VLCF Funded Projects
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: |
Highwater Farm |
| Category: |
Farmland Preservation |
| Grant Round: |
FY16 |
| Acres: |
181.65 |
| Locality: |
Fauquier |
| Management Agency: |
Fauquier County |
| Owner: |
Private |
| ConserveVirginia: |
None |
| Amount Awarded: |
$72,500.00 |
| Applicant: |
Fauquier County |
| Latitude: |
38.50621542 |
| Longitude: |
-77.715404 |
| Description: |
The grant request from Fauquier County Agricultural Development Department was for the purchase of development rights and placement of a conservation easement on a 182-acre beef-cattle farm that includes 60 acres of pine woodlands. Protection of the property, which is part of the 19,000-acre Southern Fauquier Agricultural and Forestal District, helps accomplish one of the major goals of the county's PDR program, which is to establish a critical mass of protected farmland and open space. The project will include vegetated riparian buffers along 4,000 feet of frontage on two streams in the Rappahannock watershed. Fauquier County received a grant award of $72,500 for this project.
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
