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:	Brocks Gap Natural Area Preserve
Category:	Natural Area Preservation
Grant Round:	FY23
Acres:	244.00
Locality:	Rockingham County
Management Agency:	Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation - Division of Natural Heritage
Owner:	State
ConserveVirginia:	Agriculture & Forestry, Natural Habitat & Ecosystem Diversity, Floodplains & Flooding Resilience, Scenic Preservation
Amount Awarded:	$670,000.00
Applicant:	Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation - Division of Natural Heritage
Latitude:	38.635291
Longitude:	-78.866463
Description:	DCR’s Natural Heritage Division seeks $670,000 to protect 244 contiguous acres along the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in Rockingham County that falls within one of the state’s most significant ecological cores. This project is located in one of Virginia’s essential conservation sites and will establish a new Natural Area Preserve. The property features Virginia’s largest and best example of globally rare Northern White Cedar Forest, as well as a population of state threatened Wood Turtles. The site lies along the North Mountain fault; a major geologic boundary defining the edge of the Shenandoah Valley. The tracts intersect four categories of ConserveVirginia and although the Cultural and Historic layer is not one of these, a pitched battle took place here on October 6, 1864, between General George Custer’s cavalry division and that of Confederate General Thomas Rosser, known as the Battle of Brock’s Gap.