Land Conservation
Virginia's lands need protection and preservation now more than ever. Successful land conservation requires action and initiative at all levels that is geared toward the protection of a diversity of lands.
VCN's Land Conservation Organizations
Support for land conservation in Virginia is growing. Click on this link to view the list of VCN land conservation member organizations.
Why Is Land Conservation Important?
If current trends continue, over the next 40 years Virginia will lose as many acres of farms, forests, and natural lands to development as have been lost in total in the 400 years since the Commonwealth was settled by Europeans.
Virginia Outdoors Foundation Funding
Virginia has one of the most successful land conservation programs in the nation, with hundreds of thousands of acres in land protected by conservation easements donated to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation.