The Brush Mountain Park Project moved forward in December when the Land Trust closed on the first of 2 properties – 218 acres of intact forest in Blacksburg.  In 2018, the Land Trust received a grant from the Forest CORE Fund, a forest mitigation fund from Mountain Valley Pipeline, to purchase a total of 553 […]

Event:  On Friday, February 22, at 6 p.m., the Goose Creek Association and the Land Trust of Virginia bring you: Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, the acclaimed film based on the book by Miriam Horn of the Environmental Defense Fund.  Three rugged individualists explore how to preserve their way of life by stewarding the land and water […]

Albemarle County (December 12, 2018) – The Land Trust of Virginia, holding more conservation easements than any other private land trust in the Commonwealth, is pleased to announce that 182.4 acres of entirely forested land, located southeast of Batesville, Virginia, is forever protected through the landowner’s donation of a conservation easement.  Located in Albemarle County, Miran Forest has been protected with the intention of providing public access in perpetuity by the landowners, the American Environment […]

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In this issue: 2,800 acres conserved in Giles County Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour NRLT Receives Appalachian Trail Conservancy Grant NRLT Purchases Land for Public Parks Read Fall 2018 Newsletter The post Fall 2018 Newsletter appeared first on New River Land Trust. This article has been featured on our site to highlight the news […]

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Danielle Doss ddoss@nvct.org 703-354-5093 Northern Virginia Land Trust Forever Conserves Land within Public Drinking Watershed Northern Virginia Conservation Trust protects 5.59 acres in Southern Loudoun County Annandale, Virginia – Northern Virginia Conservation Trust (NVCT) announced today that a new property in Southern Loudoun County has been protected for all time. NVCT is […]

This October, Valley Conservation Council (VCC) celebrated the completion of its 50th conservation easement, a significant milestone in the organization’s history. Over the course of the past year, VCC has worked with landowners to protect six new properties in four counties to ensure the permanent preservation of over 1,100 acres. Combined with the donation of […]

Thanks to you, in 2018 VCC doubled the number of acres that we hold in trust forever. Because of you, those acres will always be a place that local foods can grow, the water that we drink can flow through protected buffers, and wild things can seek sanctuary.  Because of you, we’re wrapping our mountains […]

The NRLT Nature Play Space in Blacksburg’s Heritage Park got a new installation recently of a child-sized birdhouse. The house was a community effort funded by the Rotary Club of Blacksburg. Ed Tuchler of Shelter Alternatives designed the birdhouse, and it was built by a team of volunteers from Shelter Alternatives, the Rotary and the community […]

Marc and Eileen Read feel strongly about conserving land, especially when they look across the river from their 89- acre farm and see the small lot subdivision developed in recent years. To ensure that this would never happen to their property, they recently donated a conservation easement to VCC. The easement is designed to protect […]