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Citizens express concerns about VOF mineral policies at forum

Video from the Virginia Outdoors Foundation's March 13, 2014 forum about conservati

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Message From the ECCA regarding Hydraulic Fracturing

This statement is intended to help educate our members on the hydraulic fracturing process and to summarize the questions and concerns our members have raised. For an excellent article on this subject which has been a source for our discussion of the fracking process, see www.geosociety.org/criticalissues/hydraulicfracturing.

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VMRC Decision - "No Mooring" Pier at Fones Cliffs

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 09:30
Thank you to all who came to the hearing 3/25/14.
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Basics of Rural Historic Districts

Following are Guidelines for Evaluating and Documenting Rural Historic Districts from the U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service

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Virginia General Assembly - Your Action Is Needed Now

January 16, 2013

To All Concerned Middle Peninsula / Northern Neck Land Preservationists,

We are writing to you with a 2013 Legislative Alert, on both the state and federal levels, that could affect the future of the State Land Presentation Tax Credit Program and the Federal Tax Deduction associated with the gifting of Conservation Easements.

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20 Questions: Conservation and the Fiscal Cliff Deal

HELPFUL Answers from the Land Trust Alliance

 
Q.  Was the enhanced conservation easement tax incentive extended?
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APVA Haunted History

Saturday, October 27, 2012 - 18:30

Location: Patrick Henry's Scotch TownOnce a year the eerie tales and mysterious legends that have come to rest on the grounds of Patrick Henry's Scotchtown come to light. Visit if you dare

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Irish Influences on Furniture from the Rappahannock River Basin

By Ronald L. Hurst

Most furniture produced in eighteenth-century Virginia was heavily influenced by English craft traditions, but other cultures also impacted furniture design in discrete sections of the colony. One of them was the lower Rappahannock River basin. There, a distinctive body of cabinet wares made from the 1750s to the 1770s exhibits strong evidence of Irish influence.

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Should Essex County Move Forward with Historical Documentation?

By Kimberly Abe

Essex County is undoubtedly one of the Nation’s most historically significant locales, yet like most of Virginia’s Northern and Middle Neck counties, only a small percentage of the county’s historic buildings and landscapes are actually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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VOF Reports - 2012

By Estie Thomas

Estie Thomas reports from Virginia Outdoor Foundation

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