Responding to Climate Change
- In response to dam removal, City of Lexington initiates Jordan’s Point Master Plan
- RACC participates, developing alternatives C and D
<click image to download high-resolution image of both alternatives>
- No funding exists for work on the park in currently proposed budget
- Future of the mill race and historic dock structuces uncertain
- More info
- Involved since the beginning, RACC is continuing its effort to protect and maintain the House Mountain Preserve
- See the House Moutain Video from the RACC Annual Meeting by Steven M. Shire
- General information on House Mountain, including the House Mountain Story
- RACC files suit for Declaratory Judgment on House Mountain agreements. Press Release
- RACC responds to VOF resolution eliminating House Mountain management agreements. Press Release
- RACC supports proposed Renewable Energy Resolution for Rockbridge County Board of Supervisors
- 4th National Climate Assessment (US Government) Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (Volume I was released in 2017)
“The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century.”- website with summary information, links to previous releases and downloads
- Summary Findings (PDF)
- Report in Brief (PDF) includes the summary findings and important data
- more information here