The new site allows users to find information quickly and easily, and applies a consistent look and feel to the bureau’s web pages. The redesigned site incorporates several new features to make AR’s website easier to navigate and user-friendly. These enhancements include, but aren’t limited to: a core navigation system, site directory of major links within the site, secondary breadcrumb navigation, and compatibility with mobile devices. The site also adopts certain branding elements (e.g., an OSMRE header and footer that appears at the top/bottom of each page) that establish a common visual “identity” for the bureau’s web presence. View the
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The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the USDA Forest Service – State and Private Forestry (USFS) announced today $678,000 in grants to support forest restoration on old, degraded mined lands at sites in Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. State foresters from those states, or their designated partners, will receive grants through the Appalachian Forest Renewal Initiative, a new partnership between NFWF and the USDA Forest Service. These six grants will provide a 1:1 match in additional funds and in-kind support resulting in an overall $1.35 million investment in forest restoration on priority sites for enhancement
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Cheat Canyon, one of West Virginia’s most iconic landscapes and a magnet for outdoor recreation, will be protected for future generations by a conservation partnership that includes The Nature Conservancy, The Conservation Fund, and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, the groups announced today. The Conservation Fund, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, has acquired 3,800 acres along a seven mile stretch of the Cheat River. The Nature Conservancy will retain 1,300 acres of the property as a new nature preserve, with funding from a bequest from the estate of Charlotte Ryde. Over the coming two years, the remaining
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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, N.C. Division of Parks and Recreation, and the U. S. Forest Service will conduct prescribed burns over the next two days on 3,300 acres in Burke, Haywood, McDowell and Rutherford counties. They will be assisted by personnel from a N.C. Forest Service youth program. The prescribed burns will affect approximately 400 acres on South Mountains State Park, 200 acres on Cold Mountain Game Land, 2,000 acres on Pisgah Game Land, and 700 acres on South Mountains Game Land. These burns will aid in ecosystem restoration of the land, wildlife habitat improvement, and reduction of brush
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Stonewall Resort State Park in Lewis County has received a number of improvements during the past week, thanks to nearly 300 people who attended a global gathering for professional trail builders. Seven countries and 44 U.S. states sent 286 representatives to the Professional Trail Builder Association conference, a six-day, hands-on working and instruction event held at Stonewall Resort March 31-April 5. Saturday, April 5, was a volunteer work and training day that involved planning, building and improving recreation trails. The group constructed several hundred feet of new trails, a boardwalk over a wet area and performed rehabilitation of other areas
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The Maryland General Assembly today passed legislation (SB 336/HB 296) to expand Maryland’s Wildlands system by 50 percent, permanently protecting the wilderness character of 22,000 acres of sensitive State-owned lands. Governor Martin O’Malley formally proposed the legislation at the beginning of the General Assembly session in January. “Maryland’s Wildlands are the last remaining untouched landscapes and waterways of their kind, supporting sensitive ecosystems and many rare and vanishing plants and animals,” said Governor O’Malley, who will sign the legislation into law. “It is our responsibility to preserve these areas today, so there can be no question about how they will
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Part of US National Science Foundation and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation award of $16M in grants to support science-led conservation projects. Earlier this month, the U.S. National Science…
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Click here to view and download the 2023 AMJV Partnership Year in Review!
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The 2023 AMJV Impact Report is now available for downloading and sharing! Starting in 2022, this beautiful report has been designed annually by Liz Brewer (AMJV Outreach Specialist) to…
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