Conservation Celebration & Auction

Conservation Celebration & Auction Sunday, October 2 from 4-7:00 PM at Cloverlea Farm House at the Claytor Nature Center Bedford, VA

Join us for the 2022 Conservation Celebration and Auction, where we honor the community's conservation heroes and raise funds to continue our mission! This year we are joining with our sister organization at Central Virginia Land Conservancy! Keep up to date by following our FB page and checking out our website at partyforland.org

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Join us for the 2020 Conservation Celebration and Auction, where we honor the community's conservation heroes and raise funds to continue our mission! Enjoy this year's event from the comfort of your own home as we do our first virtual Celebration.

This year’s Vic Thomas Award recipient is the late Gov. Gerald Baliles and wife Robin. As you may know, Gov. Baliles was a native of southwest Virginia, hailing from the town of Stuart in Patrick County, and the last governor from the western half of the state. He was a champion of Virginia’s environment while in office. As governor, he worked with the General Assembly to create Virginia’s Natural Resources Secretariat.

As described in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last October by former Secretaries of Natural Resources, Democrat John W. Daniel II, and Lynchburg native and Republican L. Preston Bryant, Jr.,

“In the new secretariat, Baliles established a powerful political office that signaled to all Virginians that water and air quality mattered, that the Chesapeake Bay deserved the attention of government, that Virginia’s state parks warranted emphasis and expansion, and that our marine resources could be a calling card for recreation and economic expansion. Most importantly, Baliles signaled that both economic development and natural resources protection benefit when harmonized.”