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Downstream’s Founder George Ohrstrom Receives 2021 Heritage Hero Award

December 17, 2021
Your leadership in Clarke County has been unmatched and your contributions to the Clarke County Easement Authority over the last 18 years, including as Chair, Vice-Chair, and Treasurer, have resulted in 8,600 acres being placed under easement.

Website Re-Design for CRLC

May 20, 2021
The Downstream Project was selected from a raft of contenders to re-design the Website for the Capital Region Land Conservancy (CRLC), headquartered in and serving the greater Richmond, VA area. CRLC is the first group from this region of the Chesapeake Bay watershed to join the growing Downstream Network of water and land conservancies. The

Downstream Web Hosting: Ascending to the Google Cloud

March 9, 2021
This month the Downstream Project will be migrating our Partner Websites to the Google Cloud Platform.

Groups Meet For Blue Ridge Conservation Summit

June 23, 2019
Nearly 30 area conservation groups and land trusts met June 20 at Shenandoah University’s Cool Spring Campus for a summit of the Blue Ridge Conservation Alliance. They gathered to explore more cooperation and collaboration to protect what is considered one of the most threatened mountain landscapes in the Eastern Seaboard, the Blue Ridge and surrounding

Building Your Own Stream Monitoring Remote Sensor

April 20, 2018
Virginia Working Landscapes and The Downstream Project hosted a do-it-yourself environmental sensor workshop funded by the U.S. EPA, April 4–5 along the Shenandoah River in Clarke County, Va. Participants learned to build and use the open-source, Arduino-based real-time environmental monitoring systems, which offer individuals, communities, and organizations a low-cost alternative for monitoring water quality, quantity,

Bait and Switch in the General Assembly

February 26, 2018
by George Ohrstrom II As a member of Virginia’s conservation community following the actions of the General Assembly, I was both excited and fearful to see the recently released proposed budget numbers. I knew that both the House and Senate versions would be different, but I did not expect to read what I did. We
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