This document outlines 7 potential conservation projects in the South River/South Fork Shenandoah River watershed region and estimates their costs. The projects include improving water quality and fish habitat through best management practices from $10 million, restoring freshwater mussels for $4 million, restoring habitat for migratory songbirds for $2.5 million, protecting and enhancing the Cowbane Wet Prairie preserve for $1.3 million, improving recreational fishing access by acquiring properties along the rivers for $18.2 million, restoring the Front Royal Fish Hatchery with DuPont funds, and creating new recreational fishing access points for $2.5 million.
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The projects proposed for restoring the South River and their costs.
This document outlines 7 potential conservation projects in the South River/South Fork Shenandoah River watershed region and estimates their costs. The projects include improving water quality and fish habitat through best management practices from $10 million, restoring freshwater mussels for $4 million, restoring habitat for migratory songbirds for $2.5 million, protecting and enhancing the Cowbane Wet Prairie preserve for $1.3 million, improving recreational fishing access by acquiring properties along the rivers for $18.2 million, restoring the Front Royal Fish Hatchery with DuPont funds, and creating new recreational fishing access points for $2.5 million.
This document outlines 7 potential conservation projects in the South River/South Fork Shenandoah River watershed region and estimates their costs. The projects include improving water quality and fish habitat through best management practices from $10 million, restoring freshwater mussels for $4 million, restoring habitat for migratory songbirds for $2.5 million, protecting and enhancing the Cowbane Wet Prairie preserve for $1.3 million, improving recreational fishing access by acquiring properties along the rivers for $18.2 million, restoring the Front Royal Fish Hatchery with DuPont funds, and creating new recreational fishing access points for $2.5 million.
ed Cost Headwaters of South River, Projects to improve water quality and tributaries to South River or fish habitat Agricultural and urban South Fork $10 best management practices in the Shenandoah River, sites million South River/South Fork within the city of Shenandoah River watershed Waynesboro Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Center at Virginia Tech $4 Freshwater mussel restoration - University; Virginia Fisheries million Propagation program and Aquatic Wildlife Center at Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery $2.5 Neotropical migratory songbird full life Various locations million cycle restoration Habitat restoration
Land protection, property acquisition,
Property adjacent and recreational and wildlife $1.3 to Cowbane Wet Prairie enhancements - Cowbane Wet Prairie million State Natural Area State Natural Area Preserve Willets Preserve Tract addition and forest restoration Locations upstream or Recreational fishing improvement within the City of projects Additional properties, Waynesboro, adjacent to $18.2 prioritizing those adjacent to South the South River or million River or South Fork Shenandoah River, tributaries to the South creating contiguous protected land River or South Fork corridors Shenandoah River Recreational fishing improvement DuPont projects Restoration of the Virginia fund Front Royal Department of Game and Inland directly Fisheries Front Royal Fish Hatchery Locations on South River, South Fork Shenandoah Recreational fishing improvement $2.5 River, North Fork projects Recreational fishing million Shenandoah River, or access creation/improvement Shenandoah River, or tributaries