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Virginia Green Infrastructure Scoping Study

Advancing Strategic Conservation in the Commonwealth of Virginia: Using a Green Infrastructure Approach to Conserving and Managing the Commonwealth's Natural Areas, Working Landscapes, Open Spaces, and Other Critical Resources:
By Mark Benedict, Will Allen, and Ed McMahon
The Conservation Fund
August 2004

In the summer of 2002, The Conservation Fund received funding from the Virginia Department of Forestry’s Urban and Community Forestry Assistance Program to investigate the institutional capacity, support, and structure for a green infrastructure network. In doing so, the Fund looked at the current institutional capacity, support, and structure within the state government, as well as the programs and resources available from other public and private entities working statewide and regionally in Virginia. The product of this work is a set of recommendations for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia Department of Forestry (DOF), and other state agencies on how best to establish a programmatic framework for strategic conservation in the state.

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