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Inspiration:


  • Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
  • Cornell Lab of Orinthology
  • No Child Left Inside
  • Captain John Smith National Historic Trail
  • Chesapeake Bay Executive Order
  • Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge
  • Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge
  • Virginia CZM Program
  • Tom Ridge Environmental Center
  • Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge
  • Shaw Nature Preserve
  • VCU Rice Center
  • Student Conservation Association
  • CVWO at First Landing State Park
  • Robinson Preserve
  • Center for Conservation Bilology
  • Coastal Virginia Wildlife Observatory


  • Meeting Executive Order CHESAPEAKE BAY PROTECTION AND RESTORATION
Soul of the inspiration is protecting habitat for the known avian species that need PHP to survive.

Check out the links in the right column.

 

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...inspiration for preserving PHP for future generations. ...funding the idea is this simple. ...a story about what could happen because an environmental learning center locates on PHP.

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Since 2003?

RESIDENTS ANNOUNCE PLAN TO BUY PLEASURE HOUSE POINT
Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - Tuesday, February 25, 2003
Author: SCOTT HARPER
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT

...The foundation will solicit public and private money and seeks to preserve the property for environmental education...


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Over 150 bird species are known to occur in PHP/PHC, here are a few

  • American Black Duck
  • American Crow [Common Crow]
  • American Oystercatcher
  • American Wigeon
  • Bald Eagle
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Black Skimmer
  • Boat-tailed Grackle
  • Brent Goose [Brant]
  • Brown Pelican
  • Bufflehead
  • Canada Goose
  • Canvasback
  • Clapper Rail
  • Common Egret
  • Common Snipe
  • Double-crested Cormorant
  • Gadwall
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Great Egret
  • Greater Black-backed Gull
  • Herring Gull
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Killdeer
  • King Rail
  • Laughing Gull
  • Least Tern
  • Mallard
  • Marsh Wren [Saltmarsh Wren]
  • Mourning Dove
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Ring-billed Gull
  • Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow
  • Seaside Sparrow
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Starlings
  • Willet
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Turtle Species known to occur in PHC/PHP

  • Diamond back terrapin
  • Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  • Kemp's Ridley

CVWO at First Landing State Park

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Definitions

PHP = Pleasure House Point
PHC = Pleasure House Creek

Ken Burns' National Parks - America's Best Idea

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