Watershed Restoration

Habitat Restoration

JRA continues to work toward restoring, enhancing and/or establishing streamside buffers throughout the James River watershed. Healthy, vegetated buffers along a stream help remove pollutants that might otherwise flow directly into our waterways; buffers also provide important habitat for wildlife. Through the end of 2008, JRA along with our many valuable volunteers and partnering organizations, has planted over 40,000 native trees and shrubs along more than 21 miles of shoreline. This equates to an area of more than 210 acres.

The most recent project includes the enhancement of streamside buffer along Horsepen Branch in Henrico County. This 1.8 mile stretch was part of the Extreme Stream Makeover in October 2008, funded in part by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Altria, and Honeywell.