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Notice: IRS rule changes that may affect your conservation easement.
Please let this serve as notice to our conservation easement donors that a recent IRS notice that may impact your easement and federal tax deduction. In response to recent legislation passed by Congress, the IRS issued Notice 2023-30 in late April of this year. Notice...
The Living River Trust is now Coastal Virginia Conservancy
Norfolk, Virginia. March 20, 2023 Serendipitously coinciding with the spring equinox, today Norfolk based non-profit The Living River Trust announced its name change to Coastal Virginia Conservancy. The new descriptor reflects the organization’s expanded goal to...
Reck on the Road: Paradise Creek
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The Living River Trust just wrapped up a 12-month project to remove pollutants and clean the river bottom at Paradise Creek in Portsmouth. It is one of the many projects LRT is doing to improve water quality along the Elizabeth River.
Paradise Clean Up Effort Complete
PORTSMOUTH, VA With a hand from local environmental non-profit, the Living River Trust, Portsmouth’s Paradise Creek again lives up to its name. After an intense 12- month cleanup effort, work is complete cleaning one of the Elizabeth River’s pollutant hotspots. “The...
READ: Rob Robins: Preserving open space essential to Hampton Roads | Virginian-Pilot
As we persevere through these tough times, the Living River Trust thought this would be the perfect time to share some good news. In April, the Living River Trust set aside for permanent protection nearly 500 acres of forest at the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in...
