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:	Ellett Escarpment - Eastern Divide South
Category:	Natural Area Preservation
Grant Round:	FY25
Acres:	84.00
Locality:	Montgomery County
Management Agency:	Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Owner:	State
ConserveVirginia:	Natural Habitat & Ecosystem Diversity, Floodplains & Flooding Resilience
Amount Awarded:	$975,219.00
Applicant:	Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Natural Heritage
Latitude:	37.227664
Longitude:	-80.388634
Description:	The Department of Conservation and Recreation's Division of Natural Heritage (DCR-DNH) was awarded funding to protect approximately 84 acres in Montgomery County. The underlying karst landscape supports a portion of Virginia's best population of one of the Commonwealth's most imperiled species, lying within one of Virginia's essential conservation sites. Global persistence of this imperiled species rests entirely on conservation work in Virginia, as the worldwide range is located immediately east of Blacksburg where development pressures are severe; protection of this species must occur now, before it is too late. The subject acreage would also benefit another significantly rare species similarly confined to Virginia, as well as mature calcareous forests, and approximately 1,100' of tributaries to the North Fork Roanoke River. The tract falls within two categories of Conserve Virginia: Natural Habitat & Ecosystem Diversity and Floodplains & Flooding Resilience. These values will be protected, in perpetuity, through the establishment of a new Natural Area Preserve if this project is successful.
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