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:	Milton Farm Phase 2
Category:	Natural Area Preservation
Grant Round:	FY13
Acres:	145
Locality:	Montgomery County
Management Agency:	Virginia Outdoors Foundation/Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Owner:	Private
ConserveVirginia:	None
Amount Awarded:	$169,250.00
Applicant:	Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Latitude:	37.19588822
Longitude:	-80.273588
Description:	The Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) utilized a VLCF grant to purchase an open-space easement and natural area preserve dedication with the Department of Conservation and Recreation on 145 acres of privately owned land in Montgomery County. This project was given a grant award of $169,250, and was the second phase of a two phase project to project rare species and significant natural communities in the Pedler Hills region of Montgomery County. Like the first phase of this project, the easement protects habitat for several rare plant species, and includes a significant Ridge and Valley dolomite woodland natural community. The property adjoins a 257-acre tract (Milton Phase One) that was protected through an open-space easement and deed of natural area preserve dedication recorded in October of 2012. This project also protects open space values of Montgomery County as the forested hillsides on the property, viewed daily by the thousands of travelers on the I-81 corridor adjacent to this property, will remain forever in a forested condition.