Department of Conservation and Recreation
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
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: | Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve Addition (Highpoint Lane Parcel) |
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| Category: | Natural Area Preservation |
| Grant Round: | FY26 |
| Acres: | 5.49 |
| Locality: | Fauquier County |
| Management Agency: | Virginia Outdoors Foundation |
| Owner: | Private |
| ConserveVirginia: | Natural Habitat & Ecosystem Diversity, Floodplains & Flooding Resilience, Protected Landscapes Resilience |
| Amount Awarded: | $411,000.00 |
| Applicant: | Virginia Outdoors Foundation |
| Latitude: | -77.707354 |
| Longitude: | 38.849070 |
| Description: | The Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF), in collaboration with the Department of Conservation and Recreation’s Division of Natural Heritage, will acquire five acres as an addition to Bull Run Mountains Natural Area Preserve (BRMNAP) in Fauquier County. Situated below the western-most ridge of the Bull Run Mountains and the rare pine-oak/heath woodlands that make up the Highpoint Conservation Area, this tract enhances VOF and DCR’s protection of a key visual and ecological site that typifies the Bull Run Mountains ecological corridor. Along with protecting critical habitat just below BRMNAP’s most fragile summit ecosystem, protection of this parcel will prevent incompatible development on a fragile ecosystem under heavy development threat. In addition, the property supports a section of Central Appalachian/Inner Piedmont Chestnut Oak Forest mapped as an Element Occurrence and several cultural history features. VOF was awarded a VLCF grant of $411,000 for this acquisition. |
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