Environment
  • assisted Virginia Forest Watch, with action alerts and other publicity in their successful effort where legislation was passed making Best Management Practices mandatory on logging jobs in Virginia
  • provided assistance to RAIL Solution, a group of citizens in western Virginia counties connected by a proposed expansion to Interstate 81, calling for Virginia to increase use of rail for freight moving along the east coast
  • helped the Montebello Clean Mountain Coalition (MCMC) in their victory to get the Central Virginia Electric Power Cooperative to refrain from spraying pesticides under power lines on private property if the landowner requests it and to maintain the vegetation manually
  • supported groups that succeeded in getting 10,000 acres in Nelson County designated as federal wilderness areas
  • helped Virginia Forest Watch in getting the legislature to establish a commission to study the impact of chip mills on the economy and environment
  • worked with eight environmental groups in Virginia to establish a statewide environmental e-mail action alert system
  • provided consultations and workshops for the West Virginia Timber Coalition, Kingsport Citizens for a Cleaner Environment and Coalition for Jobs and the Environment, among others
  • did Dismantling Racism workshop for Save Our Cumberland Mountains (TN), a three-day workshop for national staff and leaders of the Sierra Club and weekend workshops for the Appalachian Community Fund
  • helped with campaign planning sessions for the Blue Ridge Coalition which involves a five-county area: Wythe, Floyd, Carroll, Patrick and Henry counties – a coalition that fought two natural gas pipelines proposed to cut through these counties
  • led a workshop on Engaging New Constituencies and New Voices at the 2004 National River Rally

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