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Photos courtesy Richard Lykes. To see more, visit our Photo Gallery
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RLEP sponsors or co-sponsors a wide range of environmental, educational, and historic preservation activities within the county. Please join with us—your participation is welcomed! |
Alternative Energy Project:
2008
Piedmont Alternative Energy Expo
The RLEP-sponsored 2008 Piedmont Alternative Energy Expo, featuring 44 exhibitors, was held May 17, 2008 at Fauquier County Fairgrounds in Warrenton, Virginia.  Read about the Expo one exhibitor calls "the best in the Mid-Atlantic" and visit the 2008 Expo Home Page.
RLEP's Biodiversity Task Force
A Wild Day in Sperryville. Four hundred people did something wild at the Sperryville Schoolhouse on Saturday, February 9, 2008 – they attended the second annual Wildlife Habitat Open House, put on by the Biodiversity Task Force of RLEP, in partnership with the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) and the Rappahannock Friends and Lovers of Our Watershed (RappFLOW).
Visit the BTF home page for BTF activities and informative articles on biodiversity in Rappahannock County.
If you would like more information on the task force or would like to join us, please contact task force coordinator Pam Owen at 540-675-9989 or biodiversity@rlep.org. No matter what your interest in native species, we'd like your input.
Virginia vernacular architecture
Rappahannock County is a land of treasures: wooded mountains, sparkling streams, lovely old farmhouses, winding country roads, and historic villages. RLEP, an organization dedicated to preserving these treasures for future generations, has held a series of programs under the theme, "Treasures of Rappahannock County," designed to build public awareness and appreciation of the treasures around us. [Read more]
Conservation funds
The Krebser Fund for Rappahannock County Conservation. In Rappahannock
County, a history of protective zoning, coupled with long-term and successful efforts to encourage conservation
easements, has yielded positive results. However, there is much left
to be done to protect Rappahannock, and the Krebser Fund provides another tool.
Your help is needed. [Read about
the Fund]
The Young Fund for Agricultural Education. A conservation fund for the purpose of keeping Rappahannock green has been established by the Young family to honor the memory of Dr. Bill Young (1920-2004). The fund will assist the Rappahannock County High School in establishing an agriculture course starting in September 2005. All contributions will be matched by the Young family for the cost of the first year start-up. [Read more]
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RappFLOW programs
RappFLOW, partnering with RLEP, has been awarded a grant by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
RappFLOW Upper Thornton River Project. RappFLOW Upper Thornton Project: Four subwatersheds of the Rush River will be the main focus of study for RappFLOW in Spring 2006. These subwatersheds include the Upper Rush, Middle Rush, Big Branch, and Lower Rush. [Continued]
RappFLOW's sustainable forestry workshop draws overflow crowd. A standing-room-only crowd of over 200 people gathered in the restored mule-team barn at Cliff Miller’s Mt. Vernon Farm in Sperryville to participate in the RappFLOW (Rappahannock Friends and Lovers of Our Waterways) workshop on sustainable forestry in Rappahannock County. [Read more]
Go With the FLOW: Citizens come together to protect watershed. A small group of local citizens, which has since evolved into RappFLOW (Rappahannock Friends and Lovers of Our Watershed) first met in summer 2002 to discuss their concerns about potential threats to our watershed. [Read more]
Visit RappFLOW at www.rappflow.org.
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The Confederate Monument on the Courthouse grounds.
Photo courtesy Richard Lykes. |
Washington Courthouse grounds project
Washington Courthouse grounds project,
Spring 2006. With the garden areas along the stone fence on Porter Street planted in September 2005 and the Civil War Monument surveyed in October, the beautification project of the area in front of the County office buildings on Gay street, begun in March 2004, is about to enter into Phase 2. [Read more]
Civil War monument threatened by deterioration. The Civil War monument, erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy on the grounds of the Rappahannock County courthouse in Washington, is deteriorating so badly that in a few years it may be beyond repair, an expert on monument restoration has advised RLEP officials. [Read more]
Progress continues at Washington Courthouse grounds project, Spring 2005. The Washington courthouse grounds project is moving right along. The initial planting of native trees and shrubs in the garden area at the Porter Street end was completed in April. These complement the Norway spruce donated by John and Judy Tole to kick off the project. The spruce was planted by Steve Schadler.
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