A unit of Lasting Forests
Sustained forests; sustained profits
evolving since March 30, 1999

The Pivotal Project
developing opportunities within Craig County, Virginia

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The Ideas Place

This web site provides one means for us to communicate. I hope you will contribute your observations, ideas, leads to information about the County , and discoveries. I'll try to use and pass along your contributions. You may also gain information about and services for improving the way that rural lands and wildlands and their resources can be well managed over the longrun for the people of a region or state.

The site is for you and The Project. It is free to use.

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. No anonymous communications are presented. 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. (Later, this Ideas Place will be tended by someone else.)

Checkout the ideas received so far.

Call me anytime in Virginia at 1-540-552-8672. (This is not a toll-free number.) You may write to me 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 August 29, 2002

1. We're perfectly located for a working laboratory for planning and natural resource management for two community colleges, Tech, and Hollins. Anon.

2. This town can become a demonstration area for progressive, profit- motivated modern watershed management. Anon.

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

4. 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.

5. People are protective of their land. They'll not sign up as Pitotal Tracts. Anon.

6. There may need to be a lot of 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. The work here can and should spread westward, and might include other sites and people with equal needs such as Nelson County, Salem, Giles County, all the way to 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.