Virginia
1,940,822
Acres Protected
That’s about 1,470,320 football fields!
Land trusts have already conserved 61 million acres of private land across the nation — more than all of the national parks combined. Help us conserve another 60 million acres by the end of the decade.
Together, let’s keep Gaining Ground.
Every land trust is as unique as the community it serves.
Virginia land trusts are community-led and supported and protect lands and waters that help the entire state.
People
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815,226
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20,031
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4,108
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316
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264
Land Trust Longevity
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82 years old (1943)
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12 years old (2013)
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33 years old

Virginia's United Land Trusts
There has been a 24% increase in Virginia land protected by land trusts since 2010.
Acre by acre, land trusts are helping to conserve Virginia lands, waters and ways of life.
Disclaimer: Land trusts conserve land in many different ways and every project is unique. Category totals may change depending on how acres are reported by survey respondents to reflect the most current data and minimize double-counting. In some instances, the total may be greater than the sum of the separate categories due to organizations that provided total acres not broken down by category.
This information reflects data collected in the National Land Trust Census, the longest-running comprehensive survey of private land conservation in America. Learn more about the Census and see which land trusts participated in the 2020 National Land Trust Census.
Virginia land trusts are gaining ground.
Land trusts across the state are helping find solutions to some of Virginia's most pressing issues.
Land Trusts Working in Virginia
Land Trust Alliance member land trusts, listed below, commit to adopting Land Trust Standards and Practices as their guiding principles.

Access Fund

American Farmland Trust

Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Broad Water Innovations

Capital Region Land Conservancy

Clean Water Project

Coastal Virginia Conservancy

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.

Ever Green Team

Friends of Dragon Run

Historic Virginia Land Conservancy

Land Savers United

Land Trust of Virginia

National Park Trust

New River Conservancy

New River Land Trust

Northern Virginia Conservation Trust

Old Dominion Land Conservancy, Inc.

Open Space Institute Land Trust

Piedmont Environmental Council

Potomac Conservancy

Shenandoah Valley Conservancy

The Conservation Fund

The Humane Society Wildlife Land Trust

The Nature Conservancy

The Northern Neck Land Conservancy, Inc.

The Trust for Public Land, National Office

Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust
