Protecting the Old Dominion State
The rural and forested places throughout Virginia have seen some of our nation’s most pivotal moments—from Revolutionary War battles to the Civil War, through to the present.
In the Old Dominion State, the Open Space Institute directly acquired nearly 5,000 acres in western Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains — an expanse of land dotted with Civil War relics that preserves habitat for the threatened brook trout and protects the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay.
