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New Town Development
Williamsburg, Virginia

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Carson-Suffolk-Thrasher
Ft. Pickett
New Town Development

New Town is an approximately 375-acre parcel ideally located between Colonial Williamsburg and Route 199 in Williamsburg, Virginia.  It is designed to be the new town center of Williamsburg, featuring a “new urban” design that incorporates commercial and residential developments that are pedestrian oriented for life, work, and play.   Williamsburg Environmental Group, Inc. (WEG) has been an integral part of the design, planning, and permitting of this project. Fundamental to the success of this project has been the sound environmental resource and site constraint identification and management that WEG Ecologists have provided.  These services include detailed wetland delineations and assessments, stream assessments, watershed analysis, and natural community inventories.  Of significant highlight has been WEG's involvement with the management of rare plant species on the project property. The property contains one of the most significant Isotria medeoloides (small whorled pogonia) populations historically known from the Mid-Atlantic States.  Documented in the early 1900's, the colony has been studied in detail by past scientists.  WEG continues to assist in these studies, and now plays an important role in its conservation.

In an annual census, WEG Ecologists, who are recognized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) as survey contacts, conduct detailed surveys of the colony and surrounding habitat to monitor population.  Several outlying plants have been discovered from these surveys.  WEG often teams with botanists from the College of Williams & Mary in these studies.  WEG continues to coordinate with the FWS, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, and the Division of Natural Heritage to determine the optimum management strategy for conservation of this population.  WEG continues to advise and educate the landowner about the plant through interpretive outreach field visits as well as developing a formal document describing in detail the plant, habitat requirements, and reproductive strategy. WEG also provides on-going advice on the management and regulatory implications for the colony.

This project highlights WEG's standing as a small whorled pogonia authority in the region.

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