II, ACF
Frazier Consulting Foresters, P.C. - Forester - Elizabeth City, NC

John H. Washburn
John H. Washburn Inc. - Kenbridge, VA

John Holstine
Holstine Forestry Consulting LLC - Charleston, WV

John J. West
- Consulting Forester - Bluefield, VA

John Paul Ewan
Three Rivers Forestry - Forester - Tappahannock, VA

John Perry
- Rocky Gap, VA

John R. (Jack) Cannon
J. R. Cannon, LLC - Emporia, VA

John R. Reid, ACF
Forest Resources Management, Inc. - Aylett, VA

John Shipley
Carolina Forestry Inc. - Manager Winston-Salem, NC Office - Winston-Salem, NC

Johnny Bickford
Bickford Timber & Land Mgt. Inc. - New Canton, VA

Johnny Robertson
- Chester, VA

Johnny Walker
Walker Enterprises - Big Stone Gap, VA

Kathleen Ogilvy
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Dinwiddie, VA

Kea Turner
Turner Forestry LLC - Carrsville, VA

Keith Brouillard
Carolina Forestry - Co-Owner - Raleigh, NC

Keith P. Newcomer
- Franklin, VA

Ken Sterner
Virginia Department of Forestry - Senior Area Forester - Gloucester, VA

Kevin A. Belt
Appalachian Forestry - Johnson City, TN

Kirby Woolfolk
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Dinwiddie, VA

Larry Edwards
- Greenville, VA

Larry J. Harrup
Southern Forestry LLC - Valentines, VA

Larry Layman
Layman Forestry Services - Halifax, VA

Lee Bethea
- McKenney, VA

Leif Riddervold
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Environmental Scientist - Afton, VA

Lisa Deaton
Virginia Department of Forestry - Forester - Gloucester, VA

Louis Brossy
Brossy Forestry Consulting - Consulting Forester - Wytheville, VA

Lueke Timber and Realty
- Providence Forge, Va

Manij Upadhyay
Virginia Department of Forestry - Forester - Courtland, VA

Mark D. Sims
Sims Forestry Services - Staunton, VA

Mark L. Brashears
- Consulting Forester - Romney, WV

Matthew B. Gillette, ACF
Rock Springs Forestry, Inc. - Capron, VA

McChesney 'Ches' Goodall III
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Consulting Forester - Afton, VA

Meghan Mulroy
Virginia Department of Forestry - Natural Resource Specialist - Waverly, VA

Michael C. Boggs
Real Estate Appraiser/Consulting Forester - Spotsylvania, VA

Michael H. Ballinger
Gelbert, Fullbright & Randolph Forestry Consultants - Harvest Forester - Raleigh, NC

Michael Harold
Walnut Creek Forestry - Harrisonburg, VA

Michael J.Vaughan
Southern Land & Forest, Inc. - President - Weldon, NC

Michael Skinner
Confluence Forestry & Land Management Services, Inc. - President - Blacksburg, VA

Michael W. Bobb
Consulting Forester LLC - Spotsylvania, VA

Mike Santucci
Virginia Department of Forestry - Forestland Conservation Program Manager - Charlottesville, VA

Milo Crawford
Chestnut Creek Forestry - Galax, VA

Molly O'Liddy
Virginia Department of Forestry - Community Forester - Richmond, VA

Nathan P. Rutherford
South Rivers Forestry Consultants, LLC - Management Forester - Carson, VA

Nathan R. Green
N. R. Green Resource Consulting LLC - Christiansburg, VA

Neil Thorne
Thorne Resource Consulting LLC - Strasburg, VA

Oliver Dodge
- Richmond, VA

Patrick J. Cleary, ACF
Highlands Forestry, Inc. - Prestonburg, KY

Paul M. Haney, ACF
Environmental Timber Management - President - Barboursville, VA

Paul Maslen
Parkton Woodland Services - Registered Professional Forester - Upperco, MD

Paul Verbyla
Verb LLC - Owner - Mathews, VA

Peter Gayer
PDG Forestry Services LLC - Forest, VA

Randy Kyner
C & K Forestry Services - Cumberland, Va

Rich Reuse
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Dinwiddie, VA

Richard Pace III
- Mt. Jackson, VA

Robbie Lewis
Virginia Department of Forestry - Senior Area Forester - Accomac, VA

Robert E. Smiley
Resource International - Ashland, VA

Rodney Finkbiner
Carolina Forestry - Owner - Raleigh, NC

Scott Bachman
Virginia Department of Forestry - Senior Area Forester - Courtland, VA

Scott F. Oertle
Piedmont Forestry - Appomattox, VA

Scott Talmage Young
Scott Talmage Young, Consulting Forester - Pilot, VA

Sean L. Nolan
F & W Forestry Services, Inc. - Charlottesville, VA

Shortleaf Pine Initiative
- Athens, GA

Sidney C. Sheldon
Sheldon Forestry Inc. - King & Queen Courthouse, VA

Southeast Prescribed Fire Update
North Carolina State University Extension Forestry - Raleigh, NC

Southern Group of State Foresters
- Garner, NC

Stephen A. Whitfield, ACF
Whitfield Forestry Consultants - Raleigh, NC

Stephen B. Jones
Moss Side Consulting Forestry LLC - Smithfield, VA

Stephen D. Mallette
Resource Management Associates - Locustville, VA

Stephen P. Lindberg
Timber Marketing and Management - President, Area Manager - Chesterfield, VA

Steven Shuler
Shuler Timber Brokerage, Cruising & Appraisal - Rural Retreat, VA

SteveWagner
Summerfield Forestry Inc. - Lawrenceville, VA

Stuart Hale
The Forest Mgt. Company LLC - Abingdon, VA

Sustainable Solutions LLC
James Remuzzi - President and Founder - Shepherdstown, WV

Terry Lasher
Virginia Department of Forestry - Assistant State Forest Manager - Charlottesville, VA

The Longleaf Alliance
- Andalusia, AL

The Molpus Woodlands Group, LLC
- Jackson, MS

Thomas Moser
Blue Ridge Forestry Services Inc. - Floyd, VA

Thomas W. Reisinger, ACF
Reisinger & Associates, Inc. - President - Blacksburg, VA

Timberlands Unlimited, Inc.
David L. Jennette Jr - Windsor, NC

Todd Kready
Kready Consulting and Forest Land Mgt. - Bedford, VA

Travis Tindell
Virginia Department of Forestry - Area Forester - Courtland, VA

Virginia Department of Forestry
- Charlottesville, VA

Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group
- Afton, VA

Virginia Forestry Association
- Richmond, VA

W. Allen Jones, Jr., ACF
Parker Forestry Services, Inc. - Owner - Salisbury, MD

W. Michael Lane
- Suffolk, VA

W. Michael Lewis
W. Michael Lewis & Associates - Owner - Martinsville, VA

Wally Newman
Newman Forestry Services - Dinwiddie, VA

Wildland Forestry & Environmental, Inc
Brandon Price - Consulting Wildlife Forester - Madison, NC

Will Warekois
Southern Forestry Services LLL - Beaverdam, VA

William E. Pownall, ACF
Forest Resources Management, Inc. - Aylett, VA

William F. Gillette, ACF
Rock Springs Forestry, Inc - President, Forester - Capron, VA

William H. Lock & Associates, Inc.
William H. Lock - Greensboro, NC

William L. Braford
Blue Chip Forestry - Forester - Natural Bridge Station, VA

William L. Whitman
B & W Timber Company Inc. - Jarratt, VA

William M. Dryman, ACF
Bernard and Dryman Consulting Forestry, Inc. - President - Timberlake, NC

Zach Dowling
Virginia Department of Forestry - Senior Area Forester - Waverly, VA

Geologists / Hydrologists

ENVIRON
- Arlington, VA

Fogarty Land and Environmental
Michael Fogarty - Earth Scientist - Canaan, NH

Gulf Engineers & Consultants
Bob Boagni, P.E. - President - Baton Rouge, LA

James Armstrong
Rare Earth Science, LLC - Principal Geologist - Gunnison, CO

Sevee & Maher Engineers, Inc.
- Cumberland, ME

Land Trusts

American Battlefield Trust
- Washington , DC

American Farmland Trust
- Washington, DC

Capital Region Land Conservancy
Jane Myers - Land Conservation Manager - Richmond, VA

Catoctin Land Trust
- Frederick, MD

Green Fence Conservation Trust
- Apex, NC

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy
- Williamsburg, VA

Land Trust of Virginia
- Middleburg, VA

Living River Restoration Trust
- Portsmouth, VA

North American Land Trust
Monica McQuail - Communications & Stewardship Assistant - Chadds Ford, PA

Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
- Missoula, MT

Sportsmen's National Land Trust
- Agawam, MA

The Nature Conservancy, Virginia
- Charlottesville, VA

Trout Unlimited
Chris Wood - President and Chief Executive Officer - Arlington, VA

Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
Hali Plourde-Rogers - Executive Director - Belle Haven, VA

Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Jason McGarvey - Communications and Outreach Manager - Richmond, VA

Mediators

Design Workshop
Anna Laybourn - Principal - Aspen, CO

Resource Analytical & Management Group, LLC
Billy K. Lemons - President & Principal Consultant - Nacogdoches, TX

Mitigation Banks

Anderson J. Hudson, PWS, PWD
Virginia Wetland Consulting - Quinton, VA

Bio-Logical Capital
Grant McCargo - Managing Director, Founder and CEO - Denver, CO

Cranston’s Mill Pond Nutrient Bank
Chesapeake Bay Nutrient Land Trust - Brent Fults - Richmond, VA

Eco-Asset Solutions & Innovations LLC
William Coleman - Co-Founder & CEO - Redwood City, CA

Evergreen Environmental, LLC
- Wayne, NJ

Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC
Ross Guidry - Region Land Manager - Lafayette, LA

Restoration Systems
George Howard - Raleigh, NC

Natural Resource Law Attorneys

Blair Schilling
Fishman Haygood, LLP - Attorney - New Orleans, LA

Bobby Lamb
Robert Lamb PLLC - Washington, DC

Bradley Raffle
Conservation Capital - CEO - Eugene, OR

Brooks M. Smith
Troutman Sanders - Partner - Richmond, VA

C. Timothy Lindstrom
Conservation Easement Lawyer - Washington, VA

Conservation Partners, LLC
- Lexington, VA

David S. Lionberger
Hirschler Fleischer - Richmond, VA

Endangered Species Law and Policy Group
Nossaman LLP - Los Angeles, CA

Flora Pettit, Attorneys at Law
- Harrisonburg, VA

Henry R. 'Speaker' Pollard, V
Partner - Williams Mullen - Richmond, VA

James M. Ash
Husch Blackwell LLP - Kansas City, MO

James P. Moorhead
Moorhead Law Group, LLC - Founder and Principal - Chicago, IL

John H. Foote
Walsh Colucci Lubeley & Walsh, PC - Shareholder - Prince William, VA

John W. Anderson
Spotts Fain - Director/Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Kerry Hutcherson
Rudy, Coyner and Associates - Chesterfield, VA

M. Reed Hopper
Pacific Legal Foundation - Principal Attorney, National Litigation Center - Sacramento, CA

Meade A. Spotts
Spotts Fain - Attorney, Shareholder - Richmond, VA

Michael J. Rothermel
Spotts Fain - Senior Counsel - Richmond, VA

Misti Schmidt
Conservation Partners LLP - Partner - Oakland, CA

Reed W. Neuman
Nossaman LLP - Partner - Washington, DC

Stephen J. Small, Esq.
Law Office of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C. - Cambridge, MA

Thomas J. (TJ) Mascia
Troutman Sanders - Associate - Richmond, VA

Warren L. Tisdale
Willcox Savage - Norfolk, VA

Riparian and Wetlands Specialists

Anderson J. Hudson, PWS, PWD
Virginia Wetland Consulting - Quinton, VA

Brian W. Morse
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Certified Wildlife Biologist - Afton, VA

Environmental Services, Inc.
Gary Howalt - Jacksonville, FL

Evergreen Environmental, LLC
- Wayne, NJ

Field Sport Concepts, LTD
- Charlottesville, VA

Jackson Environmental Consulting Services, LLC
Jeremy L.Jackson - Ecologist, President/Owner - Richmond, KY

Leif Riddervold
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Environmental Scientist - Afton, VA

Marstel-Day, LLC
- Fredericksburg, VA

McChesney 'Ches' Goodall III
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Consulting Forester - Afton, VA

Sustainable Solutions LLC
James Remuzzi - President and Founder - Shepherdstown, WV

Wildlife / Habitat Specialists

500-Year Forest Foundation
- Charlottesville, VA

Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture
- Blacksburg, VA

Atlantic Coast Joint Venture
Debra Reynolds - Communication Coordinator - Hadley, MA

Blue Ridge Forestry Consulting, Inc.
Jeremy A. Clem - Consulting Forester - Flint Hill, VA

Brian W. Morse
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Certified Wildlife Biologist - Afton, VA

Bruce A. Riley
Riley Forestry - Owner, Forester - Halifax, VA

Daniel Hammond
H & H Forest Management, Inc. - South Hill, VA

Dowdy's Forest & Land Management
Matthew E. Dowdy - Louisa, VA

Environmental Services, Inc.
Gary Howalt - Jacksonville, FL

Gary R. Long, ACF
Ridgerunner Forestry, LLC - Pilot, VA

Hilliard Estate and Land Management
Carter Hilliard - Principal - Charlottesville, VA

Jackson Environmental Consulting Services, LLC
Jeremy L.Jackson - Ecologist, President/Owner - Richmond, KY

John C. Smith
John Smith Forestry Services - Consulting Forester - Richmond, VA

Leif Riddervold
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Environmental Scientist - Afton, VA

McChesney 'Ches' Goodall III
Virginia Forestry and Wildlife Group - Consulting Forester - Afton, VA

Michael Skinner
Confluence Forestry & Land Management Services, Inc. - President - Blacksburg, VA

Paul Maslen
Parkton Woodland Services - Registered Professional Forester - Upperco, MD

Sustainable Solutions LLC
James Remuzzi - President and Founder - Shepherdstown, WV

Thomas W. Reisinger, ACF
Reisinger & Associates, Inc. - President - Blacksburg, VA

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Virginia Field Office
Cindy Schulz - Field Supervisor - Gloucester, VA

Wildland Forestry & Environmental, Inc
Brandon Price - Consulting Wildlife Forester - Madison, NC

Woodland Vegetation Management
Daniel Reynolds - Farmville, NC

Conservation Tax Credits

Show Articles on Conservation Tax Credits (6)

The Law of Agricultural Land Preservation in the United States
By: Thomas Daniels and John Keene
Thomas Daniels and John Keene's new book breaks down the legal principles, federal and state requirements, and the legal issues that affect agricultural land preservation efforts.

Using the Conservation Tax Incentive
By: Land Trust Alliance
This short brochure summarizes the conservation easement tax incentive and provides answers to some frequently asked questions. For the late ...

Investing in the Commonwealth's Land and Water
By: Virginia Forever
Virginia Forever's Five-Year Plan, 2015-2019

Buying & Selling Virginia Tax Credits
By: Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance
Conservation easement donors often receive more in Virginia tax credits than is required to pay their state taxes. Tax credit holders can sell these additional credits on the free market.

Building Sustainable Farms, Ranches and Communities - A Guide to Federal Programs for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, Entrepreneurship, Conservation, Food Systems, and Community Development
By: Margaret Krome (MFAI), George Reistad (MFAI) and NSAC's policy staff
This guide lists funding opportunities offered by federal programs, and is indispensable for anyone seeking government help to foster their innovative enterprise in forestry and agriculture.

Federal Reforestation Deduction and Amortization
Qualified reforestation expenditures (or afforestation in the case of planting or seeding nonforested land) paid or incurred in a tax year to a maximum of $10,000 per qualified timber property (QTP) can be immediately deducted by all taxpayers, except trusts.

Show Conservation Tax Credits Organizations & Professionals (25)

There are 25 resources serving Southeast Virginia Region in the following categories:

Map of Conservation Tax Credits Organizations & Professionals serving Southeast Virginia Region

Tax Advisors

J. Moore & Company, P.C.
- Roanoke, VA

Jason B. Stinson, CCIM
Commercial Realty Services of Alabama, LLC - Managing Member & Principal - Gadsden, AL

The Simple Dollar
Trent Ham - Founder & ContributorIA

Water Street Solutions
- Peoria, IL

Tax Credit Brokers

Atoka Conservation Exchange LLC
- Richmond, VA

Conservation Partners, LLC
- Lexington, VA

David S. Lionberger
Hirschler Fleischer - Richmond, VA

Foss & Company
Tax Credit Specialists - San Francisco, CA

Tax Credit Connection, Inc.
Ariel Steele, Owner - Longmont, CO

Virginia Conservation Credit Exchange, LLC
Todd Hochrein - Charlottesville, VA

Virginia Easement Exchange, LLC
- Marshall, VA

Tax Law Attorneys

Allan G. Donn, Esq.
Willcox & Savage, P.C. - Norfolk, VA

Christine Nguyen Piersall
Williams Mullen - Partner - Norfolk, VA

Craig H. Smith
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton, LLP - White Stone, VA

David D. Addison
Williams Mullen - Partner - Richmond, VA

David S. Lionberger
Hirschler Fleischer - Richmond, VA

Flora Pettit, Attorneys at Law
- Harrisonburg, VA

James M. Ash
Husch Blackwell LLP - Kansas City, MO

Lee Stephens, Esq.
Lee Stephens Law, PLC - Irvington, VA

Mark E. Slaughter
Willcox Savage - Member - Norfolk, VA

Mark W. Botkin
BotkinRose PLC - Harrisonburg, VA

Morgan W. Alley
Dunton, Simmons & Dunton, L.L.P. - White Stone, VA

Neil L. Rose
Willcox Savage - Member - Norfolk, VA

Peter M. Huber
Willcox Savage - Member - Norfolk, VA

Stephen J. Small, Esq.
Law Office of Stephen J. Small, Esq., P.C. - Cambridge, MA

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Battlefield Conservation News Items

Group Aims to Tie Water Preservation to Battlefield Conservation - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
7/17/2019 4:04:29 PM
Group Aims to Tie Water Preservation to Battlefield Conservation West Virginia Public Broadcasting On this West Virginia Morning, after the 2014 Elk River chemical spill in the Kanawha Valley, the West Virginia Rivers Coalition created the “Safe Water WV.

Conservation Easements News Items

How Protecting Civil War Battlefields Helps Protect Drinking Water - WMKY
7/17/2019 7:07:21 PM
How Protecting Civil War Battlefields Helps Protect Drinking Water WMKY After the 2014 Elk River chemical spill in the Kanawha Valley, the West Virginia Rivers Coalition created the Safe Water WV initiative. The idea is simple: to ...

Nature Conservancy buys more than 150,000 acres in western Virginia - Roanoke Times
7/16/2019 1:00:00 PM
Nature Conservancy buys more than 150,000 acres in western Virginia Roanoke Times CHARLOTTESVILLE — The Charlottesville-based Nature Conservancy has closed on its purchase of 153,000 acres of Appalachian Mountain property in ...

W.Va. governor places Albemarle's largest conservation easement on local property • Charlottesville Tomorrow - Charlottesville Tomorrow
7/10/2019 3:00:00 AM
W.Va. governor places Albemarle's largest conservation easement on local property • Charlottesville Tomorrow Charlottesville Tomorrow West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is starting to clear his name in Albemarle County. After paying over $300000 in back taxes in early June, the James C. Justice ...

IRS Delivers Major Blow to Virginia’s Land Preservation Program - JD Supra
6/20/2019 3:00:00 AM
IRS Delivers Major Blow to Virginia’s Land Preservation Program JD Supra On June 11, 2019, the IRS and U.S. Department of Treasury issued final regulations requiring taxpayers to reduce their charitable contribution deduction by the ...

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia Announces Gifts Totaling $13.5M from Merrill & Jaffray Woodriff - NBC 29 News
6/17/2019 3:00:00 AM
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia Announces Gifts Totaling $13.5M from Merrill & Jaffray Woodriff NBC 29 News Largest gifts in club history to help expand the Boys & Girls Club's reach to Albemarle County youth and build great futures for area young people.

8 Virginia Inmates Have Suspected Overdoses, 1 Death - NBC 29 News
6/16/2019 3:00:00 AM
8 Virginia Inmates Have Suspected Overdoses, 1 Death NBC 29 News Virginia corrections officials say that eight inmates at a state prison suffered apparent overdoses, including one who died.

Sally Hudson Highlights Victors in Primary Races Across Central Virginia - NBC 29 News
6/11/2019 3:00:00 AM
Sally Hudson Highlights Victors in Primary Races Across Central Virginia NBC 29 News Sally Hudson has beaten out Kathy Galvin in the Democratic primary for the 57th District.

Senators Warner & Kaine Introduce Resolution Honoring Victims of Virginia Beach Shooting - NBC 29 News
6/11/2019 3:00:00 AM
Senators Warner & Kaine Introduce Resolution Honoring Victims of Virginia Beach Shooting NBC 29 News U.S. Senators Warner and Kaine introduced a resolution honoring the 12 victims of the mass shooting in Virginia Beach.

Closing Arguments Set in Virginia Abortion Regulations Trial - NBC 29 News
6/6/2019 3:00:00 AM
Closing Arguments Set in Virginia Abortion Regulations Trial NBC 29 News A federal trial is coming to an end in a lawsuit challenging four Virginia abortion laws that women's health groups say are overly restrictive and limit access to ...

Northam Announces Plan to Eliminate Racial Disparity in Maternal Mortality Rate - NBC 29 News
6/5/2019 3:00:00 AM
Northam Announces Plan to Eliminate Racial Disparity in Maternal Mortality Rate NBC 29 News Governor Ralph Northam plans to eliminate Virginia's racial disparity in the maternal mortality rate by 2025.

Northam's Call for Special Session on Gun Control Met with Republican Pushback - NBC 29 News
6/4/2019 3:00:00 AM
Northam's Call for Special Session on Gun Control Met with Republican Pushback NBC 29 News Governor Northam is calling Virginia legislators back to Richmond for a special session on gun-control.

West Virginia Organizations Unite for Watershed Improvement | Southern Edition - Lancaster Farming
6/1/2019 3:00:00 AM
West Virginia Organizations Unite for Watershed Improvement | Southern Edition Lancaster Farming The Eastern Panhandle Watershed Group Meeting is an annual event that brings together local non-profit watershed groups, agencies and other organizations ...

UVA Symposium Highlights Discoveries in Children's Health - NBC 29 News
5/30/2019 3:00:00 AM
UVA Symposium Highlights Discoveries in Children's Health NBC 29 News Researchers and doctors at the University of Virginia Children's Hospital are spotlighting some major discoveries from the past year.

Virginia Institute of Autism Welcome Recently-Signed Legislation - NBC 29 News
5/30/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia Institute of Autism Welcome Recently-Signed Legislation NBC 29 News New bills signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam will remove the age gap on health care coverage for autism treatment in Virginia.

Protecting the land: Land Trust of Virginia bestows honors on conservation leaders - Fauquier Times
5/24/2019 3:00:00 AM
Protecting the land: Land Trust of Virginia bestows honors on conservation leaders Fauquier Times There was much to celebrate in Middleburg Sunday, May 19, as the Land Trust of Virginia held its 21st annual garden party hosted by Mimi Abel Smith at ...

Emergency Medical Services Week in Va. Recognizes the Dedication of EMS Providers - NBC 29 News
5/20/2019 3:00:00 AM
Emergency Medical Services Week in Va. Recognizes the Dedication of EMS Providers NBC 29 News (RICHMOND, Va.) – Every day, someone suffers a medical emergency that requires help from Virginia's EMS providers. There is comfort in knowing that the ...

UVA Baseball Rallies to Beat Virginia Tech 5-3, Coach Brian O'Co - NBC 29 News
5/17/2019 3:00:00 AM
UVA Baseball Rallies to Beat Virginia Tech 5-3, Coach Brian O'Co NBC 29 News 'Hoos beat the Hokies in game two of the series 5-3.

UVa Men's Lax Beats Robert Morris 19-10 to Advance to NCAA Quarterfinals - NBC 29 News
5/11/2019 3:00:00 AM
UVa Men's Lax Beats Robert Morris 19-10 to Advance to NCAA Quarterfinals NBC 29 News The Virginia men's lacrosse team won an NCAA Tournament game for the first time since 2012, as the Cavaliers beat Robert Morris 19-10 Saturday night at ...

Nic Kent On Pace to Become first Wahoo Freshman in 20 Years to Lead Team in RBI - NBC 29 News
5/7/2019 3:00:00 AM
Nic Kent On Pace to Become first Wahoo Freshman in 20 Years to Lead Team in RBI NBC 29 News Nic Kent is on pace to become the first Wahoo in 20 years to lead Virginia in RBI as just a freshman.

VSP Investigates Pedestrian Fatality in Augusta County - NBC 29 News
5/1/2019 3:00:00 AM
VSP Investigates Pedestrian Fatality in Augusta County NBC 29 News Virginia State Police responded to a pedestrian fatality in Augusta County on Wednesday.

Virginia Dept. of Health Warns Residents of Increase in Hepatitis A Cases - NBC 29 News
4/25/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia Dept. of Health Warns Residents of Increase in Hepatitis A Cases NBC 29 News Virginia has reported a 132% increase in cases of HAV between Jan. 1 and April 19 compared to the same time period in 2018.

As Northern Virginia urbanizes, conservation trust tries new approaches - Inside NoVA
4/16/2019 3:00:00 AM
As Northern Virginia urbanizes, conservation trust tries new approaches Inside NoVA *Fresh* off celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust (NVCT), the group's leaders are seeking new ways to preserve land as ...

Virginia Announces Welcome Home and NCAA Championship Celebratio - NBC 29 News
4/9/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia Announces Welcome Home and NCAA Championship Celebratio NBC 29 News Virginia Athletics will host a celebration of the 2018-19 NCAA champion men's basketball team at Scott Stadium on Saturday, April 13 at 2 p.m..

University of Virginia School of Nursing Recognizes "Hidden Nurses" - NBC 29 News
4/6/2019 3:00:00 AM
University of Virginia School of Nursing Recognizes "Hidden Nurses" NBC 29 News The University of Virginia School of Nursing is recognizing a distinguished group of black nurses who studied in Charlottesville.

UVa Women's Tennis Tops Old Dominion 4-3 - NBC 29 News
3/29/2019 3:00:00 AM
UVa Women's Tennis Tops Old Dominion 4-3 NBC 29 News The Virginia women's tennis team opened up a four match homestand with a 4-3 win over Old Dominion on Thursday at the Snyder Tennis Center.

Police: 2 Dead, Multiple Injuries in Charter Bus Crash on I-95 - NBC 29 News
3/19/2019 3:00:00 AM
Police: 2 Dead, Multiple Injuries in Charter Bus Crash on I-95 NBC 29 News Authorities in Virginia say charges are pending against the driver of a commercial bus that overturned while traveling from Florida to New York, killing two people ...

Charlottesville City Council Video Replaced with Anti-Abortion Film - NBC 29 News
3/6/2019 3:00:00 AM
Charlottesville City Council Video Replaced with Anti-Abortion Film NBC 29 News Civic-minded Virginia residents logging on to a city website expected to find video of the most recent Charlottesville City Council meeting, but were instead ...

Land Trust of Virginia Formalizes Baldwin Farm Protection Fund - Loudoun Now
3/1/2019 3:00:00 AM
Land Trust of Virginia Formalizes Baldwin Farm Protection Fund Loudoun Now On Jan. 26 the Land Trust of Virginia's Board of Directors formally established the Malcolm Forbes Baldwin Fund to help pay for conservation easements to ...

KEN PERROTTE: Dwindling deer population a diverse problem - Fredericksburg.com
2/27/2019 3:00:00 AM
KEN PERROTTE: Dwindling deer population a diverse problem Fredericksburg.com THE late Merle Haggard wondered in a 1982 song if “the good times were really over for good.” If you're a white-tailed deer hunter in Virginia, living close to the.

Albemarle Co. Reaches Conservation Milestone, Resources on Land Easement - NBC 29 News
2/24/2019 3:00:00 AM
Albemarle Co. Reaches Conservation Milestone, Resources on Land Easement NBC 29 News Albemarle is now the second county in Virginia to reach a major conservation milestone. Albemarle County currently has over 100000 acres of land under ...

Governor Northam Signs Tax Conformity Legislation - NBC 29 News
2/15/2019 3:00:00 AM
Governor Northam Signs Tax Conformity Legislation NBC 29 News RICHMOND — Today, Governor Ralph Northam signed legislation that conforms Virginia's tax laws to the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and lets the Virginia ...

CNN's Jim Acosta Visits UVA to Discuss Freedom of the Press and Politics - NBC 29 News
2/7/2019 3:00:00 AM
CNN's Jim Acosta Visits UVA to Discuss Freedom of the Press and Politics NBC 29 News The future of politics and the press was under examination at the University of Virginia Thursday evening.

Virginia Med School Apologizes for Racist Yearbook Photo - NBC 29 News
2/5/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia Med School Apologizes for Racist Yearbook Photo NBC 29 News RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The president of a medical school in Virginia has apologized for the pain inflicted on African Americans by a racist photo that appeared ...

'This won't end with me': Frederick County siblings conserve Bear Garden for future generations - The Winchester Star
2/2/2019 3:00:00 AM
'This won't end with me': Frederick County siblings conserve Bear Garden for future generations The Winchester Star CROSS JUNCTION — Crystal-clear streams, cold and clean enough to support native fish populations, are rare in Virginia.

UVA Confirms Cases of Norovirus within Student Population - NBC 29 News
1/29/2019 3:00:00 AM
UVA Confirms Cases of Norovirus within Student Population NBC 29 News The University of Virginia has officially confirmed cases of norovirus in the student population.

182 acres in Albemarle donated to Land Trust of Virginia - The Daily Progress
12/18/2018 3:00:00 AM
182 acres in Albemarle donated to Land Trust of Virginia The Daily Progress Nearly 200 acres of forested land in Albemarle County has been donated to the Land Trust of Virginia and will be protected in perpetuity.

Dominion pays for transfer to state of scenic property in Nelson to compensate for pipeline's impact on state land - Richmond.com
10/17/2018 3:00:00 AM
Dominion pays for transfer to state of scenic property in Nelson to compensate for pipeline's impact on state land Richmond.com Virginia would gain a large, scenic property along the Tye River in Nelson County as part of a pending private land transfer to compensate for the planned ...

Conserved land has millions of dollars in impact on Va. shore: Study - Delmarva Daily Times
3/19/2018 3:00:00 AM
Conserved land has millions of dollars in impact on Va. shore: Study Delmarva Daily Times Conserved lands's impact on the Eastern Shore of Virginia is worth millions of dollars, a study found.

Natural gas pipelines clear another hurdle with conversion of Virginia conservation easements - Richmond.com
10/16/2017 3:00:00 AM
Natural gas pipelines clear another hurdle with conversion of Virginia conservation easements Richmond.com Two controversial natural gas pipelines that would carve through some of Virginia's most mountainous terrain cleared another hurdle on their way to construction ...

Conservation Easement Tax Deductions And Valuation Abuse - Forbes
1/14/2016 3:00:00 AM
Conservation Easement Tax Deductions And Valuation Abuse Forbes She told me that she practiced law early in her career in Virginia and dealt a bit with conservation easements. She noticed a lot of problems and hoped that by ...

Conservation Markets News Items

Sunday News: Trump Killed Iran Nuclear Deal Because…Obama; “Climate Change Fuels Wetter Storms — Storms Like Barry”; Manhattan Blackout; “Fallout over offensive Buttigieg article”; Virginia GOP's “grim outlook evidenced by session” - Blue Virginia
7/14/2019 3:09:00 AM
Sunday News: Trump Killed Iran Nuclear Deal Because…Obama; “Climate Change Fuels Wetter Storms — Storms Like Barry”; Manhattan Blackout; “Fallout over offensive Buttigieg article”; Virginia GOP's “grim outlook evidenced by session” Blue Virginia Brexit effect? Europe's populists back away from calls to leave the union (“Brexit was supposed to trigger a domino effect that could spell the beginning of the ...

August workshop planned for forest family land - YourGV.com
7/12/2019 12:00:00 AM
August workshop planned for forest family land YourGV.com There are approximately 16 million acres of forestland in Virginia.

Hungry Mother Festival back for 46th year | News - Southwest Virginia Today
7/11/2019 3:03:00 PM
Hungry Mother Festival back for 46th year | News Southwest Virginia Today The longest running festival in a Virginia State Park and a Crooked Road Affiliate Festival, the Hungry Mother Festival, will be celebrating its 46th year this ...

West Virginia must STEAM ahead in agriculture's shifting landscape - West Virginia Record
7/8/2019 3:00:00 AM
West Virginia must STEAM ahead in agriculture's shifting landscape West Virginia Record CHARLESTON – Progression is defined as “the process of developing or moving gradually towards a more advanced state.” As time barrels forward, each ...

Virginia “Flip-A-District Friday: Volume II” – Democratic House of Delegates Candidates Starla Kiser, Eric Stamps, Mavis Taintor, Gayle Johnson - Blue Virginia
7/5/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia “Flip-A-District Friday: Volume II” – Democratic House of Delegates Candidates Starla Kiser, Eric Stamps, Mavis Taintor, Gayle Johnson Blue Virginia See below for Flip-A-District Friday: Volume II from Del. Rip Sullivan's Project Blue Dominion: Flip-A-District Friday: Volume II ...

Arlington County Struggles with How to Reach Ambitious “Net Zero” Carbon Emissions With Limited Tools to Get There - Blue Virginia
7/2/2019 3:00:00 AM
Arlington County Struggles with How to Reach Ambitious “Net Zero” Carbon Emissions With Limited Tools to Get There Blue Virginia by John F. Seymour. On June 26, the Arlington County Board held a public work session to review a staff draft of the Community Energy Plan (CEP) Update ...

Board OKs permit for Star Tannery retreat | Nvdaily | nvdaily.com - Northern Virginia Daily
6/26/2019 3:00:00 AM
Board OKs permit for Star Tannery retreat | Nvdaily | nvdaily.com Northern Virginia Daily WOODSTOCK - Shenandoah County leaders gave a proposed nature retreat a green light Tuesday. The Board of Supervisors voted 6-0 at their meeting to ...

Through STEM Education and Botany, APP Fellows Look to Boost Appalachia's Future - UVA Today
6/25/2019 3:00:00 AM
Through STEM Education and Botany, APP Fellows Look to Boost Appalachia's Future UVA Today Faculty at the University of Virginia and UVA's College at Wise are helping one another make a difference in the lives of Southwest Virginians. In a time of ...

Last Word on Hidden Figures, June 19 - Virginia Gazette
6/19/2019 3:00:00 AM
Last Word on Hidden Figures, June 19 Virginia Gazette The BBC announced: "The street outside NASA's headquarters has been named 'Hidden Figures Way,' in honour of three African American women whose work ...

Trump Administration Replaces Obama-Era Climate Change Rule On Power Plants - West Virginia Public Broadcasting
6/19/2019 3:00:00 AM
Trump Administration Replaces Obama-Era Climate Change Rule On Power Plants West Virginia Public Broadcasting The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday released its long-awaited final replacement for the Obama administration's signature climate change.

Virginia State Police Investigating Fatal Crash in Rockingham County - NBC 29 News
6/16/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia State Police Investigating Fatal Crash in Rockingham County NBC 29 News Virginia State Police are investigating a single-vehicle crash in Rockingham County. The crash occurred June 16, 2019, at 6:55 a.m. on Route 259.

Q&A: Climate leader works to shape 'environmental awakening' in Virginia - Energy News Network
5/29/2019 3:00:00 AM
Q&A: Climate leader works to shape 'environmental awakening' in Virginia Energy News Network We want environmental justice to become part of every breath we're taking as a movement,” the Virginia Interfaith Power & Light director says.

Compass Datacenters starts construction on first Northern Virginia facility - DatacenterDynamics
5/16/2019 3:00:00 AM
Compass Datacenters starts construction on first Northern Virginia facility DatacenterDynamics The 75MW campus will be brought online incrementally.

Coalition of unlikely allies calls on state to break up utilities, deregulate energy - Washington Post
5/7/2019 3:00:00 AM
Coalition of unlikely allies calls on state to break up utilities, deregulate energy Washington Post Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia attorney general, has joined left-leaning groups in the effort to counter the influence of Dominion Energy.

Northam retains GOP language in budget to keep Va. out of carbon-reduction plan - Washington Post
5/2/2019 3:00:00 AM
Northam retains GOP language in budget to keep Va. out of carbon-reduction plan Washington Post RICHMOND — Gov. Ralph Northam (D) angered environmental groups Thursday by signing off on a state budget that includes language hampering Virginia's ...

State aims to identify top 1% of land worth protecting - Fauquier Times
5/2/2019 3:00:00 AM
State aims to identify top 1% of land worth protecting Fauquier Times ConserveVirginia, a recent effort to prioritize Virginia land for conservation, may be too restrictive, according to Chris Miller, president of the Warrenton-based ...

Virginia Living Museum to open ‘SHARK ZONE’ May 11 - WTKR News 3
5/1/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia Living Museum to open ‘SHARK ZONE’ May 11 WTKR News 3 Visitors will enter the exhibit gallery through a massive shark jaw tunnel to experience a new exhibit created by the Virginia Living Museum.

First Bank & Trust Company Appoints Key Leadership In Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee Markets - PRNewswire
4/23/2019 3:00:00 AM
First Bank & Trust Company Appoints Key Leadership In Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee Markets PRNewswire ABINGDON, Va., April 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- First Bank & Trust Company and its parent holding company, First Bancorp, Inc., today announced key ...

Virginia takes next step to reduce carbon emissions, join RGGI - Daily Press
4/22/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia takes next step to reduce carbon emissions, join RGGI Daily Press Virginia is now the first southern state to move to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and a step closer to joining a regional partnership to curb ...

One acre at a time: Conservation company plans reforestation project at Great Meadow - Fauquier Times
4/22/2019 3:00:00 AM
One acre at a time: Conservation company plans reforestation project at Great Meadow Fauquier Times A multi-national company's $300 million investment in the environment is likely to pay more than a few dividends in Virginia over the coming years, including the ...

Virginia regulators vote to limit carbon emissions but face GOP roadblock - Washington Post
4/19/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia regulators vote to limit carbon emissions but face GOP roadblock Washington Post RICHMOND — Virginia regulators have voted to join a regional carbon cap-and-trade program, becoming the first Southern state to do so. The effort could lead ...

Governor Northam Announces Launch of ConserveVirginia - NBC 29 News
4/9/2019 3:00:00 AM
Governor Northam Announces Launch of ConserveVirginia NBC 29 News Gov. Northam has officially launched ConserveVirginia, a data-driven, land conservation strategy that identifies high value lands and conservation sites across ...

Virginia First Lady Announces Farm-to-School Goal - NBC 29 News
4/8/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia First Lady Announces Farm-to-School Goal NBC 29 News Virginia First Lady Pamela Northam is calling on the state's school nutrition programs to increase annual local food purchases to at least $22 million by 2022.

Rapidly Evolving Industry Attracts Virginia Farmers to Hemp Summit - Lancaster Farming
3/24/2019 3:00:00 AM
Rapidly Evolving Industry Attracts Virginia Farmers to Hemp Summit Lancaster Farming The second Industrial Hemp Summit took place Feb. 25 and 26, on the heels of the 2018 Farm Bill's passage in December. That legislation lifted restrictions on ...

Conservation officer details probe into illegal hunting tactics - Northern Virginia Daily
3/1/2019 3:00:00 AM
Conservation officer details probe into illegal hunting tactics Northern Virginia Daily WOODSTOCK – A group of hunters learned recently that cheating under the game warden's eye in Shenandoah County doesn't pay.

Virginia Farmer To Lead USDA's Conservation Division - AgWeb
1/24/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia Farmer To Lead USDA's Conservation Division AgWeb This article was written by Nate Birt and Portia Stewart on behalf of Trust in Food, a division of Farm Journal that helps farmers, ranchers and growers increase ...

Virginia's first onshore wind farm project is still 'very much alive' - Energy News Network
1/22/2019 3:00:00 AM
Virginia's first onshore wind farm project is still 'very much alive' Energy News Network Rocky Forge Wind wants to be operating in 2020, but first it needs to secure a partner to buy the generation.

Leonhardt backs hemp market in West Virginia - WV MetroNews - West Virginia MetroNews
1/1/2019 3:00:00 AM
Leonhardt backs hemp market in West Virginia - WV MetroNews West Virginia MetroNews CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Kent Leonhardt is looking forward to the possible growth of the industrial hemp market in ...

'RGGI works': Virginia advocate on what state stands to gain from carbon cap - Energy News Network
12/17/2018 3:00:00 AM
'RGGI works': Virginia advocate on what state stands to gain from carbon cap Energy News Network The initiative is expected to create new revenue for renewable energy and climate change resilience projects.

VOF Announces $3.6 Million in Grants for Forest Conservation in Southwest Virginia - Chatham Star-Tribune
12/7/2018 3:00:00 AM
VOF Announces $3.6 Million in Grants for Forest Conservation in Southwest Virginia Chatham Star-Tribune The Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) today announced $3629710 in grants to support seven on-the-ground projects that protect and restore forests in Giles, ...

Conservation Tax Credits News Items

Natural Bridge sold, on path to become state park - Roanoke Times
2/6/2014 3:00:00 AM
Natural Bridge sold, on path to become state park Roanoke Times The Natural Bridge will become a state park under a deal reached between its former and current owners and several Virginia agencies.