protecting and connecting your favorite wild places
Protecting and Connecting your Favorite Wild Places
What We Do
- Advocate for the connectivity and integrity of Virginia’s lands and waters.
- Influence decision makers by mobilizing citizens like you.
- Empower citizens, landowners, and others to address threats to our wild places.
- Convene stakeholder groups to amplify impact.
- Connect people to the outdoors because we protect the places we know and love.
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Last week, Wild Virginia and seven partner organizations filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This petition challenges a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) decision to extend the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) Southgate Project.
Southgate's altered plans are still not fully disclosed, providing a strong reason to reject this FERC approval. In any case though, the project unquestionably threatens the environment and people along its likely path. And this is all in support of an attempt to prop up their dirty, wasteful business model, which ties us to more decades of delay in making the necessary transition to clean energy.
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Last week, Wild Virginia and seven partner organizations filed a petition in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. This petition challenges a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) de...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Maybe if we stand still enough, Monday won’t see us & it will go away ✌️ #mondaymood
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Some food for thought today by environmental activist, Vandana Shiva.
"Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics."
Photo by Lori A Cash, Conservation Photographer
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When you hire somebody in the name of diversity you have failed to get the best candidate.
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