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''See also Blue Ridge Conservancy that works in western North Carolina.'' The Blue Ridge Land Conservancy (BRLC), formerly known as the Western Virginia Land Trust (WVLT), is a non-profit land trust and conservation organization headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia that seeks to preserve the wilderness and farmlands in the western portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia (not the State of West Virginia) from excessive commercial development. BRLC's service area contains ten counties: Bedford, Botetourt, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, and Roanoke. In December 2012, the Western Virginia Land Trust changed its name to the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy. ==Conservation efforts== Since 1996, BRLC has been credited with protecting more than of land. In 2009, Roanoke, Virginia donated the second of two conservation easements on the Carvins Cove Natural Reserve to BRLC and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, making the Carvins Cove Natural Reserve the largest tract of land protected with a conservation easement in Virginia.〔http://www.landtrustalliance.org/community/Regions/mid_atlantic/success-stories/wv-11000-acres〕〔http://www.virginiaoutdoorsfoundation.org/news/VOF_pub-091309_release.php〕〔http://www.governor.virginia.gov/MediaRelations/NewsReleases/viewRelease.cfm?id=1069〕 The easement was designed to protect of the viewshed from the Appalachian Trail as well as a major source of the drinking water supply for the Roanoke Valley. Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is the second-largest city park in the United States and the largest east of the Mississippi.〔(The Trust for Public Land – The 100 Largest City Parks ) Accessed 2008-10-02 〕 In August 2008, BRLC worked to preserve more than a mile of a Chesapeake Bay tributary stream and a wetland the size of 16 football fields in Botetourt County, VA.〔http://ourvalley.org/news.php?viewStory=3255〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blue Ridge Land Conservancy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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