UPDATES AND EVENTS

 

November 9, 2008.  Autumn Board of Director's meeting in Washington DC.  We did not have a fundraising event following the meeting, as we have in recent years, due to the economic downturn in the country.  We did, however, have a small party celebrating the election at the home of Paul Armington. 

Environmental Forums Autumn 2008.  The current eForum is Oh Deer! 2008, which will run from October 20 to November 26, 2008.  It is accessed by clicking on the phone in the High School.  Participating classes seek a consensus approach to deer population management that strikes an acceptable balance between people, deer, and the environment.  *To help students visualize the problems caused by too many deer, we created a short Flash slide show about deer impacts on our forested lands.  Take a look.

 

August 2008.  CI receives Virginia Environmental Endowment grant ($6,500) for eSchool and related hands-on activities in Virginia.

 

August 2008.  Cacapon Institute (CI) receives $48,683 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program.   The project is titled: “Failure is Not an Option: Investigating a Cost-Effective Approach to Reducing Deer Damage in Reforestation Programs.”  Read press release here.  Learn more about project here.

 

July 2008.  Stream Scholars Summer Camp 2008 was a resounding success from the Cacapon to the Potomac to the Chesapeake Bay.  Take a look

 

Read our June fundraising letter.

 

June 2008.  CI's Executive Director Neil delivers talk on deer-exclusion experiment at American Water Resources Association 2008 Riparian Summer Specialty Conference

 

May 2008.  Spring Board of Director's meeting in Slanesville, WV.  Field trip to project sites, including a Natural Stream Restoration and USDA-CREP Riparian Planting at WVU's experimental farm in Wardensville, WV.

 

Environmental Forums Spring 2008.  Students from 10 schools in 3 states participated in the Spring 2008 SCE Forum, and did a tremendous amount of thoughtful work seeking solutions to the Bay watershed's problems.  Their final consensus papers are now posted.  You can see the whole thing in the Environmental Forum Archives.  SCE Forum students from Buffalo Gap High School (Staunton, VA) did an erosion control project at a nearby elementary school.  Students from Jefferson High School did a tree planting project around a constructed wetland.  Other students competed in a bumper sticker contest, which was won by China Jones at Rappahannock High School.

 

February 2008.  Cacapon Institute receives 2-year NOAA-BWET grant ($90,0000) to: 1- Enhance our online Potomac Highlands Watershed School to annually reach 1800 students throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed; 2- Use the power of the web to communicate and share data and involve students in a hands-on living laboratory program with students collaborating on monitoring techniques and field experiences; 3- Form an advisory council for Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE); and 4- Engage small, community-based watershed and conservation groups in MWEE to bring additional flexibility and local financial help to teachers.

 

November 2007.  CI has three papers at VA-WV Water Resources Symposium 2007 in Blacksburg, VA:

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“Inducing Farmer Participation in a Watershed Level Program to Improve Water Quality”, Alan Collins, Peter Maille, and Neil Gillies, Paper presented at the Virginia / West Virginia Water Research Symposium, Blacksburg, VA, November 29, 2007. (PDF, 100 kb)  More project papers available here

bulletThe Effects of Pollution Reduction on a Wild Trout Stream - paper is here (PDF).
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Potomac Headwaters Stream Flow Restoration Project - paper is here (PDF).

 

 

New Fall 2007 - Potomac Headwaters Leaders of Watersheds (PHLOW)

 

August 2007 Stream Scholars 2007 Summer Camp complete.

 

 

 

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W. Neil Gillies, Executive Director
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