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★ #SaveCinderBedWoods! ★ Yet another trees-to-asphalt conversion project. This one would light up the forest like an auto mall! - Updated July 10, 2022 |
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-------- ★ Speak up now! ★ ----------------- Everything has changed! ------ A recommendation to forgo dredging is official! But is it really final? Is it to be Accotink Marsh Park? - Updated March 6, 2023 |
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Get your brain wet and your hands dirty! Join with others to get the trash out of Accotink Creek. Beat the litterbugs! Read dispatches from the cleanup in progress - Posted March 7, 2022 |
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★ Presidents Day 2022 ★ Thank you to all the neighbors who joined hands to to clean up dumping sites along Americana Drive in Annandale.
- Posted February 22, 2023 |
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Ask your Virginia senators and delegates to vote in defense of Accotink Creek!
- Posted January 23, 2023 |
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A video visit to vernal pools around our watershed, looking and learning.
- Updated February 11, 2023 |
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"Begin with the premise that the automobile must accommodate the earth, rather than vice versa."
- Updated January 7, 2023 |
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Primary election  for Supervisors & General Assembly.
- Updated November 23, 2022 |
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This tributary stream is the focus of a consolidated long term project to restore watershed health. Learn what is proposed and where changes will happen.
- Updated February 7, 2023 |
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Read about the adventures of Friends of Accotink Creek in defense of our watershed in 2022. "GET YOUR BRAIN WET!" - Posted November 14, 2022 |
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Another Elly Doyle award for a deserving FACC member.
- Updated November 18, 2022 |
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Trading green space for Greenbacks! An ancient perennial stream meets its tragic and needless end in Fairfax City. - Updated November 24, 2022 |
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Citizen report of a sanitary sewer break contaminating Long Branch central.
- Updated November 22, 2022 |
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Results are in from our summer fish survey. The tally of species is at least fair, but questions remain.
- Updated November 15, 2022 |
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Ad hoc fixes have stabilized the slope and halted erosion, but a permanent repair still seems far away.
- Updated November 10, 2022 |
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Trying to save Lake Accotink from being smothered by an insidious aquatic invader.
- Updated November 7, 2022 |
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Thanks to all the Friends of Accotink Creek who joined the International Coastal Cleanup along our 12 adopted stretches of Accotink Creek in 2022. Thanks to all their efforts, we together removed 232 bags of trash, and junk ranging from shopping carts to squash racquets.
- Posted Oct 13, 2022 |
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Yellow passionflowers and Purple passionflowers - be "passionate" about the imperiled Accotink Gorge. Our workdays to eliminate invasive wisteria threatening native flora make progress!
- Updated November 1, 2022 |
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The Hatmark Branch tributary has dried up. Can it be entirely natural?
- Posted September 4, 2022 |
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Canterbury Woods Elementary School students "follow the water" to learn about what lives in their neighboring stream, Long Branch central.
- Posted May 9, 2022 |
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Yet more tree loss faces the Fort Belvoir North Area.
- Posted May 6, 2022 |
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★Defend natural resource funding!★
Come to the defense of Fairfax County parks and natural habitats! Contact your county supervisors! - Posted April 7, 2022 |
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And salamanders, too! The cause of this die off of aquatic life remains a mystery.
- Posted March 31, 2022 |
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Another water main break pours sediment into Daniels Run, just one year after a similar incident.
- Posted March 31, 2022 |
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Illegal discharge into Accotink Creek is halted, but after continuing how long?
- Posted March 31, 2022 |
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Poor storage of winter salt supplies is causing harm to our neighboring watershed, Pohick Creek.
- Posted March 31, 2022 |
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Grace Presbyterian Church includes preservation of Nature in its mission.
- Posted February 4, 2022 |
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Winter salt hurts Accotink Creek. Citizen science documents the impact. Learn what can be done.
- Posted January 12, 2022 |
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Another plan to pave the woods in the name of supposed 'environmental' benefits.
- Updated January 22, 2022 |
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What is the future of Friends of Accotink Creek? Is it bright new sunrise or dimming sunset?
- Posted January 23, 2020 |
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now."
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