About the Consortium
About Us
Mission: To support a network of partners to raise awareness, build workforce capacity, and increase implementation of riparian forested buffers across the Upper and Middle James watersheds through collaboration.
Vision: Growing partnerships to create healthy streamside ecosystems for clean water in the James River today and tomorrow.
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Collaboration
We can go further together and seek opportunities to support, collaborate with, and learn from diverse partners both within and outside the James River watershed.
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Initiative
We are proactive and take initiative to create solutions that respond to the needs of Consortium partners and our streamside ecosystems for long-term health of the James River and our communities.
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Stewardship
We care for our existing riparian buffers and believe that stewardship is vital to sustained improvements in water quality and successful buffers.
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Holistic
We integrate practices such as livestock exclusion fencing, streambank stabilization, grass and forest buffers, and conservation easements that respond to landowner, landscape, and habitat needs.