Grants fund WRP flood recovery projects
May 10, 2012
The White River Partnership (WRP) has received five grants in 2012 to implement flood recovery projects that improve water quality, fish & wildlife habitat, and public access as well as engage people and local communities in watershed stewardship activities.
National Forest Foundation (NFF)
The National Forest Foundation provides matching funds for on-the-ground restoration and citizen-based monitoring projects benefitting America’s National Forests. The WRP received NFF funding to restore a 2.7-acre riparian buffer at the Bagley Farm in Granville; to replace the Nason Brook culvert at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rochester; to conduct non-native invasive plant control and survey projects on high-priority, Green Mountain National Forest and adjoining privately-owned sites; and to engage community volunteers in hands-on project implementation and monitoring activities.
Vermont Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP)
Vermont’s Ecosystem Restoration Program takes action to accelerate the reduction of sediment and nutrient pollution from uncontrolled runoff into our streams, rivers, ponds, wetlands, and lakes. The WRP received ERP funds to improve water quality and flood resiliency through river corridor assessment, mapping, and planning in the First Branch sub-watershed.
Vermont Watershed Grant (VWG)
Vermont Watershed Grant funds are granted to support on-the-ground projects that protect or restore water quality and shorelines, enhance recreational use, and educate people about watershed resources. The WRP received VWG funds to implement flood recovery projects with volunteers, including planting 3,000 native trees and shrubs along the river and removing man-made trash along 50 miles of the White River.
WaterWheel Foundation
The WaterWheel Foundation was created by Phish in 1997 to oversee the band’s various charitable activities. The WRP received WaterWheel funding to implement on-the-ground projects that restore flood-damaged riverbanks, property, and infrastructure.
Wellborn Ecology Fund (WEF)
The Wellborn Ecology Fund serves to increase knowledge about the environment, ecology, and natural history of the Upper Valley through support of experientially-oriented programs that focus on the region’s people, schools, institutions, and communities. The WRP received WEF funds to work with Verdana Ventures education consultants and 5 watershed schools to use the White River as an outdoor classroom with a focus on monitoring impacts from Tropical Storm Irene flooding.
We want to thank NFF, ERP, VWG, WaterWheel, and WEF for their generous support of our 2012 flood recovery projects!
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Posted: May 10, 2012 by wrp_admin
Grants fund WRP flood recovery projects
Grants fund WRP flood recovery projects
May 10, 2012
The White River Partnership (WRP) has received five grants in 2012 to implement flood recovery projects that improve water quality, fish & wildlife habitat, and public access as well as engage people and local communities in watershed stewardship activities.
National Forest Foundation (NFF)
The National Forest Foundation provides matching funds for on-the-ground restoration and citizen-based monitoring projects benefitting America’s National Forests. The WRP received NFF funding to restore a 2.7-acre riparian buffer at the Bagley Farm in Granville; to replace the Nason Brook culvert at Woodlawn Cemetery in Rochester; to conduct non-native invasive plant control and survey projects on high-priority, Green Mountain National Forest and adjoining privately-owned sites; and to engage community volunteers in hands-on project implementation and monitoring activities.
Vermont Ecosystem Restoration Program (ERP)
Vermont’s Ecosystem Restoration Program takes action to accelerate the reduction of sediment and nutrient pollution from uncontrolled runoff into our streams, rivers, ponds, wetlands, and lakes. The WRP received ERP funds to improve water quality and flood resiliency through river corridor assessment, mapping, and planning in the First Branch sub-watershed.
Vermont Watershed Grant (VWG)
Vermont Watershed Grant funds are granted to support on-the-ground projects that protect or restore water quality and shorelines, enhance recreational use, and educate people about watershed resources. The WRP received VWG funds to implement flood recovery projects with volunteers, including planting 3,000 native trees and shrubs along the river and removing man-made trash along 50 miles of the White River.
WaterWheel Foundation
The WaterWheel Foundation was created by Phish in 1997 to oversee the band’s various charitable activities. The WRP received WaterWheel funding to implement on-the-ground projects that restore flood-damaged riverbanks, property, and infrastructure.
Wellborn Ecology Fund (WEF)
The Wellborn Ecology Fund serves to increase knowledge about the environment, ecology, and natural history of the Upper Valley through support of experientially-oriented programs that focus on the region’s people, schools, institutions, and communities. The WRP received WEF funds to work with Verdana Ventures education consultants and 5 watershed schools to use the White River as an outdoor classroom with a focus on monitoring impacts from Tropical Storm Irene flooding.
We want to thank NFF, ERP, VWG, WaterWheel, and WEF for their generous support of our 2012 flood recovery projects!
Posted: April 3, 2012 by wrp_admin
WRP donates award winning desk to So Ro School
WRP donates award winning desk to So Ro School
April 03, 2012
The White River Partnership (WRP) recently visited the temporary classrooms at the South Royalton school to deliver a beautiful handmade desk to art teacher Gaylynn Huyghebaert.
The highly unusual donation resulted from a fundraiser raffle conducted by the WRP, made possible by the generosity of Art Stacy of Sharon who made and donated the oak desk, and also by an unidentified individual who won the
desk in the raffle but donated it to the school.
Added to Stacy’s original design upon delivery was a small plaque that read, “Handmade by Art Stacy of Sharon, Vt. and donated to the South Royalton School by the White River Partnership, February 25, 2012.”
The desk was designed and handmade by Stacy, who is a WRP member. Stacy entered the desk in the 2008 Vermont Fine Furniture Competition, where it won an award in the very competitive Custom Furniture division.
Read the full story, published in the Herald of Randolph: WRP_donates_desk_to_So_Ro_School.
Posted: March 9, 2012 by wrp_admin
New Projects
New Projects
March 09, 2012
The WRP is involved in a project called the Northern Forest Watershed Service Project, which is raising awareness about and private donations for on-the-ground conservation projects that protect water quality. The Project has recently launched two new websites:
Clear Water Carbon Fund
Clear Water Carbon Fund brings you carbon reduction options in the form of local reforestation and water restoration projects. CWCF projects allow you to reduce the impact of your activities in a way that benefits your local community and economy, giving you the ability to buy local and reduce your carbon footprint.
In Vermont, the Clear Water Carbon Fund is planting trees in the White River Watershed. The White River watershed encompasses 710 square miles, including Addison, Orange, Rutland, Washington and Windsor Counties and 50,000 acres of the Green Mountain National Forest.
The WRP oversees tree planting and provides the critical grassroots support and connection to local landowners necessary for identifying landowners who are willing to commit to have trees planted and maintained on their land along streams and rivers.
Clean Water Future
The Northern Forest Watershed Services Project, in cooperation with the White River Partnership, Ammonoosuc Conservation Trust, and Orange County Headwaters Project, has launched this Internet-based marketplace where individuals, communities, and businesses can invest in projects that protect or enhance natural services provided by private forest and farmland in the Upper Connecticut River Watershed. This innovative marketplace connects landowners with people who appreciate and benefit from the services the land offers – providing new opportunities for stewardship and conservation.
Clean Water Future is an experimental project created as part of the Northern Forest Ecosystems Trust Initiative, an effort to create innovative and replicable market-based models providing incentives to private forest landowners to restore, enhance, and protect aquatic resources in critical watersheds in the Connecticut River Valley of New Hampshire and Vermont and the Crooked River Watershed in Maine. The Initiative is funded through a Conservation Innovations Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resource Conservation Service.