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Project Pivotal-Rig

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The Home Site of Project Pivotal-Rig A potential project of the Woodland Community Land Trust

The Project is designed to present options

• for work of The Trust related to their lands (about 400 acres)
• for a lasting enterprise working locally, then regionally and internationally, that has significant influence on the conservation, preservation, restoration, and management of natural resources and the people dependent upon them
• for a system of modern, sophisticated, computer-aided natural resource management.

The Project provides the Pivotal Strategy which attempts to address:

• a very local problem, i.e., activity on 400 acres of The Trust
• activity related to the people of Clearfork Valley of Tennessee and Kentucky (about 6000 people within 12 communities)
• activity regionally and nationally to achieve economic viability and improved land management.

As part of The Pivotal Strategy there is a section of ideas about small enterprises which, if worked together, can improve and manage the land, and provide financial benefits to the people of the Clearfork Valley and the region.

There is a Table of Contents.

Chip off the New Block, ideas for a practical start to the project for life from the coalfield.

Walk with me my mountain sisters and brothers as we dance through our journey and move toward our future.

Links to related organizations and groups:

• Federation of Appalachian Housing
• Christian Appalachian Project
• In Praise of Mountain Women
• National Congress of Neighborhood Women (Advocates women's and community development), 249 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211, (718) 388-6666
• GROOTS,Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood
• Appalachian-based Community Development Education, ABCDE
• Glenmary
• Lasting Forests
• Stories from an Appalachian Community by Marie Cirillo
• The Jellico Rock Obstacle Challenge Course
• The Eastern Rock Crawling Contest
• The Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech (fwiexchg@vt.edu)
• Managing Wholes
• The Watershed Management Council
• The Native Fish Conservancy
• Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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This Web site is maintained by R. H. Giles, Jr.
Last revision November 15, 2002.