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9Friendship and Fellowship Reign at Annual Meeting

Friendship and Fellowship Reign at Annual Meeting

Oct 28, 2024

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains held our annual meeting on October 12. George Ohrstrom, the winner of our 2023 Friend of the Mountain award, generously hosted the event at his farm – Camden near Boyce Virginia.

10Loudoun Board Rejects PDR Pilot

Loudoun Board Rejects PDR Pilot

Oct 28, 2024

On October 16, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted to remove a proposed Purchase Development Rights (PDR) pilot project from the work program for the Department of Planning and Zoning. The motion to remove the pilot was introduced by Supervisor Letourneau (Dulles) and […]

11President Peter Weeks’ State of the Mountain Address

President Peter Weeks’ State of the Mountain Address

Oct 27, 2024

12People You Should Know: Ryan Reed

People You Should Know: Ryan Reed

Oct 26, 2024

Ryan Reed: Deputy Zoning Administrator, Loudoun County Department of Planning and Zoning

13PEC’s Gem Bingol to Be Honored As Friend of the Mountain

PEC’s Gem Bingol to Be Honored As Friend of the Mountain

Oct 3, 2024

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains Celebration Set for Oct. 12 Gem Bingol, a Piedmont Environmental Council field representative in Loudoun County for more than 25 years, will receive the Friend of the Mountain honor from the Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains at the group’s […]

14Join Us For the Friends Annual Meeting October 12

Join Us For the Friends Annual Meeting October 12

Sep 9, 2024

Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains will host our annual meeting on Saturday, October 12, from 4–7 pm. Please make your calendar now to join us for what promises to be an entertaining and unique afternoon. For the first time, Friends will host our annual […]

15You 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 […]

162019 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 […]

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