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    1You Can  Help Restore Virginia’s “Founding Forest”

    You Can Help Restore Virginia’s “Founding Forest”

    Aug 11, 2020

    FBRM Invitation to our Readers The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is now. Taking these words to heart, Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains — working with The Nature Conservancy VA – is planting 600 longleaf pines to help […]

    22019 Friend of the Mountain Award presented at Annual Member Celebration

    2019 Friend of the Mountain Award presented at Annual Member Celebration

    Dec 1, 2019

    Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains presented their annual Friend of the Mountain Award to the “SWAT Team” of the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition (LCPCC) at their annual meeting on November 24, 2019 at Bluemont Vineyard, Bluemont, Virginia. The award reflected efforts beginning […]

    3Join Us For Our Annual Member Celebration

    Join Us For Our Annual Member Celebration

    Oct 23, 2018

    Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains Annual Member Celebration and Fundraiser Join us November 15, 6:30–9pm, to honor special friends and celebrate a year of working to preserve and enhance the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tickets available online! You can also order tickets by mail, or […]

    4Honeybee Losses Reach 60 Percent

    Honeybee Losses Reach 60 Percent

    Jul 31, 2018

    Honeybee Losses Reach 60 Percent “To help bolster the honeybee population, VDACS is encouraging … border plantings of bee-friendly plants around crop fields provides needed forage, particularly in hot, dry summer months and into the fall.” https://rappnews.com/2018/07/01/honeybee-losses-reach-60-percent/

    5

    Stumptown Woods Property Protected

    Jul 12, 2018

    JK Moving, Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy Partner to Protect an Ecologically Unique and Significant Property in Loudoun Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy (LWC)and JK Moving Services, a global moving, storage, relocation, and logistics enterprise, announced that they are partnering to protect an 87 acre parcel of land in […]

    6

    Envision Loudoun Meetings Announced

    May 5, 2018

    Envision Loudoun Upcoming Open House Meetings The following open houses will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Monday, May 14, 2018, Harmony Middle School, 38174 W Colonial Highway, Hamilton Wednesday, May 16, 2018, Harper Park Middle School, 701 Potomac Station Drive, Leesburg Monday, May 21, 2018, Eagle […]

    7

    AT&T To Host Meeting On Tower

    Apr 2, 2018

    Update on AT&T Cell Phone Tower on Short Hill Mountain AT&T is hosting a legally-required community meeting at the Lovettsville Game Club on Thursday May 10th at 6:30pm.  Please consider attending the meeting to oppose the cell phone tower. AT&T Proposes Cell Tower on Short Hill […]

    8Sounds of the Blue Ridge A Success

    Sounds of the Blue Ridge A Success

    Nov 20, 2017

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