Greetings from the Executive Director:

We're off to a running start in 2008. Our big news for March is our moving project. During the closing days of February, we boxed up our office in West Jefferson and painted and readied our new space at Family Central in Jefferson. While we're surrounded by boxes and can't quite put our fingers on everything just yet, we're quickly getting settled.

We continue to protect land important to the New, including over 800 acres in 2007 (that’s over 5,000 acres in total). Restoration of the streams and riverbanks is getting done; NCNR worked on 5.8 miles in 2007 and almost 60 miles over the years. Water quality is being monitored; NCNR is expanding its volunteer water quality monitoring program to include even more counties in Virginia and West Virginia.

We began 2008 with great optimism, even as we recognize the challenges before us. We’ll continue to protect more land and restore more riverbank than we did the year before. We’ll continue building partnerships and developing relationships with groups and organizations throughout the watershed that want to protect this magnificent river. We’ll continue to meet the threats to the News’s future and face the challenges that lie ahead.

Thank you again for your continued support of our vital work as stewards of the New River. Please view the pages here and let us know what you think, what else you’d like to know about NCNR – and please contact us to volunteer or contribute to our efforts. With your help, we’ll continue to protect this most precious of our natural resources.

Without our supporters, our mission to protect the New River could not be conceived of, nor addressed. And, to those of you reading this who have donated your time and your financial resources, thank you very much.

- For the River, George Santucci