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Join members of the Blue Ridge Conservation Alliance for an interactive discussion featuring excerpts from “Hometown Habitat,” a documentary that challenges traditional ideas about how we manage our properties and what we can do to promote biodiversity.

Check out this video from our friends at Piedmont Environmental Council, featuring our neighbor, Robert Duvall! https://www.pecva.org/land-conservation/1332-help-protect-virginia-s-piedmont

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains presented the 2017 “Friend of the Mountain Award” to  longtime environmental advocate W. Joseph Coleman, Jr. at their Annual Meeting, November 30, 2017 at Doukenie Winery near Hillsboro, Virginia.   At the ceremony Joe was presented with a plaque which reads: […]

Fall for Bats – Saturday November 18 Bridgewater Municipal Building Arey Assembly Hall 201 Green St., Bridgewater, VA 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. No registration required    

“Civilizations (like glaciers) come and go, but the mountain and its forest continue the course of creation’s destiny. and in this we mere humans can take part — by fitting our civilization to the mountain.” Overlook ATJ Summer 2017 “The problem of living is, at bottom, […]

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains is pleased to announce the awarding of the “Jane Pratt Blue Ridge Mountains Education Award” to two graduating High School Seniors in our 5-county project area (Loudoun, Clarke, Fauquier, and Rappahannok, in VA., and Jefferson, WV). This year’s recipients, […]