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المشاريع الممولة من صندوق VLCF

تعتبر مزارع وغابات فيرجينيا العاملة وساحات المعارك وغيرها من المواقع التاريخية والمناطق الطبيعية والمتنزهات والأنهار في فرجينيا ذات أهمية بالغة لاقتصادها وثقافتها وجودة الحياة فيها. في 1999 ، أنشأ المجلس والحاكم مؤسسة فيرجينيا للحفاظ على الأراضي (VLCF) لتمويل حماية هذه الموارد. تُظهر الخريطة التفاعلية أدناه المشاريع الممولة من صندوق VLCF منذ 2000.

الاسم:	Cowbane Prairie NAP Addition (withdrawn)
الفئة:	الحفاظ على المناطق الطبيعية
جولة المنح:	السنة المالية17
الفدادين:	84 . 03
المنطقة:	مقاطعة أوغوستا
وكالة الإدارة:
المالك:
ConserveVirginia:	لا شيء
المبلغ الممنوح:	$877,050.00
مقدم الطلب:	إدارة الحفاظ على البيئة والترفيه في فيرجينيا
خط العرض:	38 . 01705717
Longitude:	-79.057103
الوصف:	DCR's Natural Heritage Program proposed to acquire in fee approximately 84 acres along the South River and adjacent to Cowbane Prairie Natural Area Preserve in Augusta County. The subject property is within a mapped Conservation Site, which has the highest possible biodiversity ranking of B1. This high ranking is due to the high number of rare species and significant natural communities found there, as well as the high viability and the extreme rarity of some of those elements. Fifteen rare plants and five globally rare communities are found within the preserve and most of these populations require periodic burning to remain healthy. Protecting the property will serve as a smoke buffer for the prescribed burning necessary on the adjacent preserve, as well as prevent further degradation of water quality to the South River by securing the riparian zone along more than 4,100 feet of the river and tributary streams. This project was awarded a grant of $877,050, but alternative funding was attained and the VLCF grant was withdrawn.