Land Conservation
Orange is a leader in private land conservation with over 29,000 acres protected, including more than one third of the land in the Madison Barbour Rural Historic District.
February 1, 2010. PEC Press Release.
February 3, 2009. PEC Press Release.
This map shows the over 27,000 acres of privately protected land in Orange County as well as publicly protected lands.
3,072 acres were conserved in 2007, bringing the grand total to over 25,000 acres of privately conserved land.
700 acres to be conserved at Montpelier will protect a freedman's farm and Civil War encampments, buffer an old-growth forest and assure public access.
Seven hundred and nineteen acres are newly protected at James Madison's Montpelier, through conservation easements purchased by PEC.
