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Of every dollar appropriated in the 2000-2002 state budget, barely a
penny (less than one percent) goes to natural resources.
It's not farmland without farmers. With the economic
challenges that rural areas are facing, farmland and forestland
protection will not succeed in the long term without an accompanying
economic development approach.
We need your help to get this program adopted. It will
establish a Virginia Agricultural Vitality Task Force within the
Department of Agriculture that will put together a program to
support farmland retention AND farmers.
Virginia’s forests provide innumerable services to state citizens –
from clean water and air, to crucial wildlife habitat and biodiversity,
as well as scenic beauty and recreation. Unfortunately, these
forests are under threat from industrial logging, development, and
conversion to monoculture pine plantations.
Sponsored by The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, The Nature Conservatory, and
The Trust For Public Land. Click Here
There are several bills and budget amendments relating to the
Virginia Land Conservation Foundation, which are being considered by the
2000 General Assembly. Below is a brief summary and status of the
various provisions.
The latest figures
from the USDA indicate between 1982 and 1997, we lost 834,000 acres of
rural land in Virginia - and of that loss each year, close to 49,000
acres is farmland and 9,000 acres are forested.
The Case for a Dedicated Funding Source
for Land Conservation in Virginia: A Report from the
Conservation Land Coalition, August, 1999.
Virginia is one of only three states on the eastern seaboard without
dedicated state funding for land conservation.
Appalachian
Society of American Foresters, Blue Ridge Chapter
Appalachian Society of American Foresters, Virginia Division
Appalachian Trail Conference
American Farmland Trust
Americans for Our Heritage & Recreation
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
Blue Ridge Foothills Conservancy
Central Virginia Battlefield Trust
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Coalition for Smarter Growth
Common Ground
Community Strategies
Conserve Virginia
Environmental Law Institute
Fairfax County Federation of Citizen Associations
Friends of North Fork Shenandoah River
Garden Club of Virginia
Hanover Citizens for Quality of Life
Historic Fredericksburg Foundation
James River Association
Land Trust Alliance
Land Trust of Virginia
Middle Peninsula Land Trust
Northern Virginia Conservation Trust
Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation (Red Hill)
Piedmont Environmental Council
Piedmont Environmental Council
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
Preservation Alliance of Virginia
Richmond Audubon Society
Robert E. Lee Soil and Water Conservation District
Rockbridge Area Conservation Council
Rockingham Bird Club
Scenic America
Scenic Virginia
Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Commission
Sierra Club
Soil and Water Conservation Districts, Region II
Southern Environmental Law Center
Spotsylvania Preservation Foundation
State Resource Strategies
The Conservation Fund
The 500 Year Forest Foundation
The Nature Conservancy
The Potomac Conservancy
Trust for Public Land
Valley Conservation Council
Virginia Association of Counties
Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (Area II)
Virginia Conservation Network
Virginia Creeper Trail Club
Virginia Institute of Environmental Negotiation
Virginia Municipal League
Virginia Outdoors Foundation
Virginia Recreation & Parks Society
Virginia Society of Ornithology
Western Virginia Land Trust
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