VOF and Wetlands Watch are partnering to support projects that improve resilience to flooding, sea level rise, and extreme weather events in Virginia’s coastal communities. The application deadline is April 4, 2023.
880,000
acres in Virginia protected.
4,000
miles of rivers and streams.
150
miles of hiking and biking trails.
2
acres conserved every hour since 1966.
Start here if you have open space that you would like to protect with help from the Virginia Outdoors Foundation.
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$185,000 available for projects that seek to achieve increased resilience to flooding, sea level rise, and extreme weather events in Virginia’s coastal communities.
VOF is seeking proposals for projects that will create safe access to open space and provide other public benefits.
Latest grants support parks, trails, tribal lands, youth programs and other projects that increase public access to open space in 21 different counties and cities.
Virginia’s grassland habitats have suffered immense losses since European colonization. Some landowners are trying to reverse the trend.
The Rockfish Valley Foundation maintains trails, a park, and a natural history center designed to help kids make connections between indoors and out.
Educator Carley Pavan-Ballard’s efforts to get her classes outside and learning after the COvid-19 lockdown turned into a school- and county-wide project building and maintaining a resource for the entire community.
Back in 2020, we here at the preserve put out our first report to share in one place all the fantastic projects, people, and pictures for the year. We are
2021-22 Natural Science Fellow Lauren Fuchs has been hard at work sampling the skin microbiomes of BRMNAP’s resident snakes. We will be sharing the full results of her ambitious study
Student partnerships have been a constant source of inspiration and hope for our staff here at VOF’s Preserve at Bull Fun Mountains. Back in 2019, industrious students form James Madison
