Resource Guide: Creating Walkable Piedmont Communities
Piedmont Environmental Council and the Coalition for Smarter Growth released a guidebook for local governments and stakeholders to implement projects to promote walkable communities.
OPINION: State budget delivers for clean water and protected land
Money talks, and our bipartisan state budget reflects the values of the commonwealth. In an Op-Ed, VCN celebrates a bipartisan budget deal that allocates historic levels of funding for clean water.
Virginia Security Corridor Project Underway
The newly established Virginia Security Corridor will increase increase military preparedness, strengthen climate resilience, and support working lands while conserving natural resources.
ROUNDUP: Virginia’s Land Preservation Tax Credit Protects over 1 Million Acres
Sen. Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. announces over 1 million acres of Virginia land conserved thanks to Virginia's Land Preservation Tax Credit—a major milestone for the conservation community.
Land & Wildlife Conservation Policy for Virginia
Watch the Good Governance educational webinar, featuring our briefing book authors and their policy papers along with training on how to advocate for the state budget.
Land Conservation Policy: 2022 General Assembly Review
See how our land conservation policies to protect BIPOC resources, local farms, native species, and wildlife corridors fared this session.
Bill of the Day: Preserving BIPOC Resources
For Black History month, we are highlighting several bills that VCN and our Partners are supporting in this General Assembly session to improve the preservation of BIPOC historic and cultural resources.
Multi-Use Trails Initiative Report
See the Multi-Use Trail Initiative, a report on multi-use trail master planning, prioritization, and funding.
ROUNDUP: Virginia Conservation Community on the State Budget
Governor Northam's outgoing budget proposal prioritized our natural resources through historic investments in Virginia’s natural resources - fully funding nearly all of the Virginia conservation community’s budget asks which we outlined in Our Common Agenda.