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SUMMARY:6th Annual Active Mobility Summit
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in more safe spaces to walk\, bike or run? Do you crave better access to the great outdoors? Are you looking for other people ready to jumpstart a year of positive local action? The annual Charlottesville / Albemarle Active Mobility Summit is for you! \n\n\n\nThe annual Charlottesville / Albemarle Active Mobility Summit invites cyclists\, walkers\, runners\, and people interested in promoting active lifestyles for a Thursday evening of presentations\, followed by Friday morning work sessions and Friday afternoon field trips.  \n\n\n\nThis year’s summit will focus on the economic and social benefits communities enjoy when they are great for walking and biking residents and visitors have easy access to fresh air. Thursday will have public presentations; Friday morning will focus on structural solutions. \n\n\n\nYou don’t need to attend both sessions to benefit but it is encouraged. Both sessions will include snacks and drinks and both sessions will include plenty of fellowship and ways to get involved. The Mobility Summit is free but registration is required.  \n\n\n\nWhere: The Wool Factory (1837 Broadway Street\, Charlottesville) When: Thursday\, March 5 (5:30-9 p.m.) + Friday\, March 6 (9-12 p.m.) Friday afternoon will include field trips.  \n\n\n\n\nRegister Today!\n\n\n\n\n***The Piedmont Mobility Allianceis a coalition of more than 40 organizations\, businesses\, agencies that share a vision of a better-connected community for walking\, biking and other forms of active transportation in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.
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LOCATION:Virginia
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SUMMARY:A Night Under the Dark Sky at Maple Glen
DESCRIPTION:Maintaining dark skies free of light pollution are important for both wildlife and people. Gather with community members at Maple Glen in Madison County to learn about what we all can do personally and as a collective to protect dark skies along Shenandoah National Park. \n\n\n\nHosted by the Shenandoah National Park Trust and the Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative\, there will be hot cocoa and refreshments to accompany our presentation and walk at dusk about the wildlife that rely on dark skies. Dress to be outdoors.  \n\n\n\nWhen: Thursday\, Mar. 19 at 5-7 p.m. (Note: This date was rescheduled from Feb. 19 due to rain) Where: Maple Glen in Madison County (Register for exact details) \n\n\n\n\nRegister Today!
URL:https://www.pecva.org/event/a-night-under-the-dark-sky-at-graves-mill-farm/
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SUMMARY:Culpeper Budget Information Meeting: Understanding the County Budget
DESCRIPTION:and how to be a part of the decision-making\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn about the details of a county budget at this informational meeting hosted by the Culpeper Citizens Information Network at Culpeper United Methodist Church. Questions will be taken.
URL:https://www.pecva.org/event/culpeper-budget-information-meeting-understanding-the-county-budget/
LOCATION:Culpeper United Methodist Church\, 1233 Oaklawn Dr.\, Culpeper\, Virginia\, 22701
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SUMMARY:Fifeville Trail Work Party
DESCRIPTION:The Fifeville Community Trail is a green oasis in the center of Charlottesville. It connects neighborhoods to Tonsler Park and area residents to downtown. It is also a space of quiet and respite.The Fifeville Trail was built by the community and it continues to be a great space because the community takes care of it. The Fifeville Neighborhood Association\, The Piedmont Environmental Council\, and the Rivanna Trails Foundation invite you to help maintain and improve this wonderful space. We will spread mulch\, clip invasive vines and pick up litter. \n\n\n\nNeighborhood leaders and local trail experts will be on hand to talk about the area’s history and ongoing efforts to improve the community. \n\n\n\nTools and snacks will be provided and we will have some gloves but if you have your own\, those would be helpful. \n\n\n\nDate: Saturday\, March 21\, 2026 (Main date March 22)Time: 10:00 – 12 a.m.Location: Tonsler Park (500 Cherry Avenue\, Charlottesville) \n\n\n\nLet Peter Krebs at pkrebs@pecva.org know you’re coming!
URL:https://www.pecva.org/event/fifeville-trail-work-party/
LOCATION:Virginia
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SUMMARY:Turkey Run Community Conservation Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Northern bobwhite. Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program.\n\n\n\nLandowners have the unique opportunity to steward their land in a way that can increase wildlife habitat\, biodiversity and flood and climate resiliency. There is an even greater benefit to the environment and wildlife when properties adjacent to each other take on better management practices.  \n\n\n\nJoin Lauria McShane\, Wildlife Habitat Outreach Specialist with The Piedmont Environmental Council and the Virginia Grassland Bird Initiative for a presentation about how to make and maintain wildlife habitat across multiple properties\, and discussion about collaboration with neighbors. \n\n\n\nRegister today →
URL:https://www.pecva.org/event/turkey-run-community-conservation-meeting/
LOCATION:Mount Ida Farm\, 6903 Blenheim Road\, Charlottesville\, Virginia\, 24590
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SUMMARY:23rd Annual Bluebell Walk on Cedar Run
DESCRIPTION:“Bluebells in Morning Light” by Rod Erickson\n\n\n\nJoin The Piedmont Environmental Council’s Julian W. Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund for a walk along the banks of Cedar Run. \n\n\n\nEach spring\, a spectacular display of thousands of bluebells appear on the banks of Cedar Run at Bonny Brook Farm. To celebrate this rite of spring\, Margrete Stevens and PEC staff\, together with representatives from several partner organizations\, will highlight the restoration work the Stevens have undertaken at Bonny Brook Farm to enhance wildlife habitat. \n\n\n\nThis family-friendly event is free and open to the public but space is limited. Registration is required on Eventbrite. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOutdoor clothing and boots are recommended. Please\, no pets. Note: The round trip walk to Cedar Run will be approximately one mile in length through fields. The leisurely walk will begin promptly after opening remarks. The event will take place rain or shine! \n\n\n\nTax deductible donations are welcome and will support the Julian W. Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund for continued land and water conservation efforts in Fauquier County. If you are interested in preserving the landscape that we enjoy today\, please consider a tax deductible contribution to the Fund when you register for this event. \n\n\n\nThe event is hosted by Margrete Stevens. A big thanks to staff from The Clifton Institute\, Smithsonian’s Virginia Working Landscapes and the Fauquier Education Farm for also partnering with us on this year’s event. \n\n\n\nQuestions? Contact Montana Lanier Ruffner at mlanier@pecva.org or 540-677-0813. \n\n\n\nConservation at Bonny Brook Farm\n\n\n\nBronny Brook Farm’s ~200 acres are protected under a conservation easement held by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. Among other sustainable land management and restoration projects\, the farm participated in PEC’s Plantings for the Piedmont program in 2022. Volunteers helped plant 55 native trees and shrubs along a perennial stream\, including willow oak\, shumard oak\, pin oak\, swamp chestnut oak\, gray and silky dogwoods\, elderberry\, and serviceberry. Learn more. → \n\n\n\nPEC’s Julian W. Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund\n\n\n\nPEC’s Julian W. Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund has been successful in assisting with the protection of more than 12\,000 acres of privately-owned land in the Cedar Run watershed. It was established in 2003. The Fund is named in honor of Julian Scheer of Elmwood who\, with his wife Sue\, led many important conservation efforts in Fauquier County for four decades. Their work is today carried forward by Rick and Hilary Gerhardt\, Julian and Sue’s son-in-law and daughter. \n\n\n\nThe Fauquier Fund provides valuable outreach\, education\, and financial resources for landowners to explore land conservation options as well as ways to improve sound environmental stewardship of land and waterways. Such efforts may take the form of estate planning and the donation of conservation easements; land management supported by the Fund may include the planting of native trees and the protection of streams and ponds. \n\n\n\nIn recognizing that working farms form an important and traditional part of the way of life in Fauquier county\, the Fund collaborates with farmers and Fauquier County staff under the recently enhanced Purchase of Development Rights program to ensure that farms may be protected from future development through conservation easements. The Fund’s work in this area is especially geared towards assisting with initial expenses in the form of valuation and attorney’s fees. \n\n\n\nProtected by a Virginia Outdoors Foundation conservation easement in 2010\, Bonny Brook Farm is part of a 2\,500-acre cluster of permanently protected\, productive farms. Across Fauquier County\, almost 112\,500 acres of land are now conserved.  \n\n\n\nUnder PEC auspices\, and with PEC staff assistance\, the Fauquier Fund hosts a number of community activities throughout the year\, including not only the Bluebell Walk but also conservation workshops and fundraising events. \n\n\n\nDonations make the Fund’s conservation work possible. If you are interested in preserving the landscape that we enjoy today\, please consider a tax deductible contribution to the Fund when you register for this event.
URL:https://www.pecva.org/event/2026-bluebell-walk/
LOCATION:Bonny Brook Farm\, 8446 Old Dumfries Road\, Catlett\, Virginia\, 20119\, United States
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