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Hampton University launching course on how to build sustainable shorelines
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (407+ words) Hampton University is partnering with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to launch what officials say is one of the nation’s first college courses dedicated to living shorelines. Students will learn how to design, permit and build a living shoreline, which uses…...
Virginia launches website to make wetland credits more transparent
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (672+ words) For decades in Virginia, public and private developers who encroach on protected wetlands and streams have been required to offset the impacts by paying to restore similar ecosystems nearby. The Virginia Department of Transportation, for example, had to buy many…...
‘Save the Wrack’: Some Sandbridge residents worry beach grooming is driving away shorebirds
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (848+ words) Eve Butts has lived in Sandbridge for more than three decades, and visited often before that. Over the years, one of her favorite beachgoing pastimes became watching the shorebirds that would flock to the area and poke around the shoreline,…...
How officials go on ‘Osprey Watch’ to track Hampton Roads’ birds of prey
5+ mon, 2+ day ago (689+ words) On a windy afternoon earlier this week, Reese Lukei and Keriann Spiewak pushed off from a boat ramp along a branch of the Lynnhaven River. Spiewak, senior trainer of animal ambassadors at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, and Lukei,…...
Annual agriculture award will honor Virginia Beach for farmland preservation efforts
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (330+ words) For decades, farmers in Virginia Beach have recognized the people and businesses who power their industry. The Excellence in Agriculture Award, selected each year by a committee of past winners, isn’t going to a person but the city this time....
Searching for salamanders at the Virginia Living Museum
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (680+ words) Walking around the Virginia Living Museum, it’s easy to miss rows of ceramic tiles scattered between a few of the exhibits. But to a salamander, the tiles are a habitat haven. “They’re really dependent on a moist environment,” said Kortney…...
From salamanders to sea turtles: Virginia’s new Wildlife Action Plan details threats to nearly 2,000 species
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (737+ words) Virginia is made up of a wide range of forests, rivers, grasslands and beaches — all home to a vast array of wildlife, seen and unseen. For the state’s new Wildlife Action Plan, officials looked into all of it. “Everything from…...
How humans are bringing an endangered bird back from the brink of extinction
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (436+ words) 150 years before the American Revolution, settlers arriving on our shores found an amazing site— 90 million acres of pine forest, stretching from southeastern Virginia to Florida and Texas. Those trees would become an engine for the British navy, supplying pitch to…...
The Virginia Zoo at 125: No longer a mere park 'with a few animals."
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (1249+ words) Long gone are the days when two chimpanzees smoked cigarettes in a cramped cage at the entrance to the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. Today, the zoo, celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, is centered on animal well-being and enrichment; animals roam…...
Virginia Senate shoots down bill to add terrapin protections to recreational crab pots
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (639+ words) This story was reported and written by our media partner the Virginia Mercury. A bill that would have required recreational crabbers to add terrapin by-catch devices onto their pots to prevent accidental drownings of the reptiles failed to pass out…...