As an FOR educator, one of my main goals is helping students feel confident in the outdoors and empowered to make a positive difference. This past year, we had a day that exemplifies that mission. We went out to the Rapidan River with 25 ecology students from...
Virginians rely on the Commonwealth’s waterways in a variety of ways, including clean drinking water, seafood production (Virginia is the largest seafood producer on the East Coast and the third largest in the United States), and recreational tourism (the James River...
Virginia is facing a new era of industrial gas development. In addition to the possibility of drilling for shale gas in new areas of the state, drillers now seek to use high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking) with horizontal drilling, a combination not...
Introduction Agriculture is Virginia’s largest industry, covering more land area than any other industry in the Commonwealth — approximately 46,000 farms cover 8.2 million acres (32%) of Virginia. Not surprisingly, agriculture is also the largest source of nutrient...
When I started my internship with Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR), I hoped to have the opportunity to learn and understand more about the different species of turtles in the Rappahannock River. So I worked with Jake Rehm, another FOR intern and a sophomore at James...
