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 […]

Highland County resident John Sweet has been named Valley Conservation Council’s Conservator of the Year. The award, presented at Valley Conservation Council’s (VCC) annual conservation celebration, recognized Sweet’s lifetime of environmental stewardship, culminating most recently with a donation of his 386-acre farm to the organization. “When it came time for VCC’s board and staff to […]

Virginia Peninsula Land Trusts Join Hands Across the Rivers for Resource Protection and Public Benefit The Historic Virginia Land Conservancy (HVLC) and the Middle Peninsula Land Trust (MPLT) are pleased to announce the merger of their two organizations, combining their experience and resources to continue and expand protection of invaluable natural spaces in our area. […]

Aerial view of Brush Mountain properties New River Land Trust has requested a $1.2 million grant form the Forest CORE Fund, a forest mitigation fund from Mountain Valley Pipeline, to purchase 553 acres of intact forest on Brush Mountain in order to create two adjacent parks: one in the Town of Blacksburg and one in […]

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