The Senegalese forest engineer Baba Dioum once said, “In the end, we will only conserve what we love; we will only love what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” In that spirit, the James River Basin Partnership (JRBP) has started a new ecotourism program to…
Author: Todd Wilkinson, James River Basin Partnership, for SGFNN
I’m sure many of you have heard the saying, “Think Globally, Act Locally,” especially when applied to conservation efforts. We tend to see issues on a large scale. We feel that we need large solutions to large problems, such as water pollution, single-use plastics, etc. This can make the task at hand…
Many people consider Aldo Leopold’s Sand County Almanac to be one of the most venerated books in in the modern ecological movement, along with Thoreau’s Walden and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. First published in 1949, a year after Leopold’s death, it contains a series of essays which express his idea…
Do you know your watershed address? Everyone has a watershed address, because we all live in a watershed. What exactly is a watershed anyway? At our offices in downtown Springfield, our watershed address looks like this: Jordan Creek to Wilson’s Creek to James River to Table Rock Lake to White…