The Nature Conservancy in Virginia

The Nature Conservancy in Virginia

Non-profit Organizations

Charlottesville, VA 1,184 followers

Seeking creative solutions to Virginia's most complex conservation challenges.

About us

From the Clinch Valley to the Allegheny Highlands; across the Piedmont to the pine savannas of the Tidewater; throughout the Chesapeake Bay and beyond, we're working to create a world where people and nature can thrive.

Industry
Non-profit Organizations
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Charlottesville, VA
Type
Nonprofit

Updates

  • For OktoberForest Fest, brewers at Upweller Beer Company use longleaf pine needles collected from TNC's Piney Grove Preserve to craft the Virginia Collection’s Piney Grove IPA. The “grapefruity notes” from longleaf not only impart a great taste but also evoke a sense of place—in this case, of the iconic longleaf pine savannas of Virginia. Check out the brewing process and taste the Piney Grove IPA at OktoberForest Fest on Sunday, September 15th, hosted by Fine Creek Brewing Company! 🍻 Join us: https://nature.ly/3ADOGEO Can’t make it to Powhatan? Our sister event, the Taste of Virginia Tap Takeover, will bring our OktoberForest beers to locations across Virginia and one in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, October 2. 🍂🍺 Find a location near you: https://nature.ly/4dG8MwG #OktoberForestFest2024 📸 Danny White/TNC

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  • Join us on Wednesday, October 2nd for the Taste of Virginia Tap Takeover, the sister event to our annual OktoberForest Fest! 🍂🍺 Experience our four unique OktoberForest beers at a location near you, brewed with wild ingredients from four TNC Virginia landscapes: sassafras, longleaf pine, red spruce, and eelgrass. Local businesses will be serving these special brews, crafted by four amazing Virginia brewers — Fine Creek Brewing, Väsen Brewing Company, Upweller Beer Co., and Sweetbay Brewing — in collaboration with TNC Virginia. Find a location near you and sample the 2024 Virginia Collection: Charlottesville – Beer Run Richmond – Jack Brown’s Beer and Burger Joint Norfolk – The Birch Bar Alexandria – Evening Star Café Washington, DC – Andy’s Pizza, NOMA Norton – Lincoln Road Coffee Lounge Abingdon – Sweetbay Brewing Company   Stay tuned for the timing details at each location. No registration required. Beer will be on tap until it runs out! Join us: https://nature.ly/46UDKyN 🍻

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  • More than a year ago, our Virginia team partnered with six talented poets through Writing the Land, an initiative that connects poets with protected lands. Through this special project, each poet “adopted” a TNC Virginia preserve and visited that preserve periodically for inspiration. Their beautiful poems are now published in the anthology Writing the Land: Virginia, which also features poetry from 11 other collaborations across the state and a foreword by TNC trustee Dr. Mamie Parker. Meet the poets who worked with TNC: 🌱 Doug Van Gundy (Warm Springs Mountain Preserve) 🌱 J. Indigo Eriksen (Piney Grove Preserve) 🌱 Former Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria and Chelsea Krieg (Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve) 🌱 Tramere Monroe (Clinch Valley) 🌱 Jonathan Cannon (Buck Mountain Creek Conservation Easement, his family farm) 📚✍️ Read a little about each poet and experience the beauty of some of TNC Virginia’s landscapes through their inspiring words: https://nature.ly/4dsSJlQ Art: The Butterfly Effect by Martin Bridge #WritingTheLand #VirginiaPoetry

    Writing the Land: Virginia

    Writing the Land: Virginia

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  • Join us this Thursday, August 22 to hear from Dr. Seth Theuerkauf, renewable energy program specialist with the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and Dr. Jocelyn Runnebaum, marine scientist with TNC’s Maine Chapter, about how potential offshore wind areas are defined and what steps are taken to protect biodiversity and other ocean uses during this second installment in our seven-part series on offshore wind.   Just last week, Dominion Energy secured a nearly 180,000 acre lease from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management east of their Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project off Virginia Beach. This lease area has the potential to produce up to 4 gigawatts of electricity – enough to power up to 1.4 million homes – and bring Virginia over the finish line to produce 5.2 gigawatts of emission free electricity from offshore wind  by 2035. This is great news for climate, and TNC looks forward to working with Dominion to implement conservation-friendly development practices for the benefit of people and nature.   Register now for this week’s webinar: https://nature.ly/3YPVCbW #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #SustainableFuture #TNCEvents

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  • The Nature Conservancy is proud to be the lead partner on a new $400,000 Appalachian Regional Commission grant, funded by the Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economies (ARISE)! The project will work with federal, state and local partners to produce a nature-based tourism asset inventory and prioritized list of outdoor recreation infrastructure needs on publicly accessible lands across the tri-state Cumberland-Pine Mountain corridor of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Heather Furman, Director of TNC’s Appalachians Program, says, “The Nature Conservancy is eager to improve access to public lands in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, vital parts of the Appalachians region, with support from this award and partners. This investment expands opportunities for everyone to benefit from spending time outdoors while enhancing the resilience of nearby communities and natural places.” Read more: https://nature.ly/4fHYoG6 📸: The Cumberland Forest properties sit in the epicenter of elk reintroduction efforts in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. These elk herds have become an important attraction in a burgeoning ecotourism industry. © Nick Proctor/TNC

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  • To craft the 2024 Virginia Collection’s Allegheny Farmhouse Ale, brewers at Fine Creek Brewing Company use sassafras leaves foraged from The Nature Conservancy's Warm Springs Mountain Preserve, bringing the essence of the Appalachians straight to your glass. 🍺🌿 Check out the exciting brewing process and get a taste of this delicious ale at our OktoberForest Fest on September 15th, hosted by Fine Creek Brewing Company!    Join us: https://nature.ly/3Xcy1RL  Videos from: Ann Nallo/TNC Photos: Jessica Jones, Ann Nallo/TNC   #OktoberForestFest2024 

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    In a recent article from The Virginian-Pilot, our State Director Bettina Ring discusses the $47.2 million that TNC Virginia will receive from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant to advance nature-based solutions and reduce carbon emissions across the state.   This funding is part of a $421 million multi-state coalition grant that also includes our TNC chapters in Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina. Altogether, the full grant is the largest ever on record from the EPA for natural climate solutions!   Bettina shares some of the ways Virginia is seeing the impacts of climate change—from severe storms to flooding to droughts—and how the grant will help us leverage the power of nature to solve these challenges.   "Knowing that we can truly use natural resources as a solution to [climate issues] is just huge. The nice thing about those solutions is it supports not only protecting the environment, but it supports the local economy and supports local communities as that social aspect."   Check out the full story to learn more about how the funding will be used in Virginia and how the multi-state coalition secured this gift: https://nature.ly/3SIRyGq

    The Nature Conservancy Virginia receives more than $45 million for carbon reduction

    The Nature Conservancy Virginia receives more than $45 million for carbon reduction

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  • The Nature Conservancy in Virginia prioritizes four landscape conservation programs spanning the Appalachians to the Atlantic—the Allegheny Highlands, Clinch Valley, Virginia Pinelands and Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve (VVCR)—as well as wetlands restoration work across the state and a focus on healthy oceans in the Mid-Atlantic Seascape. 🔥 The Allegheny Highlands program strives to ensure that these important mountains in Appalachia remain a natural stronghold against climate change, and that the Highlands' human and natural communities are supported, restored and enhanced. Learn more: https://nature.ly/4dwCa85 🌄 The Clinch Valley program focuses on protecting Virginia's Clinch River and promoting healthy forests and sustainable economic and recreational opportunities for Southwest Virginia communities. Learn more: https://nature.ly/3AeLu2p 🌲 The Virginia's Pinelands program works to conserve vast expanses of wetlands and rare forests in southeast Virginia that are home to centuries-old cypress swamps, the state's rarest bird—the red cockaded woodpecker—and iconic longleaf pine savannas. Learn more: https://nature.ly/3WBhAg7 🌊 The VVCR focuses on coastal resilience, land protection, migratory bird and marine habitat restoration work, as well as engaging education and community outreach programs. It serves as a model for how conservation can support humans and nature in the face of a changing climate. Learn more: https://nature.ly/4dwCbsF 🌱 The Virginia Aquatic Resources Trust Fund (VARTF) helps TNC make large-scale freshwater conservation in Virginia possible. Learn more: https://nature.ly/4dwC941 🐋 The Mid-Atlantic Seascape is a highly productive, diverse marine ecosystem and an industrialized, urban hub for commerce. We're charting a course for sustainable fisheries and a healthy ocean. Learn more: https://nature.ly/3WF7pqG Photos: 1. Danny White/TNC 2. Jack Looney 3. Robert B. Clontz 4. Peter Frank Edwards 5. Isabel Hayman/TNC 6. Jason Houston

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  • Upweller Beer Company founder Josh Chapman (and family!) recently joined TNC in Southeastern Virginia for a fun day of foraging longleaf pine needles at TNC’s Piney Grove Preserve. Together, we collected pine needles from an area of the preserve that recently underwent a prescribed burn. Upweller is collaborating with Fine Creek Brewing Company on brewing these foraged pine needles into our delicious and hoppy Piney Grove IPA, to be featured at this year’s OktoberForest Fest! We can’t wait for you to sip more of the story on September 15 at Fine Creek Brewing Company in Powhatan, VA 🍻 Join us: https://nature.ly/4dgl7qW  In the meantime, visit our website to read about Josh Chapman, owner of Upweller, and discover the story behind the creation of our longleaf pine beer: https://nature.ly/4fuetPy 📸: Danny White/TNC #OktoberForestFest2024 #ForagedFlavors

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    TNC Virginia, Upweller Beer Company and Fine Creek Brewing Company teamed up and camped out in the Alleghany Highlands earlier this month to forage sassafras leaves from TNC’s Warm Springs Mountain Preserve. Fine Creek will then brew the leaves into the delicious Allegheny Highlands Farmhouse Ale, to be featured at this year’s OktoberForest Fest! Join us on Sunday, September 15th from 12-6PM at Fine Creek in Powhatan, VA to try this unique ale and get a taste of the Central Appalachians in every sip. 🍺    Event link:  https://nature.ly/3zUgOmC    #OktoberForestFest2024   This special video was created by: Upweller Beer Co.

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