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:	Bull Run Mountains NAP Addition - Eastern Overlook
Category:	Natural Area Preservation
Grant Round:	FY23
Acres:	10.13
Locality:	Prince William County
Management Agency:	Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation - Division of Natural Heritage
Owner:	State
ConserveVirginia:	Natural Habitat & Ecosystem Diversity, Protected Landscapes Resilience
Amount Awarded:	$500,000.00
Applicant:	Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Latitude:	38.880920
Longitude:	-77.683243
Description:	The Virginia Outdoors Foundation, in collaboration with DCR’s Division of Natural Heritage, was awarded a $500,000 VLCF grant to acquire an adjoining 10.13 acres as an addition to Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve (BRMNAP) in Prince William County. This tract enhances VOF and DCR’s protection of key visual and ecological buffers overlooking the heavily developed Piedmont towards Washington, DC and protects critical habitat above BRMNAP’s biodiversity hotspot, brook trout reintroduction sites, and wetlands. The property includes an upland forest dominated by chestnut oak and blackjack oak with an ericaceous understory that includes highbush blueberry, lowbush blueberry, and black huckleberry providing critical food and habitat for numerous species of conservation concern. Lastly, the site contains one of the last den sites of the threatened timber rattlesnake population not already protected by BRMNAP and is located in one of Virginia’s “essential conservation sites” as well as a third-highest-ranked “ecological core”.
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