by Anne Marie Roberts | Feb 20, 2023 | James River Buffers, News |
Think Little green houses with tiny trees growing inside! These shelters are protecting newly planted baby saplings and will give them a chance to start their journey of growth without the pressure of deer eating them from the top and voles eating them from the...
by Anne Marie Roberts | Jan 26, 2022 | James River Buffers, News, Watershed Restoration |
What a fall planting season! Or fall and winter season, rather. JRA planted 75 acres of riparian buffers or 22,643 native hardwood seedlings in Amherst, Albemarle, Cumberland, and Nelson Countries. It was a dry fall season, so the snowfall was a welcome sight after...
by Anne Marie Roberts | May 18, 2021 | James River Buffers, News |
On May 13th Conservation Partners, James River Association, Peter Francisco Soil & Water Conservation District and the Virginia Cooperative Extension teamed up for a farm field day, hosted by a Clean Water Farm Award winner, in Cumberland County. Masked up...
by Anne Marie Roberts | Oct 15, 2020 | James River Buffers, News |
Through the James River Buffer Program Dave and Anne Brown worked with Anne Marie Roberts of the James River Association on a tree buffer plan that worked for them. They wanted to expand some existing mature buffers on their property to prevent stream bank erosion,...
by Anne Marie Roberts | Jul 8, 2020 | James River Buffers, News |
This humid, rainy weather reminds me of the jungle and what plant is the quintessential jungle plant? Vines! Walking along streams and through the woods lately it appears that the only vines I see are the invasive species. Wisteria, English ivy, oriental bittersweet,...
