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Name:	Difficult Creek NAP Addition (withdrawn)
Category:	Natural Area Preservation
Grant Round:	FY18
Acres:	68.8
Locality:	Halifax County
Management Agency:
Owner:
ConserveVirginia:	None
Amount Awarded:	$174,200.00
Applicant:	Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
Latitude:	36.7538277
Longitude:	-78.716852
Description:	DCR's Natural Heritage Program received a grant award of $174,200 to acquire approximately 69 acres in Halifax County as an addition to the Difficult Creek Natural Area Preserve. This Preserve is designed to protect one of the most significant conservation sites in the piedmont and one of the most diverse and significant botanical assemblages in all of Virginia. Not only does the site have the highest diversity of wildflowers known in the Virginia Piedmont, it provides habitat for 12 species of plants and one species of butterfly that are rare in the Commonwealth. Of special significance is one of only two known populations in the world for Tall Barbara's Buttons (Marshallia legrandii). Not only did the subject tract directly adjoin the existing Preserve, with which it shared nearly 3,200 feet of boundary, it also filled an unprotected gap between the NAP and the nearby Kerr Reservoir lands protected and managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. This project was withdrawn.