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GRANT SPOTLIGHT

The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News has received a Get Outdoors grant from the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, helping to make Mariners’ Lake accessible to everyone.

VOF seeks grant proposals for public open space projects

Foundation makes $1.13 million available in spring 2021 from Preservation Trust Fund and Get Outdoors grant programs.

March 1, 2021 No Comments

VOF announces $1.9 million in grants for public open space projects

Grants support 33 projects in 25 localities, with an emphasis on high-need communities.

February 9, 2021 No Comments

Buffer program works with landowners in Upper/Middle James River

Effort led by James River Association, Virginia Department of Forestry, and Chesapeake Bay Foundation funds tree plantings that protect streams.

January 26, 2021 No Comments

Feature

Grass Roots: Restoring Virginia’s Grassland Legacy

Anita Angelone December 9, 2020 3 Comments

Virginia’s grassland habitats have suffered immense losses since European colonization. Some landowners are trying to reverse the trend.

The 144-acre Phillips Farm provides more than just the viewshed for the historic village of Waterford. It is also the site of a nature trail, a monarch butterfly way station, and an outdoor classroom for Loudoun County K-12 students.

Wildwood Park, City of Radford

March 5, 2021 3 Comments

A successful advocacy campaign by Pathfinders for Radford and an enthusiastic city administration saved Wildwood Park, the wild heart of the city of Radford.

Snead’s Asparagus Farm, Caroline County

December 11, 2020 2 Comments

Emmett Snead and his family have been selling cut-your-own Christmas trees on his farm 10 minutes outside of Fredericksburg since the mid-1980s. Five days a

The Preserve’s Spotlight Species: Spring Ephemerals (part 1)

April 10, 2021 No Comments

Learn about three of many the spring ephemerals popping up around the Preserve: spring beauty, trout lily, and Dutchman’s breeches.

The Preserve’s Spring Spotlight Species: Garter Snake

April 3, 2021 No Comments

Garter snakes are on the move at the Preserve, find out more about their natural history storiessss.

Ethnobotany at the Preserve

March 30, 2021 No Comments

Liliana Ramirez, a Smithsonian Mason School of Conservation student, begins her project this week surveying vegetation at the Preserve through an ethnobotanical lens.