Originally published Winter 2007-08. Roanoke resident Louise Kegley and her husband, WVLT Trustee George Kegley, have donated a landmark conservation easement on their 116-acre Roanoke City farm to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and the Virginia Board of Historic Resources.
The easement on the farm, situated between the Ole Monterey and Blue Hills golf courses in...
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Originally published Summer 2005. Retired State Sen. Madison Marye permanently preserved 562 acres of prime bottomland and foothills in eastern Montgomery County with a voluntary conservation agreement because “you should put your deed where your mouth is.” A longtime preservationist, Marye joined his wife, Charlotte, in recording the easement at the end of...
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Originally published Fall 2002. Ned Yost, a retired insurance agent of Cleveland, Ohio, and his wife, Janet Yost, are recording a conservation easement to preserve their 289-acre McDonald’s Mill tract in the Catawba Valley at the eastern edge of Montgomery County.
Yost said their purpose is “to promote and preserve the multiuse character of...
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Originally published Fall 2002. The first easement to permanently preserve the top of Read Mountain has been signed by Dr. A. A. “Al” Durham, a Roanoke orthopedic surgeon. The Western Virginia Land Trust will hold the easement on 89 acres on the upper eastern slope overlooking downtown Roanoke.
Durham, owner of the wooded land since...
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Originally published Fall 2001. State and Wythe County officials and an appreciative crowd of environmentalists celebrated the dedication of the Big Survey Wildlife Management Area, an 8,300-acre tract of mountain land south of Wytheville, on Oct. 18.
The State Department of Game and Inland Fisheries purchased the property for $3 million from the Shaffer and...
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Originally published Fall 2001. A 25.5-acre tract of land atop Cahas Mountain, near Boones Mill in Franklin County, was protected under a conservation easement hours before an August auction, thanks to last-minute work by Janet Scheid, Stephen Lemon and Jim and Jill Woltz, working as a Western Virginia Land Trust team.
John and Jeanne...
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Originally published Fall 2001. The Western Virginia Land Trust ends 2001 with a new director, a new office and a challenge to enter its sixth year with a mandate to protect more land.
Roger Holnback, our new director, comes from the post of southern regional administrator and formerly regional trust coordinator for the Appalachian Trail...
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