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Visit our new Partner Coordination Tool

Access a wealth of info to help understand & plan out work in our watershed

Partner Coordination Tool

Support available for landowners

Partner-led programs can provide up to 100% of costs and other support for restoration efforts on your land

Funding & Technical Support Program Tool

More Trees, Clean Water

Let’s restore and protect streamside forests together.

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Which tree should I plant?

A guide for selecting riparian trees and shrubs in Virginia

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Lodge Creek

With partner funding help, a backyard creek now has better flood and erosion control and is a wildlife habitat.

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Invest in Trees for Tomorrow

Help grow partnerships to create healthy streamside ecosystems for clean water in the James River.

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Our Vision:

Growing partnerships to create healthy streamside ecosystems for clean water in the James River today and tomorrow.

James River Watershed, Virginia

2024 Consortium Annual Report

There are so many things to celebrate from our collective work July 2023 to June 2024. This year we reached milestones of installing over 900 acres of riparian forest buffer through the James River Buffer Program since its launch in 2019, and having over 500 Consortium members!

Read more highlights in the Annual Report »

512 Consortium members
185 event attendees
41 CBLP-Buffers certificates awarded
250 acres of riparian forest buffer installed through JRBP

 

Why Riparian Buffers Matter

Riparian buffers, or corridors of vegetation along creeks and rivers, provide a variety of benefits to water quality and our communities.

Partners in Restoration

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Visit our About section to learn more about who we are, what we do and how our partners move ideas into action together. Learn more »

Landowners

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Visit our Landowner section to learn about buffers and cost assistance programs that can help you build and maintain your streamside buffers. Learn more »

Buffer News & Updates

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See available technical assistance & funding programs!

Programs such as the James River Buffer Program (JRBP) works to provide the James River watershed with resilient streamside forests that improve water quality and that landowners visions are understood. For qualifying landowners, the program provides:

  • design and management plan
  • preparation of site as needed
  • materials
  • ​installation

The JRBP is a partnership between The James River Association, the Virginia Department of Forestry, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and is one of the many technical assistance and funding programs available to landowners.

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