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Project Pivotal-Rig

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The Ideas Page of Project Pivotal-Rig A potential project of Rural Nelson

You are invited to read and study the materials within this web site and then to make informed suggestions and give advice toward the success of the Project or any part of it. Maybe you care to volunteer for some of the difficult work ahead.

Links to practical alternatives are invited (as are pointers to fatal flaws and warnings). Your name and date will be presented unless you indicate that you wish your idea to remain anonymous. Selections of items to be included are made by Bob Giles and, while he maintains a file, his judgement on what to include and exclude and a little editing is final. If commenting on ideas or suggestions made, please refer to the number.

Checkout the ideas received so far.

You can call Bob anytime in Virginia at 1-540-552-8672. This is not a toll-free number. You may write to him at 504 Rose Avenue, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060 USA or use e-mail, either the form below or by a direct link.

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Ideas and Comments Received as of June 30, 2002

1. We're perfectly located in the County for a working laboratory for planning and natural resource management for community colleges and for work between UVa and Va Tech. Anon.

2. The Rockfish Valley can become a demonstration area for progressive, profit- motivated modern watershed management. Anon.

3. How about forming a group interested in sem-precious and decorator stones from the area? This could be separate or it could work with The Prospectors. Anon.

4. The project will never succeed. Greed will eventually kill it. Anon.

5. You have to start small like I did and build up. You'll never find the right kind of talented people needed to run this thing. Anon

6. There may need to be some operations outside of the County. Maybe an "Outpost" at the Explore Park (Roanoke) could be a visible place for our work, a good low- or no-cost office, and a marketing strategy. There may other similar sites such as the Woodland Community Land Trust in Clairfield, Tennessee. Anon.

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This Web site is maintained by R. H. Giles, Jr.
Last revision June 22, 2002.