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Fall 2011 Newsletter
Conservation | Adaptive Reuse | Environmental Education

Summer 2011 Newsletter
Fox Hollow Farm, MI | Timberland Meets Recreations | Monetizing Ecosystem Services

Spring 2011 Newsletter
Wildlife Management | Conservation Communities | Cows, Plows, and Wildlife

Fall 2010 Newsletter
Rural Conservation Model | Stewardship from Ridge to Valley | Stream Bioengineering

Summer 2010 Newsletter
Texas Hill Country Equine | El Salvador Sustainable Resort | Virginia Finest Trout Fishery

Spring 2010 Newsletter
Trout River Restoration | Beretta Trident Program | Working Landscape Symposium

Inaugural Newsletter

Company News

Sept. 28, 2011 -- Seeking Regional Representatives

Field Sport Concepts is seeking energetic and qualified representatives focused on business development to cultivate leads and develop new client relationships in regional markets.  Our expectation is that representatives will help FSC to enter new markets by providing introductions to prospective clients and identifying new business opportunities.  Successful candidates should have a background in real estate, land management, or marketing with strong experience in conservation.  Compensation will be in the form of commission-based finder's fees.

Should you be interested in joining the Field Sport Concepts team, or if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Bob McKee at rmckee@fieldsport.com.

May 1, 2010 -- Panorama International, Inc., a Field Sport Concepts affiliate, was among the sponsors of the 2010 CATHIE Conference.  Meeting in El Salvador, April 13th through 15th, The Central Americal Tourism & Hotel Investment Exchange, supported by FIAS of The World Bank [Foreign Investment Advisory Service] conducted a full set of programs that ran along side an active networking/exhibit hall.  Salons met to discuss several topics, among which were "The Outlook for Central America with the 'Great Recession' Coming to an End, Where Are We Headed?"  and "Central American Regional Integration--The Status, The Challenges and The Opportunities."  Read more about this informative, energy filled conference here.

April 16, 2010 -- Sagamore Farm, restoration design by Field Sport Concepts' affiliates Blackburn Architects and McKee Carson, is featured in a new book published by Rizzoli.  Stables: Beautiful Paddocks, Horse Barns, and Tack Rooms by Kathryn Masson with photography by Paul Rocheleau shows the farm both on a few inside pages as well as on the back cover.  Amazon.com is an easy way to acquire the book here.

April 9, 2010 -- Bob McKee, founding principal of McKee Carson, attended Environment Virginia's 2010 symposium held at Virginia Military Institute, April 6th through 8th:  Optimizing Stewardship in a Challenging Economy.    Over 600 participants chose to attend presentations and panel discussions focusing on ecosystems services/conservation finance, as well as several separate tracks of conference topics:

• Regulatory Updates:  Air, Water, Stormwater, and Waste Management
• Restoring the Chesapeake Bay
• Strategic Land Conservation
• Energy Development
• Viable and Sustainable Farms
• Adapting to Climate Change
• (Re-) Development

Read more about this fascinating conference here.

February 15, 2010 -- FSC affiliate, John Higgins, establishes the British American Sporting Club

As you read this story, February 2010, work is underway to bring the finesse and acumen of the highest caliber of services in outdoor recreation to a new venue in the resort industry. Under the auspices of the managing partners, John Higgins and Rhonda Young, the British American Sporting Club is being built in historic Crawfordville, Georgia, in the United States.

Higgins has a background of expert shooting instruction and shooting instructor training as well as teaching many other recreational pursuits. He brings to the venture the experience of twenty years instructing at The Yeavely Estate in Derbyshire, England. Since 1991, he has been in the United States, instructing and training nationally and internationally, as well as developing shooting and outdoor recreational facilities at The Greenbrier Hotel, Blackberry Farm and Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation to name but a few. In addition, Higgins helped to create and institute the national standard for training and certifying shooting instructors in the United States, as Chief Instructor for the National Sporting Clays Association.

Young holds a Bachelor’s degree in Recreation and Tourism Management form Georgia Southern University. She brings over ten years experience in recreational program design, facility layout and event planning to the mix. In addition, she is an avid outdoor recreationist and has obtained certification in five environmental education curricula. Since 2007, Young has spent much of her time researching and writing marketing plans and developing staff training programs for recreation based businesses. She has completed projects for The Fork Farm & Stables, Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation and Liberty Hill Farm.

Located in the southeast United States, the new British American Sporting Club will benefit from its location in the state of Georgia, only ninety miles from Atlanta, which receives a staggering 37 million visitors each year, and fifty miles from Augusta, home of the Augusta Nationals Golf Tournament. The culture and people of Georgia are an asset to the club as well. Known for their kind, refined manners, they typify what we know as “Southern hospitality”, making the club a great choice for those who want to immerse themselves in the history, heritage and hospitality of the region.

Crawfordville is located in northeast Georgia in the region known as the Classic South. She counts among her distinguished sons, Alexander H. Stephens, who served as U.S. Congressman, Governor of Georgia, and most notably as Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865. Stephen’s home, Liberty Hall, is preserved as a museum and is part of the A.H. Stephens State Park and Historic Site, and is open to the public. Crawfordville’s historic nature and architecture have made it the choice of Hollywood film makers looking for that authentic, Southern town. A total of 13 movies have been made here to include the 2009 filming of “Get Low”, starring Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek.

The British American Sporting Club will span 112 acres and offer accommodations for dining, sporting clays, archery, air rifle, paintball, horseback riding, an outfitting service, quail hunting nearby and an off-road driving course. Assisting in the development of the club are Roy VanGiller, master carpenter of record and Lamar Nix of F&M Bank in Crawfordville, and the Taliaferro County Chamber of Commerce and tremendous support from elected officials.

October 29, 2009 - McKee Carson principal, Bob McKee, participates in Bundoran Farm's Residential Development and the Working Landscape symposium.

Located at Bundoran Farm in Albemarle County, Virginia, The Baldwin Center for Preservation Development is a non-profit foundation that describes its mission as “to showcase innovative practices in agricultural preservation, environmental stewardship and sustainable growth”.

To further its mission, The Baldwin Center sponsored its inaugural symposium, Residential Development and the Working Landscape in October 2009. McKee Carson principal Bob McKee participated in the symposium along with more than 50 others from private, public and non-profit sector interests around the country representing farming and agriculture, forestry, outdoor recreation, land trusts and conservation, development and real estate. They were joined by professors from the Universities of Virginia, North Carolina, and Massachusetts, as well as Ohio State and Harvard. The major non-profit organizations represented were The Nature Conservancy, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the U.S. Green Building Council and the Piedmont Environmental Council.

Bundoran Farm was developed jointly by Qroe Farm Preservation Development and Celebration Associates and master planned and engineered by McKee Carson, incorporating many of the ideas and practices of Field Sport Concepts, Ltd. This project is an example of the integration of residential use with a working farm and preservation of rural and forest landscape that allows people to interact on many levels without destroying the character and natural resources of the land.

You can read a complete account of the symposium at http://blog.bundoranfarm.com/build-it-farm-it-and-they-will-come/.

Audubon International has designated Bundoran Farm as a "Certified Gold Signature Sanctuary" an honor awarded only to those developments which are designed, constructed, and maintained according to Audubon International's exacting standards for planning and environmental stewardship.  Bundoran Farm is the first development in the Commonwealth of Virginia to receive this honor and the first working farm to be certified in the Audubon International Signature Programs.

This award recognizes the values that Field Sport Concepts has always espoused -- developing land in an environmentally sustainable manner while maintaining the economic value for the landowner. Conservation of rural land and wildlife habitat can coexist with the manmade landscape to create a place that is preserved for future generations.