VOF Special Project Areas

The Board of Trustees of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation may occassionally designate certain areas in the Commonwealth as Special Project Areas. Special Project Areas are particular geographic regions where protection through easements is especially warranted and where VOF expects to concentrate resources. One or more of the following factors may aid in justifying the designation of Special Project Areas:

A. The area is of statewide natural, scenic, historic, scientific, open-space, or recreational significance. One or more of the following documents may help identify such significance:

• The Virginia Outdoors Plan;
  
• The locality's Comprehensive Land Use Plan;
  
• Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas Study;
  
• Division of Natural Heritage database;
  
• The Virginia Landmarks Register;
  
• Other statewide or federal planning documents.

B. Local landowners have indicated their support.

C. A local land trust, conservation group, other organization, or state or federal agency has expressed an interest in working with VOF to encourage protection of the area.

D. The local government has indicated an interest in protection of the area through easements.

VOF's current Special Project Areas

VOF currently has 8 Special Project Areas in the Commonwealth. Click on the links to learn about each of them.

• Bull Run Mountains, Fauquier and Prince William counties
• Cat Point Creek Watershed, Richmond and Westmoreland counties
• Catawba Valley, Montgomery and Roanoke counties
• Eastern Shore, Accomack and Northampton counties
• Middlebrook-Brownsburg Corridor, Augusta and Rockbridge counties
• Headwaters of the North Fork Shenandoah River, Frederick and Shenandoah counties
• Scenic 340, Page and Warren counties
• Spring Valley, Grayson County

Click here to learn how you can nominate an area for Special Project Area designation.