VLCF Funded Projects
Virginia’s working farms and forests, battlefields and other historic sites, natural areas, parks and rivers are critical to its economy, culture and quality of life. In 1999, the assembly and governor established the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation (VLCF) to fund protection of these resources. The interactive map below depicts VLCF-grant projects funded since 2000.
| Name: |
Big Woods Project (FY07) |
| Category: |
Forestland Preservation |
| Grant Round: |
FY07 |
| Acres: |
4,192.95 |
| Locality: |
Sussex County |
| Management Agency: |
Virginia Department of Forestry |
| Owner: |
State |
| ConserveVirginia: |
None |
| Amount Awarded: |
$300,000.00 |
| Applicant: |
Virginia Department of Forestry |
| Latitude: |
36.9429228 |
| Longitude: |
-77.052445 |
| Description: |
The grant award of $300,000 to Virginia Department of Forestry assisted in the acquisition of a portion of the Big Woods property in Sussex County to create the first state forest in southeastern Virginia. The project provides the opportunity to conserve a disappearing feature of Virginia's coastal landscape - large, contiguous blocks of timberland. In addition, the property provides forests that will assist in the recovery efforts of the federally listed threatened and endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker, found on the adjacent conserved property to the north. Big Woods protects the water supply for the Norfolk area, provides flood abatement to the Nottoway and Blackwater watersheds, and provides a very significant block of working forest.
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
