News & Press Releases
Land Conservancy Wins $20k Grant from Virginia Environmental Endowment for Community Conservation
Warsaw, VA – The Virginia Environmental Endowment (VEE) awarded a $20,000 grant to Northern Neck Land Conservancy for an initiative it calls Promoting Conservation and Inspiring a Regional Community of Land Protectors. The grant support will allow the Land Conservancy...
Rechristened to Honor Helen and Tayloe Murphy, and Given to Cessie and Bill Howell
Rechristened to Honor Helen and Tayloe Murphy, and Given to Cessie and Bill Howell WARSAW, VA – October 1, 2024: The Northern Neck Land Conservancy’s presented the Helen and Tayloe Murphy Conservation Champion award at its sold-out Boots and Barbecue event on...
NNLC Welcomes New Hire, Alicen Hackney, Community Engagement Officer
Rappahannock Record Thursday, July 18, 2024 "The Northern Neck Land Conservancy (NNLC) recently hired Alicen Hackney to fill its new community engagement officer position. Hackney brings community relationship-building, social media marketing and journalism skills to...
Northern Neck Land Conservancy Celebrates Two Decades of Work to Protect Rural Heritage
Northern Neck Land Conservancy Celebrates Two Decades of Work to Protect Rural Heritage Warsaw, VA1/8/2024By Rob Hedelt, retired Free Lance-Star reporter and Northern Neck Land Conservancy board member. The Power of Place: Celebrating Two Decades of Work to...
Laurie Schlemm Is Presented Conservation Champion Award
Laurie Schlemm is presented Conservation Champion Award From the Rappahannock RecordOctober 29, 2023 LOTTSBURG—Northern Neck Land Conservancy’s annual Boots and Barbecue event recently was held at Mount Zion Farm in Lottsburg. One of several highlights was the...
Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award
The Northern Neck Land Conservancy received the 2021 Elizabeth Cabell Dugdale Award for Meritorious Achievement in Conservation from the Garden Club of Virginia (GCV) on Wednesday, October 20. Conservancy President, Capt. Stuart Ashton, Jr., USN Ret. accepted the...
Just in Time for Earth Day: New Partnership Conserves Special Land in Northumberland
Lancaster, Va. — To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the Northern Neck Land Conservancy and The Nature Conservancy have announced their new partnership to protect an ecologically-significant property in Virginia’s Northern Neck. Last month, the Northern...
Mt. Zion Farm Conserved
Since 2004, the Northern Neck Land Conservancy has partnered with conservation-minded landowners to place over 5,000 acres of Northern Virginia in conservation easements. Their conservation work is driven by a desire to preserve the natural and cultural heritage of...
NN Land Conservancy Forum Set for Richmond County
This property on Totuskey Creek in Richmond County was recently conserved by the owner in partnership with the Northern Neck Land Conservancy. PRESS RELEASE February 20, 2020 Released 2/5/20 The Northern Neck Land Conservancy will hold an informational forum on...
Cowart Protects Oysters by Conserving Land
LOTTSBURG—As one of the largest oyster planters on the East Coast, Lake Cowart’s business is dependent on the quality of the water in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. There’s not much the Northumberland County native can do about rainfall which often determines if the...
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