ANNUAL REPORT · 2020

Dear Friends,

I f we’ve learned one thing this past year, it's that being
able to participate is a blessing and a privilege. Each
individual action, whether the planting of a native
plant garden, the donation of a conservation easement, or
the act of attending a local meeting, is necessary for good
while harvesting more than 25,000 pounds of fruits and
vegetables for donation to Loudoun Hunger Relief.

The pandemic did not stop conservation either, as 47

landowners completed easements to protect 5,287 acres in
things to happen—for the Piedmont and for all of us. 2020. Our nine-county service region now has more than
426,000 acres of permanently conserved private land, an
With your support and participation, PEC has area more than twice the size of Shenandoah National Park
expanded the sphere of individuals and groups and accounting for nearly 20 percent of the region’s entire
working to protect and promote the Piedmont’s land area.
unique communities and resources. Despite the
extraordinary circumstances we all experienced Throughout the pandemic, more and more people have
in 2020, Piedmont residents stepped up and sought access to nature, emphasizing the vitality of our
achieved great things for our communities and for trails, parks and open spaces to everyone. PEC has been
conservation. a leader in advocating that parks and trails be included
in local and state plans and budgets. We’ve also expanded
In response to hunger needs arising from the public access at our own properties at Roundabout
pandemic, local donors and foundations gave Meadows and the Piedmont Memorial Overlook.
more than $200,000 for our Farm to Food Bank
initiative, allowing us to provide milk and meat to Looking forward, we will continue to build momentum
24 food pantries across the Piedmont. More than toward the long-term goal of sustainable communi-
460 people volunteered at our Community Farm at ties in a conserved large landscape. We will protect
Roundabout Meadows, observing social distancing important farmland by expanding partnerships with the
GETTING OUTDOORS AND
ENJOYING NATURE ON A WALK IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY.
Photo by Chris Hawk

COVER: ROBINSON RIVER IN MADISON COUNTY LOOKING

WEST TOWARD THE BLUE RIDGE. Photo by Hugh Kenny

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federal Agricultural Land Easements program and
MAPS OF THE PIEDMONT 2
other new funding sources. We will assist efforts to
update Piedmont historic districts to recognize the land conservation 4
contributions of African-American and Virginia
strong rural economies 6
Indian communities that were overlooked in previ-
ous research. We will increase production at the better communities 8
Community Farm by 10,000 pounds and improve the history and beauty 10
local food system. We will collaborate to create sev-
eral new public access areas along the Rappahannock CONNECTIVITY AND
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ACCESS TO NATURE
River, expand trail connections and acquire new public
access sites across our service region. With your con- A NECESSARY PIVOT
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tinued support and participation, we can accomplish TO DIGITAL

all this and more in 2021. clean water 14

We have a long way to go, and so much great work to do habitat restoration 16
together. Thank you for what you do for the Piedmont’s energy, transportation,
communities and environment. 18
and climate

THE PIEDMONT
Sincerely, BLACK BEAR TAKING A NAP. WINNER OF THE NATIVE PLANTS AND
FOUNDATION  20
WILDLIFE CATEGORY IN PEC’S 2020 ANNUAL PHOTO CONTEST.
Photo by Matt Huntley

CONTRIBUTIONS 21
Legacy Gifts 26
Chris Miller Jean Perin George L. Ohrstrom, II
President Co-Chair, Board of Directors Co-Chair, Board of Directors IN MEMORY 30

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AND STAFF
31

STATEMENTS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION
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GREENE ORANGE
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• 30,000 gallons of milk Orange

• 11,000+ pounds of local beef and pork Staunton

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VOLUNTARY ACTION  • OUTSTANDING SUCCESS  • SAVING PLACES PEOPLE LOVE

ENJOYING THE VIEW OF PROTECTED LAND AFTER A

HIKE TO PEC’S PIEDMONT MEMORIAL OVERLOOK IN PARIS, VA
Photo by Marco Sánchez

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M Mountain Grove in southern
Albemarle County stands
as one of the country’s
earliest examples of classic Palladian
architecture. Similar to Jefferson’s first
me, and I thought it should be preserved
from the moment I saw it. We quickly
realized what a valuable, historic artifact
this home is, and that made us think
about putting it under easement,” said
way down to Albemarle distinctly darker
than the rest of the area and to our east.
That’s when I became very interested in
land conservation,” Peter said.
PETER STOUDT AND ALICE HANDY AT THEIR
designs for Monticello, the 1804 house Peter, an avid history buff and passionate Last year, Peter and Alice worked FOXINGTON FARM. Photo by Peter Krebs

is virtually unaltered from its original historian. with PEC to develop the easement
construction, with no indoor plumbing, on Mountain Grove, which they then more than 1,000 acres in Albemarle
its interior woodwork still intact and Peter and Alice acquired Mountain donated to the Albemarle Conservation County. In 2019, they purchased and
original painted marbleizing still visible. Grove at auction in 2015, the same year Easement Authority. “Ultimately, we’d placed under easement over 800 acres
Thanks to Peter Stoudt and Alice Handy, that Peter joined the PEC Board of like to restore the house so people can they call Foxington, in Free Union. The
this historic home and its surrounding Directors. “Being on the board of PEC for enjoy it. It needs substantial work, but outcome for both these properties could
200-acre landscape will be protected six years was a real learning experience structurally it’s sound and in amaz- have been very different. We are grateful
into the future and may one day open to for me. [PEC President] Chris Miller ing condition for its age,” Alice said. “It to Peter and Alice, and others like them,
the public. showed us a satellite image of Virginia would be a gem to the community.” who are willing to preserve and restore
at night showing PEC’s nine-county these precious lands and buildings in
“I bought it because the place intrigued corridor from western Loudoun all the Peter and Alice have now conserved Virginia and the Piedmont.

2020 Highlights
5,287 Acres Protected in 2020
` PEC received the 2020 Governor’s Environmental Excellence Gold Medal Award for our conservation, stewardship, restoration
and public engagement work at Gilberts Corner. At one time marketed as development parcels with vast commercial and residential Acres protected Total Acres*
in 2020* protected by
potential, the 340-acre conservation area owned by PEC and NOVA Parks at Gilberts Corner now provides opportunity for residents County
by Conservation
Easements
Conservation
Easements
to enjoy trails and open space and help grow fruits and
vegetables for Loudoun Hunger Relief. Albemarle 2,028 108,869

Clarke 23 26,481
` Thanks to a grant from The Volgenau Foundation, PEC is
facilitating easements on several major working farms in Culpeper 0 20,406
the upper Rappahannock watershed. The grant provided
Fauquier 800 109,487
matching funds for more than $2.2 million in federal and
state grants to conserve farmland in Madison and Orange Greene 75 10,648
counties.
Loudoun 2,159 62,684

` As part of PEC’s Town to Trail Initiative, we completed Madison 140 16,115

the purchase of a 0.85-acre residential lot in the Town of
Orange 0 38,554
Gordonsville. This was the final property needed to create
a 10-acre open space park network anchored by Firemen’s Rappahannock 62 33,413
Fairgrounds and Verling Park. A grant from the Manning
PEC Region 5,287 426,657
Family Foundation made this key land acquisition possible.
PROPERTIES THAT ARE PART OF THE TOWN TO TRAIL INITIATIVE IN GORDONSVILLE. * Totals do not sum due to rounding

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THRIVING FARMS  • LOCAL FOOD  • INNOVATION  • HEALTHY, WORKING LAND

PEC COMMUNITY FARM AT ROUNDABOUT MEADOWS

VOLUNTEER JAIDEN HELPS HARVEST PEPPERS.
Photo by Marco Sánchez

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 strong rural economies

Farm to Food Pantry initiative

E conomic impacts of the pandemic led to a
tripling of demand on Piedmont food pantries.
Local farmers also felt the impacts. The
shutdown of schools and school nutrition programs,
for example, severely disrupted dairy farmers’
Since March 2020, with the help of
partners and supporters, PEC has provided
25,000 pounds of vegetables, 30,000 gallons
of milk, and more than 11,000 pounds
operations and sales.
of local beef and pork to food-insecure
residents in our nine-county region of
PEC saw an opportunity to help make new connec- Virginia’s northern Piedmont.
tions. Long-time conservation partner, Ken Smith, a
fourth-generation dairy farmer at Cool Lawn Farm food pantries throughout the Piedmont. In total, we’ve
in Remington, asked the Maryland & Virginia Milk purchased more than 30,000 gallons of fresh milk and
Producers Cooperative Association (MDVA Milk) donated it to approximately 20,000 families in need, FIRST MILK DELIVERY FROM MAOLA DAIRY TO LOCAL FOOD BANKS.

to adjust some of its processing, delivery and staff- with 24 food pantry partners. The initiative has also
Photo by Marco Sánchez

ing operations to make the shift from schools to food supported 17 local dairy farms that are members of Loudoun, Fauquier and Rappahannock counties.
pantries. Meanwhile, we reached out to food pantries MDVA Milk.
from Loudoun down to Charlottesville to identify their Meanwhile, at PEC’s Community Farm at
needs for fresh milk. In the summer, we launched a similar beef initiative, Roundabout Meadows in Loudoun County, we
donating more than 1,000 pounds of ground beef from accelerated our plans to expand food production
With generous donations from the PATH Foundation Lakota Ranch and Locust Dale Cattle Company in in response to community needs. We tripled the
and individuals, we were able to start up a milk initia- Culpeper to four food pantries. Then during the fall, farm’s production area, and thanks to the new
tive. On May 21, MDVA Milk delivered the first 140 Karen Way, owner of Ovoka Farm in Paris, joined the Phyllis Mills Wyeth Greenhouse, were able to start
gallons of milk to Fauquier Community Food Bank effort with a commitment to donate 10,000 pounds our growing season earlier and do more successive
and 60 gallons to Rappahannock Food Pantry. Media of ground beef and pork. By the end of the year, our plantings. All told, we produced more than 25,000
coverage generated waves of additional philanthropic Farm to Food Bank initiative had donated more than pounds of fruits and vegetables, all of which were
support that opened the doors to get milk to even more 11,000 pounds of ground meat to pantries in Culpeper, donated to Loudoun Hunger Relief.

2020 Highlights
` In the spring, PEC took ownership of the Gilberts Corner ` In 2020, PEC collaborated with Virginia
Farmers Market and surrounding property. We launched a Cooperative Extension to revamp our
partnership with the Loudoun Valley HomeGrown Markets Buy Fresh Buy Local online presence.
Cooperative, which began managing the market on a We worked with software partners at
weekly basis. The cooperative is also working to add a MarketMaker™ to provide a searchable
selection of local producers to enhance what was already interactive map that consumers can use to
a popular destination. find local farms and food near them, as an
enhancement to our BuyLocalVirginia.org
PEC AND LOUDOUN VALLEY HOMEGROWN MARKETS COOPERATIVE and BuyLocalPiedmont.org websites.
STAFF AT THE GILBERTS CORNER FARMERS MARKET.
Photo by Marco Sánchez

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CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT  • GREAT PLACES TO LIVE  • MANAGING TRAFFIC AND TAXES

DOWNTOWN CULPEPER AT SUNSET.

Photo by Hugh Kenny

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Turning a page on involuntary land loss

I n the years between 1920 and
2017, the number of Black-owned
farms in the U.S. dropped from
more than 900,000 to 45,508. Their
acreage shrank from almost 19 million
populations that historically lack
access to estate planning resources.

Heirs’ property—land that has been

passed down informally from gen-
developers who take advantage of the
financial and legal hardships that often
fall upon heirs’ property owners.

In 2020, Virginia proudly became the

The unanimous passage of the Heirs’
Property Act is the culmination of
more than a year’s work by the Black
Family Land Trust, which led a broad
coalition of Virginia’s United Land
to just 2.5 million. Much of this land eration to generation, usually from 16th state to pass the Uniform Partition Trusts, including PEC, and others.
loss has been involuntary, stemming landowners who died without a will— of Heirs’ Property Act. The law pre- PEC assisted in discussions with the
from our country’s broken way of deal- is often rural land first acquired by serves the right of a co-tenant to sell Virginia Bar Association and Uniform
ing with land that’s informally passed African Americans after the Civil War. his or her interest in inherited real Law Commission and played a key role
down without a will, common among Given the number of years that have estate, while ensuring that the other in advocating for the bill prior to and
since passed, heirs can number into the co-tenants will have the necessary due during the 2020 General Assembly.
hundreds. A disastrous legal construct process. Co-owning family members
called a “partition action” allows any now have the first option to buy out Now we are supporting efforts to ensure
one of these co-tenants to force the those who want to sell, and judges must that families, Realtors, attorneys, conser-
sale of the entire property, against the consider cultural, sentimental and vation groups and other practitioners
wishes, and sometimes even without historical significance of a property, as are aware of the law and how they can
the knowledge, of the others. Such well as livelihood and consequences of apply it. In November, we co-sponsored
partition actions are often initiated by eviction, before ruling to sell it. If the a webinar on the Heirs’ Property Act.
property is to be sold, it must be sold More than 120 people attended the
BASKETBALL LEGEND RALPH SAMPSON SHARES HIS on the open market to ensure families webinar, “Keeping Land in the Family.”
FAMILY’S STORY DURING THE CEREMONIAL SIGNING
OF THE HEIRS’ PROPERTY ACT. Photo by Marco Sánchez receive a fair sale price. Learn more at pecva.org/heirs.

2020 Highlights
` In 2020, PEC staff worked day in ` PEC is helping local governments ` PEC supported Fauquier Habitat
and day out to respond to local and communities throughout for Humanity by designing a
land use concerns and to pursue the Piedmont develop clear green landscape for a new
planning for smarter growth and consistent policies and home on Haiti Street in
and stronger communities. We regulations for utility-scale Warrenton. In September, PEC’s
attended planning commission solar facilities that provide Dan Holmes led a volunteer
meetings, board of supervisors clean renewable energy while event that put 217 native plants
meetings, regional planning preserving the Piedmont’s into the ground, creating a low-
exercises, and the General natural, agricultural, historic and maintenance landscape that
Assembly, both in person and via scenic resources. meets EarthCraft standards.
Zoom, to participate and help
residents weigh in effectively.

HAITI STREET PLANTING IN WARRENTON.

Photo by Matt Coyle

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 history and beauty
SENSE OF PLACE  • SCENIC VIEWS  • BATTLEFIELDS  • HISTORIC DISTRICTS

LEFT TO RIGHT: MEMBERS OF THE TINGLER FAMILY, HOWARD LAMBERT - PRESIDENT OF THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION,
REV EUGENE FRENCH TRIPLETT JR - VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION, REVEREND DOUGLAS T. GREENE
OF EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, ADAM GILLENWATER - PEC, KAT IMHOFF - PEC. Photo by Bri West

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 history and beauty

Creating a digital record

H istorians and family mem-
bers have long sought to set
the record straight about the
mountain communities and cultures
that once thrived in the Blue Ridge
related to Virginia’s condemnation
of private lands in Rappahannock
County for the creation of Shenandoah
National Park.
The new database now
makes the digitized
records available to
all, even in a time of
pandemic-based social
Mountains of Virginia. The establish- Previously, only limited records of distancing, and enables
ment of Shenandoah National Park in these properties were publicly avail- families to uncover the
the 1930s created an extraordinary nat- able, while the basement of the clerk’s legacy and sacrifices
ural setting for Americans and visitors office in Rappahannock County held made by their ancestors.
from around the world, but it was not boxes of uncategorized condemnation The online database
without costs. Thousands of residents cases, appraisals, surveys and other is hosted by JMU and
were displaced and their communities detailed information about individual accessible from the
destroyed to make way for the park. properties. Following similar work by PEC webpage on the
JMU in Rockingham County and with project: pecva.org/
For years, PEC has been working to the support of Rappahannock County snp-digital-records.
J. BERNARD AND RUBY BOLEN AND FAMILY IN FRONT OF THEIR RAPPAHANNOCK
COUNTY HOME IN THE 1890S. Photo courtesy Rappahannock Historical Society
recognize and honor these families Clerk of the Circuit Court Margaret
and their history. This year, we took Ralph, in 2019 PEC hired former The now-completed Rappahannock Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham and
another important step toward telling a Rappahannock County Administrator County project advances an overall Warren—from which lands were taken
full history. In partnership with James Debbie Keyser to digitize more than goal of making accessible all related to create the park. PEC is now continu-
Madison University (JMU), PEC digi- 6,000 documents related to land con- records within all eight counties— ing the digitization project in Madison
tized thousands of legal documents demnation in Rappahannock County. Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Madison, County.

2020 Highlights
` In November, VDOT contractors placed the rehabilitated ` In December, PEC was proud to join with The Freedom
Waterloo Bridge back onto its stone abutments. This Foundation, Reverend Douglas T. Greene of Ebenezer
rehabilitation culminates a seven-year campaign led by PEC to Baptist Church, and members of the Tingler family, at the
convince VDOT to rehabilitate this historic metal truss bridge groundbreaking for a new memorial site in Culpeper County.
rather than replace it with a concrete bridge. The rehabilitation Once complete, the site will honor the contribution of United
was completed in February 2021, when the bridge reopened to States Colored Troops (USCTs) during the Civil War, as well as the
traffic for the first time since 2014. history of nearby Maddens Tavern and Ebenezer Baptist Church.

` The Fairfield Foundation, PEC’s consultant for the Rapidan River– ` PEC supported community leaders in St. Louis, a historic African
Clark Mountain Rural Historic District, continued its survey work American community in Loudoun, in opposing a proposed
through 2020. In December, we held an outdoor community development that would cover wetlands and place added
meeting in Little Petersburg, a historic African American stresses on their water supply. We successfully petitioned the
community founded in 1867 along the Rapidan River. We expect state Department of Historic Resources to add the affected area
CONTRACTORS FLY THE RESTORED METAL TRUSS WATERLOO
BRIDGE BACK ONTO ITS STONE ABUTMENTS.
survey work to continue through 2021, as we get closer to to the St. Louis Historic District and requested a National Historic
Photo by Hugh Kenny completing the National Register nomination. Preservation Act Section 106 review of the development proposal.

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 Connectivity and
Access to Nature
A s the onset of Covid-19 social-distancing coincided with beautiful spring weather,
many Piedmont residents turned to natural areas, parks, trails and even rural
roads, enjoying what we all know to be certain: these places sustain us, provide
respite and serve as our oasis.

PEC was at the forefront in advocating for expanded investments in parks, trails, and
pedestrian and bicycle connections. In May, PEC President Chris Miller published a widely
cited call to action in the Virginia Mercury for local and state governments to increase
funding for park and trail connections and to incorporate public access to open space in
their land use plans. Meanwhile, PEC worked locally to help provide residents with new
public access opportunities, including the
Gilberts Corner following efforts. WOMAN RUNNING ON A TRAIL IN LOUDOUN COUNTY. Photo by Will Parson, Chesapeake Bay Program
Market
Gilberts Corner
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Corner 50
Region al Park
• PEC opened the Old Carolina Road Trail • PEC donated $3,000 for right-of-way acquisition to help make
near our Roundabout Meadows property in possible an extension of the Warrenton Branch Greenway Trail
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Community the spring. Once a Native American trail and connecting downtown Warrenton with the Piedmont countryside.
Farm
later also used by early colonists as a north-
• PEC and partners
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south route through Loudoun County and
Pasture / Habitat New Mount Zion
beyond, the Old Carolina roadbed serves as successfully championed
Trail
Restoration
the backbone for the half-mile trail, which the City of Charlottesville
Baptist Church
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nc

creates public access to the scenic, historic, to start a pilot program

Bra
Ho w sers

agricultural and natural resources of Gilberts to partially close streets

PEC's Roundabout Corner. PEC partnered to create the trail with to make social distancing
Meadows Property 0 500 1,000
Feet
NOVA Parks, Fauquier and Loudoun Garden easier for cyclists and
Club and the Mount Zion Cemetery of Aldie. pedestrians. Charlottesville
launched the program
• Also in Loudoun, PEC is a member of the county-appointed Linear Parks and Trails in October, expanding
committee working to develop a county-wide trail system. PEC also leads the Emerald pedestrian access on
Ribbons Committee, which is tracking development applications and potential land Belmont Bridge. We hope
acquisition projects to ensure that opportunities are not missed to build key segments of the this successful pilot program CHARLOTTESVILLE PILOTS SAFE STREETS PROGRAM.
trail network. will be expanded in 2021. Photo by Peter Krebs

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A Necessary Pivot to Digital

T his year was certainly unlike any other and required us to shift almost all of our education and outreach to online
programs. While a few PEC events this spring and summer were canceled due to Covid-19, we worked hard to
create digital alternatives and enhance engagement opportunities.

PEC Summer Fellowship Videos, story maps and

We reshaped our seven-week Summer Fellowship
web-based projects
curriculum for online learning, finding new ways to Our communications team and field staff produced
connect the 2020 Fellows with the Piedmont and several educational videos and interactive story
provide an immersion course in conservation. PEC maps about ongoing projects. One neat outcome was
used online story maps, videos, and role-playing the public art bike ride in Charlottesville.
exercises to expose 11 college-age students to the
work of a conservation organization. The result
was a successful 2020 Fellowship, culminating in
some of the highest-quality student projects in the
program’s 14-year history and creating new tools
to teach students about conservation in their own Virtual House Party
communities.
A huge thank you to all the community members
who made PEC’s Virtual House Party & Auction an
unqualified success. More than 250 people regis-
tered to bid on our 30 auction items and participate
in the paddle raise. The online event raised critical
funds to support work that conserves land, strength-
ens rural economies, and increases accessibility to
local food. MOBILE-FRIENDLY SELF-GUIDED OPTION FOR OUR PUBLIC ART BIKE RIDE
IN CHARLOTTESVILLE. Photo by Peter Krebs

Webinars and online events

More than 700 individuals attended our 22 webinars
on topics ranging from pedestrian-friendly streets to
green infrastructure to land conservation options.

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 clean water
SAFE DRINKING SOURCES  • GOOD HEALTH  • PLACES TO SWIM AND FISH

HUGHES RIVER.
Photo by Hugh Kenny

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 clean water

Fronting the costs for

agricultural water quality
E ight generations of cattle farm-
ing had taken its toll on the
streams at Dean and Carina
Elgin’s Mountain Hollow Farm in
northern Fauquier County. Historically,
the more than $120,000 upfront cost,
and the projects were put on hold.

PEC was able to offer the Elgins a

short-term, zero-interest loan through
“all the cattle had access to the creek. our James M. Rowley Goose Creek
That was our watering system. And Conservation Fund. This fund is
that was the norm in that day,” Dean one of 11 similar conservation funds
Elgin says. By 2015, the Elgins wanted that PEC manages and that support DEAN AND CARINA ELGIN. Photo by Hugh Kenny

to repair the streambank erosion and on-the-ground conservation and

reduce the water pollution at their With the loan, the Elgins fenced out the Goose Creek watershed.
habitat restoration projects in spe-
property. But while they qualified for more than 4,100 feet of streams in the
cific geographic areas within PEC’s If it weren’t for PEC’s short-term loan
state and federal cost-share funding Hungry Run watershed and installed
nine-county region. A grant from a new well and livestock watering sys- program, Carina says, “everything
for fencing, gates, hardened stream
crossings, water pumps and water the Chesapeake Bay Land and Water tem. They repaid the loan when they would have deteriorated. We couldn’t
troughs for livestock, those cost-share Initiative, a project of the Chesapeake received their cost-share reimburse- have afforded it, otherwise, when all
programs only reimburse landowners Bay Funders Network and Land ment. PEC is now using the revolving the fences eventually fell down. Dean
after a project is completed. Like many Trust Alliance, helped PEC create the loan funds to help other landowners would’ve had to give up the cows and
landowners, the Elgins couldn’t afford revolving loan program. expedite water quality improvements in farming. This lets us start anew.”

2020 Highlights
` After successfully piloting our revolving loan program ` PEC’s Krebser Fund for Rappahannock County Conservation is col-
with the Elgins, PEC has expanded the program to laborating with the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District to
southern Fauquier in collaboration with the Julian help agricultural landowners expedite livestock exclusion fencing
Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund. In 2020 and other water quality improvements. A $50,000 Krebser Fund
we completed a loan project with a farmer to install grant helps reimburse landowners for remaining costs of approved
livestock exclusion fencing along Sumerduck Run. Agricultural Best Management Practices. The grant has funded
more than 20 new projects, including 17+ miles of stream fencing.
` Through the Headwater Stream Initiative, PEC
and Friends of the Rappahannock deployed staff ` More than 23 miles of streams were protected by conservation
and volunteers to reforest 44.5 acres with 11,920 easements in 2020, bringing the total number of stream-miles
trees along 2,615 linear feet of Rappahannock protected by easements to 1,766. In addition, 123 acres of wetlands
River headwater streams. These reforested 800 TREES PLANTED! PEC JOINED FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK,
were protected, bringing the total to 10,431 acres. All of these pro-
riparian buffers help protect our clean streams VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND VOLUNTEERS TO PLANT TREES tected resources contribute to the restoration of the Chesapeake
THAT WILL PROTECT WATER QUALITY AND IMPROVE HABITAT ALONG
and the quality of our drinking water and restore Bay, since water flowing through the Piedmont eventually enters
MOUNTAIN RUN AT OLD HOUSE VINEYARDS IN CULPEPER.
the Chesapeake Bay. Photo by Bri West the Bay.

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 habitat restoration
WILDLIFE CORRIDORS  • BIODIVERSITY  • POLLINATORS  • NATIVE PLANTS

BEE AT PEC’S LARSON NATIVE PLANT GARDEN IN WARRENTON, VA.

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 habitat restoration

Brook trout restoration and successful outcomes

D ams and other barriers like culverts can
disrupt natural stream flow and discon-
nect fish and wildlife habitat. That’s why
we’ve been working hard, along with partners, to
remove and replace several road-stream cross-
state roads with fish-friendly structures.

In fall 2020, as part of a monitoring effort with

Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources fish
biologists, we were thrilled to discover these
ings with fish-friendly crossings that reconnect efforts to restore fish habitat are working. At
habitat for brook trout and other native fish in Whiteoak Canyon over Cedar Run, we found
Rappahannock River headwater streams. a trout paradise, with 22 brook trout counted
In partnership with private landowners and downstream of the new bridge and 15 trout
public agencies and nonprofits, PEC has com- counted upstream. Several weighed in at 150+
pleted four trout stream restoration projects grams and measured over nine inches in length,
reconnecting more than 10 miles of native brook a sign of a diverse age population, which is good
trout habitat. We are currently collaborating for genetics and an indication of sustained habi-
with the Virginia Department of Transportation tat. At Bolton Branch in Rappahannock County,
to complete two pilot projects in Rappahannock brook trout counts have grown by 32-38 percent
BROOK TROUT. Photo by Chris Hawk County that replace publicly owned culverts on throughout the stream’s restoration area.

2020 Highlights
` As a member of the Virginia Safe Wildlife ` PEC collaborated with Dr. Andrea Weeks and
Corridors Collaborative, PEC helped support plant ecology students at George Mason
passage of a groundbreaking law to create a University to conduct a formal survey of
statewide Wildlife Corridor Action Plan. The vegetation at our Roundabout Meadows
plan will identify wildlife corridors and threats to property. In October, eight students collected
wildlife movement, and will recommend priority and identified plant species from the seven-
areas for wildlife corridor projects and human acre wetlands preserve area. The group’s work
safety. follows that of recent GMU graduate Cameron
Pierce, who received funding through the
` PEC’s Krebser Fund provided a grant for the Garden Club of America’s Joan K. and Rachel
creation of a master plan and on-the-ground M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
improvements for Rappahannock County to begin the survey last summer. This effort
Park. In the spring, the park’s advisory council was supported by the Fauquier and Loudoun
partnered with Friends of the Rappahannock Garden Club.
and PEC to plant 145 new native trees. A section
of the park’s right-of-way that borders Highway ` More than 160 individuals attended “Capturing
211 has been planted with flowering redbuds the Rain,” PEC’s June webinar on habitat
for the spring and sugar maples that will boast restoration and green infrastructure options.
bright red foliage this fall. DR. WEEKS AND A GROUP OF STUDENTS CONDUCT A FORMAL SURVEY OF VEGETATION ON PEC’S
SEVEN-ACRE WETLANDS PRESERVE AT GILBERTS CORNER. Photo by Hugh Kenny

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 energy, transportation & climate
REDUCING VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED  • INCREASING RESILIENCY  • STORING CARBON

SOLAR PANEL GROUND MOUNT SYSTEM AT OAKHAM FARM IN LOUDOUN COUNTY.

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 energy, transportation & climate

Albemarle moves forward with

climate action plan
I n October, the Albemarle County Board of
Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt its
Climate Action Plan Phase 1. The adoption of this
plan marks an important first step toward creating a
broad “to do” list that aims to address climate change.
For the past 50 years, PEC’s work at the local level
has in many ways led the way in climate resilience,
including:

• working with private landowners to protect forest

The climate plan is the result of significant input from and farm lands, preserving their carbon sequestration
local individuals and organizations including PEC. benefit/potential;
PEC provided comments and suggestions throughout • advocating for policies and working with landowners
the development of Albemarle’s Climate Action Plan to protect stream corridors and local drinking water
Phase 1. We encouraged the County to immediately supply areas;
begin CAP Phase 2, in order to “move swiftly and set PEC is deeply invested in the work of local land use
clear timelines, specific targets, and interim bench- • encouraging planning to direct growth and and climate planning. With other localities in our
marks.” Now PEC is focused on assisting Albemarle development into compact urban centers and region currently conducting, or about to initiate, com-
in developing the concrete actions and commitments reducing associated emissions from sprawling prehensive plan reviews, many opportunities abound
needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 45% development patterns; and to ensure all of our localities are incorporating climate
from 2008 levels, and to achieve net zero greenhouse mitigation and adaptation strategies in their plans.
gas emissions by 2050. • focusing on building a strong local food network.
2020 Highlights
` The Coalition for Smarter Growth, a division ` PEC and the Local Energy Alliance Program organized the
of PEC founded by PEC and partners, led a 2020 Solarize Piedmont campaign to bring rooftop solar
successful campaign to convince metropoli- to more Piedmont households. Solarize Piedmont enables
tan Washington’s regional planning agency homeowners to get solar installed at discounted rates
to prioritize transit and other transportation from qualified installers, who in turn are able to build their
investments that address climate change. This businesses through marketing to a larger customer base.
provides a critical boost for transit, bicycling
and pedestrian improvements that both create ` PEC supported successful efforts to preserve Virginia’s
better communities and reduce pollution. Smart Scale program, a system for prioritizing transportation
projects. Smart Scale provides important criteria for ranking
` As the commonwealth faces growing interest in large-scale renewable energy production, transportation projects, including land use, safety and
PEC championed regulations, incentives and criteria to guide its development. We environmental quality. Several bills that were introduced
campaigned for incentives that encourage solar facility placement on old industrial and coal- in the 2020 General Assembly sought to reduce the
mined lands, and for battery storage to maximize the electric demand that will be met by importance of land use and environmental quality criteria
utility-scale solar energy projects. And we have helped local governments craft policies that in Smart Scale, but thanks to advocacy by PEC and other
preserve high climate-value forests and soils while guiding development of solar facilities. partners, all were defeated.

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 Contributors to the
Piedmont Foundation
Champions of Wallace and Anne
the Piedmont McDowell
$
10,000 - $24,999
Dr. Samantha Ahdoot* Friends of
the Piedmont
Commonwealth
of Virginia*
$
100 - $499

The Piedmont
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Stewards of W. Bopp Jr.
the Piedmont

Foundation
Mr. Tom Garrahan
$
5,000 - $9,999
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Matching Gift Program
Cheek, III
Mr. Robert Greenlee
Rosanna Gilbert
Photo by Hugh Kenny
Mr. David Lee

E
Lynx Investment Advisory
Mr. Michael Isel
stablished to hold and manage special funds in support of PEC, the Piedmont Foundation assures PEC’s PATH Foundation
Scott and Paige Melville
capacity to respond to key opportunities and challenges as they arise and to fulfill our core mission over the long Ms. Charlotte Tieken*

term. A separate 501(c)(3) charitable organization governed by an eight-member Board, the Foundation accepts Mr. David Ober

gifts of cash, securities, property and appreciated assets. The Foundation also offers opportunities for tax-advantaged Patrons of John and Sharon Odenkirk
the Piedmont
planned gifts, including trusts, bequests and life income plans. $
1,000 - $4,999 Ms. Beverly Stickles

Currently, the Piedmont Foundation manages funds in the following categories: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Crane Mr. Robert Willis

Mr. and Mrs. Dale Johnson Ms. Pamela Wittner

` Conservation Stewardship Fund — Evergreen Fund ` Land Conservation Fund
(Board Directed) * Land Stewardship Fund gift
Within this fund, the following Regional Land Conservation
` Easement Defense Fund Funds have been established:
` General Endowment Fund
Bull Run Mountains Land Conservation Fund
` Piedmont Memorial Overlook Fund
Clarke County Land Conservation Fund
Piedmont Foundation
` Albemarle County Land Conservation Program
Culpeper County Land Conservation Fund
Board of Directors 2020/2021
Endowment Fund
Greene County Land Conservation Fund Mark Ohrstrom, John H. Birdsall, III
` Albemarle General Endowment Fund
Krebser Fund for Rappahannock County Conservation President George Ohrstrom, II*
` Backer Fund
Madison County Land Conservation Fund Trevor Potter, Jean Perin*
` Land Conservation Officer Endowment (Albemarle) Fund Vice President
` CRUT Fund Orange County Land Conservation Fund Diana Prince
Charles Akre,
` Smart Growth Fund James M. Rowley Goose Creek Land Conservation Fund Secretary-Treasurer Chris McLean

` Unrestricted Fund Julian Scheer Fauquier Land Conservation Fund * Ex-Officio

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Contributions
With much gratitude, PEC presents the names of individuals, families, foundations,
businesses and organizations that supported The Piedmont Environmental Council during 2020. Although we
do not have the space to honor everyone, we are extremely grateful for the generosity of each of our members.
We offer sincere thanks for your ongoing commitment to promoting and protecting the Piedmont region.

Protectors of PATH Foundation US Fish and Wildlife Service— Gene Gulland & Jacquemin Family Foundation Bonnie Mattingly
the Piedmont National Fish Passage Program Elizabeth Ellers
Wrinkle In Time Foundation
$
100,000 + The Land Trust Alliance The Honorable Mary
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Horning V. Mochary
Agua Fund, Inc. Anonymous The Luminescence
Champions of
James Iker & Hayes Nuss Foundation, Inc. Jeanne & Michael Morency
William M. Backer Foundation
the Piedmont
Defenders of
$
10,000 - $24,999
The D.N. Batten Foundation the Piedmont MATT COYLE AT A BEEF DELIVERY TO FAUQUIER FISH WITH KAREN WAY OF OVOKA FARM, ANDY PLATT OF
Mrs. J.W. Abel Smith RAPPAHANNOCK FOOD PANTRY AND WAKEFIELD SCHOOL STUDENT VOLUNTEERS. Photo by Marco Sánchez
$
25,000 - $49,999
The August Heid Trust, Bank
of America, N.A., Trustee Friends of the Piedmont
Mr. & Mrs. James L. Ballheim
Manning Family Foundation Black Dog Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Birdsall, III
Donor Advised Fund
The Campbell Foundation Ms. Barbara H. Chacour
Mrs. Jacqueline B. Mars
James L. Kleeblatt Mr. & Mrs. J. Sheldon Clark
George & Manci Ohrstrom
Memorial Foundation
Ms. Jean Perin James C. Collins &
Chesapeake Bay Land & Virginia Donelson
Water Initiative: a project
Prince Charitable Trusts
of the Chesapeake Bay Peter & Betsy Corsell
Ms. S. Sonjia Smith Funders Network & the
Land Trust Alliance
Jesse & Sherri Crawford
The Volgenau Foundation
The Lazar Foundation
Thomas S. Foster &
Gail Farkas Munger Steven J. Dahllof
Guardians of
the Piedmont The Ohrstrom Foundation Marcia & George de Garmo
$
50,000 - $99,999
Karin & Mark Ohrstrom Helen Clay Frick Foundation
Mr. Robert C. Musser &
Ms. Barbara L. Francis Sacharuna Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Daniel B. Gorham

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 Mr. & Mrs. Michael Prentiss Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Epstein Mrs. Suzanne H. Scheer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Borger Dr. & Mrs. Jack B. Carter Robert & Adeline deButts

Marie W. Ridder Fauquier and Loudoun Shilling Foundation Mr. Brooks Bowen Anne & Sean Clancy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas
Garden Club H. DeLashmutt
Barbara & David Roux Stevenson Landscaping LLC The Ronald M. Bradley Gail & Ham Clark
Mr. & Mrs. Greg Fazakerley Foundation Mr. & Mrs. John B. Denegre
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. David M. Van Roijen Leslie & Andrew Cockburn
Cleo & Michael Gewirz Mr. Joe McKenna & Mr. Mitchell S. Diamond
Stonehall Farm Ms. Viviane Warren Ms. Sarah Brennan Mrs. Bertrand Collomb & Ms. Lucy Bernstein
Mr. Stephen Graham
Peter Stoudt & Alice Handy Mrs. James L. Wiley, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Brewster Commonwealth of Virginia Lynn & Edward Dolnick
Cynthia & John Grano
Virginia Environmental Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Wood Mr. Robert D. Broeksmit &
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Courtenay Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dove
Endowment George Grayson & Ms. Susan G. Bollendorf
Maria Tousimis Anonymous (2)
Taylor & Marilyn Cowles Duffy Family Foundation
Laurie Louise Volk Jennifer & Andrea Broggini
Mr. & Mrs. A. Dandridge Gregg
Mr. & Mrs. Renee Woolcott Sir Peter Crane & Lady Crane Mr. Dulany Morison &
Mr. & Mrs. B. Tim Brookshire
Patrons of Mrs. Eleanor Morison
Grelen Nursery, Inc. the Piedmont
Anonymous (2) Brzezinski Family Foundation Culpeper Foundation Fund
$
1,000 - $4,999 of the Northern Piedmont Dun Foundation
Ms. Georgia H. Herbert &
Mr. Jeff Burridge Community Foundation
Mr. Kenneth L. Garrett
100WomenStrong of the Dr. Ellen Stofan &
Stewards of Community Foundation Elizabeth C. Dalgliesh Mr. Tim Dunn
Ms. Phebe Cambata
the Piedmont Elizabeth Baker Keffer
for Loudoun and Northern
$
5,000 - $9,999 Fauquier Counties Jason & Sunnie Capelle Mr. & Mrs. J. Bradley Davis Mr. & Mrs. Scott Elliff
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kelly
Eleanor M. Adams Tom Akre & Erika Dr. & Mrs. Charles Carroll, IV Ms. Josephine de Give Karissa Epley
Claire Lindsay & David Kennell Gonzalez-Akre
Anita Antenucci
Mr. Bryce Lingo Mr. & Mrs. David Aldrich
Ann Mudge Backer STAFF “PHOTO” DURING A VIRTUAL STAFF MEETING.
Mr. & Mrs. Loren W. Hershey American Foundation
Dr. Andrew Bishop &
Mrs. Jane C. Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Charles Frederick & Christine Andreae
G. Mackall, Jr.
Mrs. Edward Bonnie Ms. Peggy Augustus
John & Susan McCarthy
Mr. & Mrs. Childs F. Burden Jack & Delma Bagley
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher
Mr. & Mrs. Landon Butler G. Miller The Tad Baldwin Family Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Leslie Cheek III Mobil Foundation, Inc. Agatha S. Barclay

Brian & Lucy Conboy Mr. Michael A. Pausic & Ms. Mr. John Beardsley &
Kelley A. MacDougall Ms. Stephanie Ridder
Michael & Karen Crane
Rappahannock Electric Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bernard
Mr. William J. Curtin III Cooperative – The
Power of Change Katharine Birdsall &
Mr. & Mrs. Ray DuBois Karl J. Pfefferkorn
Mr. Roger Sant & Ms.
Mrs. Frances Massey Dulaney Doris Matsui Matthew & Melanie Blunt

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Ms. Kat Imhoff & Mr. Dr. Morgan Delaney & Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Planck
John Moore Mr. Osborne Mackie
Mrs. Hope Porter
Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Irwin Ms. Margaret E. Mangano
Lucy S. Rhame
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jacoby Drs. Alan & Julie Matsumoto
Mrs. Althea D. Richards
Mr. James Fox Mr. & Mrs. James McDermott
John & Peggy Richardson
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Janes Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGettigan
Benjamin J. Rosenthal
Sean McGuinness & Lori Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. John Coles
Keenan McGuinness
Rossetter-Cuthbert Fund
John W. Warner, IV.
Mr. Stevenson McIlvaine
& Ms. Penelope Breese Ms. Terry Grant
Mr. E. Scott Kasprowicz &
Ms. Elizabeth Thorsey C. Gregg Ryan
Mr. Christopher L. McLean
Mr. Alton Keel Jr. Thomas & Andrea Salley
Ms. Katherine McLeod
Mr. & Mrs. Don King Dr. Gregory Schmidt
Mr. & Mrs. J. Clifford Miller III
PEC MEMBER MARGRETE STEVENS PARTICIPATES IN A FAUQUIER COUNTY NATIVE TREE GIVEAWAY PUT ON BY Ms. Leslie Kopp Lena Scott Lundh &
FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK AND PEC IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY 2020. Photo by Mike Stevens Mr. Bryan Mitchell & Mrs.
Lennart Lundh
Constance Chamberlin
Patricia and Nicolaas
Mr. & Mrs. Tom G. Evans Pamela Bliss French Mr. & Mrs. R. Barry Hamilton Kortlandt Memorial Grant Mr. & Mrs. Charles H.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Monk
from Northern Piedmont Seilheimer, Jr.
Fairfax Water Bryon Fusini & Robin Hanes Community Foundation
Ms. Catherine C. Murdock
Stephen Waudby Charles & Nora Seilheimer
Joan Farragher Ms. Jessie M. Harris Mr. & Mrs. Brian Krebs
Mrs. Jessica Nagle
Mr. Milton Sender
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gehris
Joyce & Henry Harris Mr. & Mrs. Steven Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Nash
Mr. & Mrs. Frank Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. J. Donald
Ms. Elizabeth H. Gemmill
Nicholas & Gardiner Lapham Shockey Jr.
Ms. Jackie Fernandes Ms. Maureen I. Harris Ms. Vicky Newell
Mr. & Mrs. John Giovenco
Troy & Tracey Laws Mr. Mark T. Snyder
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ferrari Caroline & Seth Heald Northern Piedmont
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Glickman Community Foundation Southern Exposure
Mark & Barbara Heller Roy & Denice Perry – the NPCF Emergency
Ms. Jane Fisher & Mr. Seed Exchange
Corrine & Timothy Glover Response Fund
Michael Bowles Mr. Hunter Lewis & Ms.
Mr. & Mrs. Loren W. Hershey Mr. & Mrs. Robert Spicer
Mr. Jay Golding & Ms. Elizabeth Sidamon-Eristroff Susan W. Oldfield
Mr. Jeremy Flachs Mr. & Mrs. Thomas
Tia Schurecht John R. Staelin &
L. Higginson, Jr. Dale & Ingrid Lindsay Mr. & Mrs. Gayden Parker Elizabeth F. Locke
Richard & Barbara Fontaine Mr. & Mrs. Porter J. Goss
Mr. & Mrs. Landon Hilliard III LMAC Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. David Perdue Scott Steen
Diana Foster & W. Cabell & Susan G. Grayson
Thomas H. Jones Mary Buford & Fred Hitz Richard Lykes Community Nicole Perry & Andrew Stifler Ms. Mary Lou Steptoe
Joe & Margaret Grills Fund at Northern Piedmont
Florence Bryan Fowlkes Ginevra M. Hunter Estate Community Foundation Scott & Page Peyton Mike & Margrete Stevens
Mr. Garland T. Hall & Mr.
John & Sarah Freeman Michael Goodfellow Elizabeth Hyatt Winkie Mackay-Smith Natalie Pien & Steven Sawtelle Drs. Kent Allen & Rae Stone

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 Karen & Kristopher Boushie George & Hope Morison Mr. William Snyder &
Dr. Laurin Mack
Calvert Bowie & Alex Orfinger Great Outdoor Provision Co.
Mr. & Mrs. David W. Mailler
Ms. Louisa Bradford Jennifer Greenleaf
Mr. Stewart Marr
Mr. & Mrs. Boris Brevnov Dr. & Mrs. Charles B. Greyson
Mary Carter McConnell
Catherine W. Brown Mr. Jeffrey Gutman &
Ms. Stacy Brustin Kim & Marla McIntyre
Bruce & Susan Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hallock Mrs. Sally McVeigh
Dr. & Mrs. John Buursink
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Mr. David Melby
Caplin Foundation Heatherton
Jeff & Julie Morrill
Amory S. Carhart Gertraud Hechl
Memorial Fund Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Motion
Ms. Ellen Hill
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Coleman Jr. Mark Nelis
Mr. Albert P. Hinckley, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. R. Reynolds Oak Spring Garden, LLC
Cowles Jr. Scott Imhoff
PEC’S ADAM GILLENWATER AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION PRESIDENT HOWARD LAMBERT DISCUSS PLANS FOR THE NEW Joy M. Oakes &
HISTORIC MARKER IN CULPEPER AT THE GROUNDBREAKING. MORE ON PAGE 11. Photo by Bri West
Mrs. Aileen B. Crawford Dr. Roy S. Jacobson & Ms. Thomas J. Cassidy
Carolyn E. Hitchcock
Mr. Jefferson S. Strider Ms. Sylvia J. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. William J. Anderson Dr. Russell B. McKelway Mr. & Mrs. Christopher
& Dr. Laura Dabinett Joan Kasprowicz Ohrstrom
Ms. Page D. Styles Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Howard Armfield
Mr. Robert M. Darby Ms. Sara Johnson Kathy Onion
Michael & Karen Crane The Wise Foundation Mr. Frederick Atwood
Ms. Karen Darby Katherine Kane & Olin L. West George & Susan Overstreet
Terra Alpha Investments Anneka MW Wisker Ms. Elizabeth Barratt-Brown
Drs. Joseph & Pamela Davis Lynne Kaye & Leo Subler Mr. Phil Paschall
& Mr. Ralph Dewey
Mr. James Thompson Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wood Jr.
Read deButts & Lisa Ostroff Ms. Meg Keeley & Mr. & Mrs. Mark Perreault
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Bateman
Mr. Khris Baxter
Mr. Joseph Volpe III Ms. Louisa Woodville Anna & Stanley Dees Mr. Joseph M. Perta
& Mr. Nigel Ogilvie Reverend & Mrs.
Ann & Scott Keep & Mr. Carl Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Wall George K. Beach Mr. John G. Dennis
Alan & Irene Wurtzel The Honorable Laura Dr. & Mrs. Michael J. Petite
Westchester Foundation Ms. Cricket Bedford Mr. & Mrs. Guy O. Dove III Kennedy & Mr. John Feeney
Anonymous (5) Kevin Ramundo &
Carter & Erica Wiley Ms. Katherine Berger Alan & Susan Dranitzke Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Anne D'Ignazio
K. Knapp Jr.
Michael Williams & Mr. & Ms. Richard Fausnaught Mary Foran Rappahannock Hunt
Sisi Gallagher Supporters of
Larkspur Services, Inc.
the Piedmont Ms. Sharon Bishop Mr. & Mrs. Charles Fortuna David Alberswerth
Cabell & Katherine Williams $
500 - $999 Hope Lawrence and Cary Ridder
Matthew & Barbara Black Joice & David Fredenburgh
Mr. & Mrs. Micheal Willis Ms. Lisa Abeel Mr. Kurt Lawson Rockley Foundation
Mr. Paul Blue & Ms. Enrique Solari-Garat
Ms. Eileen A. Wilson Alba M. Aleman Dianne Beal & Ariana V. Carles David & Emily Luebke Ms. Carolyn Ross

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Andrea Rosse Friends of Dr. & Mrs. Christopher Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Blumberg Mr. Stuart Brown & Ms. Melissa Cantacuzene
the Piedmont A. Bailey Katharine Close Brown
Mr. Jim Hurley & Ms. Carol S. Carter
$
100 - $499 Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Boland
Constance F. Bubon
Ms. Susan Roth
Mr. & Mrs. Langhorne Bond Mr. & Mrs. James R. Carter III
Ms. Kimberly Abe
Ms. Polly P. Rowley Mrs. Agatha S. Barclay Randolph M. Buckley
Ms. Claire Cassel
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Abrams Kathy Brandt
Constance S. Barker Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bullock
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Russell
Dr. & Mrs. Richard H. Catlett
Ms. Nancy Achilles Ms. Sara Lee Barnes Ms. Inge Braune Mr. John W. Burke III &
Cindy & George Sabato
Mrs. Judith Ayres Burke The Charles Fund
Mr. John B. Adams Jr. Rick Barnett Ms. Melanie Brede
Dr. Tom Sanchez
Mr. & Mrs. S. David Burns Robert M. Cheek
Ms. Catherine Adams Dennis M. Barry Ms. Sonya Breehey
Catherine Scott & Jamie Resor Ms. Susan Butler Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Christie
Mr. Norman Addington Ralph & Gwen Bates Mr. & Mrs. Harrison
Skyemar Foundation Mr. Forbes R. Reback & Chubb Charitable Foundation
P. Bresee, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Akers Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Baxter Ms. Sherry Buttrick
Mr. & Mrs. Jon Stout Bill & Deirdre Clark
Mr. Mark S. Allen Russell T. Beal & Julie & Ike Broaddus
Mr. Peter Byrne &
Northern Piedmont Barbara Bearman Mrs. Karen Byrne Shana Clarke
Community Foundation's Sandra & Ken Alm Mr. Karl Brotzman
Give Local Piedmont Nancy P. Beaver Ms. Patricia Callahan Mr. & Mrs. C. Hunter Cloud
Amazon Smile Foundation Dr. Lincoln P. Brower
Student Giving
Mr. & Mrs. Randy Beers & Ms. Linda S. Fink Mr. Jonathan Cannon Bruce & Sara Collette
Elizabeth Sumpter Mr. & Mrs. Christopher
Ambrose George Beller & Kakie Brooks
& Brian Carlton
HIKERS STOP TO READ MORE ABOUT PEC’S PIEDMONT MEMORIAL OVERLOOK AND SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE IN PARIS, VA.
Ms. Kathleen M. Ambrose The Bench Trail Fund
Ms. Holli Thompson &
Mr. Richard Leach Mr. Franklin Benfield
Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Andersen

Mr. & Mrs. William Waite Mr. & Mrs. Harry K. Benham III
Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Anderson

Chris Walton Ms. Cynthia L. Benitz

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Anikis

Mark & Jasmine Warrne Mr. James Bennett

Mrs. Rose Marie Anthony

Warrenton Garden Club Ms. Elizabeth K. M. W. Bergen

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy L. Ashley
Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell
Judith D. Washburn Mr. & Mrs. Henry F. Atherton H. Bernstein
Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Wilkins Ms. Sarah Atkins Ms. Cynthia D. Beyer

Mr. & Mrs. David F. Williams Brad & Kendra Atkins Mr. & Mrs. Francis C. Biasiolli

Katherine Pharibe Wise Mr. & Mrs. Philip Audibert Mr. & Mrs. David Blanchard

Margaret D. Wise-Stuart Mr. & Mrs. Mark Augenblick Barbara L. Blaylock

Tom & Jeanine Wolanski Frederick Kurt Bacher Maggi Blomstrom

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 Mr. & Mrs. William Ms. Mary Desmond The Fauquier Bank

The Bill Backer

J. Comstock
Dr. Don E. Detmer Mr. & Mrs. William A. Ferster
Ms. Debra Copeland

Legacy Society
Mr. Richard Dorrier Thomas & Susan Finn
Ms. Pamela J. Covington
Mr. Fred A. Drunagel & Mr. Daniel E. Fisher
Dr. & Mrs. Richard Ms. Elise H. Wilkins

N
S. Crampton Jacqueline Fleming
Ms. Victoria Duarte
amed for the avid conservationist Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Cronin Rachel Flynn
Ms. Katharine M. Dulaney
and former Piedmont Foundation Ms. Sarah S. Forth, Ph.D.
Candace Carter Crosby
President Bill Backer. Bill rallied con- Mr. Christopher S. Dunn
Mr. Sam Fowler
cerned citizens to participate in early efforts David & Trish Crowe
Lottie Dunn
to plan for future growth and conservation in Mr. Steve Crutchfield Karen Fox & Dirck Holscher
Dr. William D. Duvall
Virginia.
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Ms. Christine Fox
Ann and Roy Dye
If we want strong, resilient communities for P. Cultrera
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Francese
generations to come—then it’s essential and urgent for us to invest in conservation. Cecilia & James Cumming
Earth Day Network, Inc.
Ms. Nadra Franklin
We invite you to make a commitment to preserve the Piedmont by leaving a gift in
Jane & Phil Eberhardt
Mr. Mike Curtin
your will and becoming a member of the Bill Backer Legacy Society. Help ensure the Mr. & Mrs. Bibb Frazier
Piedmont remains a beautiful and productive place to live, work and visit for gen- Mr. & Mrs. William H. Dalton
Edgemont Farm, LLC.
Mr. Jeffrey L. Freeman &
erations to come. Mr. Nicholas Edsall Ms. Lauren Farnsworth
Ms. Elizabeth E. Daniel
Join the Bill Backer Legacy Society by including a planned gift to PEC in your estate Mr. Robert Ehinger Mr. & Mrs. Paul Fry
Liese & Sven Hodges
plan. Planned gift options include making a bequest through your will, codicil, or
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Elliott Mr. James T. Fuller III &
trust, or recognizing The Piedmont Environmental Council as a beneficiary of your Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Dart
Ms. Catherine T. Porter
IRA or retirement plan. Gifts of property and other assets are also possible. Ms. Karen Davenport
James G. Foster &
Bondele Ellis Christina Fullmer
Your gift to PEC can be applied to the general endowment fund (held by the Thomas Davenport William H. Emory Drs. Prasad & Jyothi Gadde
Piedmont Foundation), which helps
Laurie B. Davis &
provide an income stream to PEC, or Joseph Sellers
Norma & Doug Epley Ms. Megan Gallagher

can be directed toward a specific pro- Mr. Nathan Epling Ms. Karen Gardner
Mr. Jonathan Davis
gram or county conservation fund.
Dr. Jeanne M. Erickson & Garrick Giebel &
Ms. Barbara DeRosa-Joynt
If you have already included PEC Dr. Jonathon. D. Truwit Anne Grenade
& Mr. Thomas Joynt
in your estate plans, please let us Ms. Jane L. Erwine Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Gilbert
know so we can include you in the Mr. Thomas M. deButts
David & Elaina Evans Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Gillespie
Legacy Society. For more informa- Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Decker
tion please contact: Doug Larson, at Facebook Reverend Brandon Gilvin
Mike DeHart & Dr. Lisa Hale Gilvin
(540) 347-2334 or [email protected]. Farm Credit of the
PIEDMONT MEMORIAL OVERLOOK IN AUGUST. Mrs. Robert T. Dennis Virginias, ACA Ms. Marjory B. Giuliano
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Mr. David Goetz Sigrid Hepp-Dax Mr. & Mrs. T. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lawrence Laura & Bud Lieberman Mr. & Mrs. Hunt Lyman
Christopher Jenkins
Ann & Jeff Gonya Ms. Susan L. Heytler Ms. Aliene M. Laws Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Lillis Mr. & Mrs. Talbot Mack
Mr. & Mrs. Dean H. Jewett
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Gookin Mr. Doug Hill & Ms. Amy Neale Anna & Thomas Lawson Mr. & Mrs. Graham Lilly Mr. & Mrs. Justin
Ms. Cynthia F. Johnson Mackay-Smith
Jeff Green Mr. James Hiney Mr. Robert Lee & Dr. & Mrs. George H. Lindbeck
Senator & Mrs. J. Mrs. Sue Kellon John Magee
Stuart T. Greene Ms. Holly C. Hintz Bennett Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Trowbridge
Mr. Douglas H. Lees III T. Littleton
Katherine Grove Zola Makrauer
Mr. Peter Hoagland & Marionette & Edward Jones
Mrs. Peggy Smith Mr. Richard Kelso & Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Long
Mr. Charles A. Grymes Ms. Tamara Jovovic Mr. John F. Marshall &
Judith A. Lefferts
Sandra & Robert Hodge Dr. Thomas Lovejoy Mrs. Cri Kars-Marshall
Mr. Russ Guzdar Ms. Carol R. Joynt Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Levingston
Mrs. Sarah S. Hodgkin Ms. Elizabeth Lowe Ms. Jan Massey
Pamela Gwaltney Michael Kane & Margaret Cheryl Lewis
Sharon D. Holmes Mentink Kane Timothy Weber & Deborah Mr. Malcolm Matheson,
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Hack
Mr. & Mrs. William Lewis Luzynski-Weber III & Ms. Nancy West
Daniel Holmes & Brianna West Johanna & Richard D. Keeling
Mr. & Mrs. Randall Hall
PEC COMMUNITY FARM MANAGER DANA MELBY HELPED US DONATE MORE THAN 25,000 POUNDS
Mr. Rick Honig & Karl Kelley TO LOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF IN 2020. Photo by Marco Sánchez
Mr. & Mrs. Edwards A. Halle, Jr.
Ms. Dita Verheij
Mr. Scott Kelly
Ms. Rachel Hammes
Andrea Humm
Mr. David Lloyd Kennell &
Ms. Barbara Hamran
Karen Hunsberger Ms. Mary Clare Lindsay
Adam & Paul Adam
Beverly Harner
Catherine Kerkam
Ms. Linda C. Hunt & Bryan Benitz
Mr. Timothy Harr &
Mrs. Winfield Crigler
Peggy T. Hunt Mr. Joseph Keyser
Drs. Jeffrey & Lucille Harris
Mr. & Mrs. John E. Hunter Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Kirchner
Dr. Bert Harris & Dr.
Eleanor Harris The Reverend & Mrs. Peter Klemz
H. Miller Hunter, Jr.
Mr. Gene Harwell Mr. & Mrs. Tom Knaus
Mr. Hal Hunter
Mr. & Mrs. Juergen Hauber Padma Kolla
Hunting Creek Garden Club
Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Haws Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kott
Mr. Kirby R. Hutto
Dr. & Mrs. William H. Hay Ms. Sheila LaFalce
Mr. John Ince
Louis Mazatenta & Sheryl Ellen Lambeth
Heckler Mazzatenta Ms. Linda Y. Ingram
Rose E. Lane
Michael Henke & Mr. & Mrs. William
Judy Campbell T. Jackson Jr. Catherine C. Larmore

Dr. & Mrs. Ken Henson Mark W. & Gail L. Jeffries Doug & Liza Larson

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 Diane Rosin & Mark Okusa Dr. G. Carlton Ray & Mrs. Mr. Hurst K. Groves &
Jerry McCormick-Ray Ms. Barbara Sharp
Mary O'Meara
Edward M. Reardon Mr. Matthew J. Sheedy
Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Owings & Mrs. Vicky Bendure
Paul Reisler & Cheryl Toth
Dr. Helen Parker & Sherando High School
J.B. Riggs Parker Richard & Patricia Barnhardt
Mr. & Mrs. Berk Shervin
Mr. John R. Parks Schuyler Richardson
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Silver
Scott Pearce & Mr. James F. Rieger &
Rebecca Lindsay Ms. Caroline F. McKay Carolyn Smith

Mr. Thomas G. Pellikaan Mr. Scott Rife Mr. & Mrs. G. D. Smith

Ms. Shelley Perry Sheldon & Ronda Ritchie Ms. Meghan Sobbott

Mr. & Mrs. Peter G. Rice Mr. Daniel Robey Mr. & Mrs. William H. Speiden

Jeremy Peterson Kenneth & Carolyn Rop Kate Spencer

Piedmont Virginia Bird Club Mr. & Mrs. Richard B. Rose Christopher Speron
PEC’S BIKECVILLE PROGRAM WENT VIRTUAL OR SELF-GUIDED FOR MOST OF 2020, BUT NOT BEFORE THIS FUN
MARDIS GRAS-THEMED RIDE IN FEBRUARY! Photo by Naomi Johndaugher Mr. & Mrs. Mark Piper Liz & Tony Samra Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Stapleton

Trip Pollard & Elizabeth Outka Mr. & Mrs. David Sarr Dr. Bruno F. Steinbruckner &
Matthew 5:3 Fund Dr. Peter & Mrs. Mr. & Mrs. Brian S.
Mrs. Claudia Steinbruckner
Margaret McLean Montgomery
Mr. & Mrs. John Porter Mr. & Mrs. Steve Satterfield
Ms. Katherine L. Mattos
Mrs. Anne Stelter
Ms. Susannah McNear Mr. & Mrs. James Moorman
Mr. & Mrs. E. Ronald Poston Eliza Savage & Chris
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mayo
Staltonstall Christopher & Janet Sten
Mr. Andrew McRoberts Ms. Lucie Morton
Potomac Vegetable Farm
Mrs. Joann S. Mazzetta
Eleanor & William Sawyer Douglas Stewart &
Howard Means Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Motion
Mr. John Praither Tamara Harvey
Mr. & Mrs. Richard
Rebecca & Drew Schaefer
Mazzucchelli Mr. Neil Means Matthew & Mary Murray
Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Prochaska Finley Stewart
Mr. Grey Scheer
Dr. Lydia Donaldson & Dr. Ms. Janel T. Melgaard Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Murray
Ms. Matilda Purnell Philip & Merrill Strange
William McCormick
Mr. Carl Schmitt
Peggy Duxbury & Mr. Norman Myers
Chip & Mary Queitzsch Ms. Susan Strittmatter
Ms. Mary Leigh McDaniel Steve Metruck
Mr. William Scholten
Commander & Mrs.
Paula Rabkin Katherine Strother
Patti McGill Peterson & Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Michel Nathaniel P. Neblett
Mr. & Mrs. James Schwartz
Kate S. Woodward
Mr. & Mrs. Tim Radford Daniel Studnicky and
Ellen Percy Miller & Tom Miller Lynn & William Nelson
Ms. Mara Seaforest Dennis Stout
Mr. & Mrs. Henry D.
Taylor Randolph
McHenry, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Miller Ms. Jane W. Nelson
Ms. Fiona Seager Mr. & Mrs. Reid P. Stuntz
Watsun Randolph &
Mr. & Mrs. William R. Mckey Mr. & Mrs. William S. Miller Mrs. Jane M. Noland
Tiffany Parker Dr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Sentz Ms. Nancy Sullivan
Frank R. & Patty McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. Michael G. Miller Mrs. Vibeke Ober
Ms. Yvette Ravina Mr. & Mrs. V. R. Shackelford III Ms. Sabrina Sutton

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Mr. John J. Taylor & Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Thompson Jr. Mr. Carter H. Tucker & Ms. Karen Wachtmeister Thomas & Barbara Wolf Ms. Kat Imhoff & Mr.
Mrs. Jeannette Walls Mrs. Peggy Tucker John Moore
Ms. Judith Z. Thorne Ms. Suzanne Wade Ms. Paula Wolferseder Yabar
Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Taylor Mr. Gordon Tully Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Jawer
Mr. James P. Waite Cheri & Martin Woodard
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Thurston
Richard & Heather Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tuttle The Thomas Jefferson
Mr. & Mrs. Frank S. Walker Jr. William & Sylvia Worrall Foundation
Ms. Kathleen Timberlake
Ms. Abigail Taylor Mrs. Sherry Twining &
Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Wallach Dr. & Mrs. Harold E. Young Dr. Amy Johnson, Virginia
Toddz, Inc. Mr. Tom Walmer
Mr. Stewart F. Taylor Working Landscapes
Dr. Douglas Ward & Gary & Jene Younkin
Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Twining Mr. Earl Johnson
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Tekrony Catherine Kerkam
C. Tompkins Anonymous (5)
& Bryan Benitz
Peter & Laura Unger Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Warthen III
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Templeman
Mr. & Mrs. William Tompkins Stephanie Leupold
Betty S. Valmarana Ms. Diana K. Weatherby
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Terseck Auction Donors
Mr. & Mrs. Amadeo
Theo Van Groll & Charlotte Diana Webb
In-Kind Gifts
 Mr. Joe McKenna &
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Theroux C. Tortorella Ms. Sarah Brennan
P. Black-Van Groll Ms. Catherine Adams
Ms. Julia D. Thieriot Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Weeden
Mr. Dulany Morison &
Ms. Lili Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Alfred P. Van Huyck Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Mrs. Eleanor Morison
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Weeks
Mr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Thomas Ambrose
Mr. John L. Trimmer Mr. & Mrs. Michel Van Yahres Ms. Jean Perin
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Wehrle Mr. & Mrs. Childs F. Burden
Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Ms. Francine L. Trull Anita Vere-Nicoll The Honorable Trevor A. M.
Dr. Anthony L. McCall & Mr. & Mrs. Landon Butler
Mr.and Mrs. Robert Potter & Mr. Dana S. Westring
Ms. Madelyn F. Wessel
C. Thompson John Tschirky Harold & Ann May Via
The Clifton Institute Frederick Reuter
Alice & Curtis West
PEC FIELD REPRESENTATIVE CLAIRE CATLETT AND ALBERT SPELLS FROM THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TALK Dr. & Mrs. R. Reynolds Mr. Claude M. Schoch
TO BOLTON BRANCH FARM OWNER GARY YOUNKIN AFTER THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE TROUT STREAM
Ms. Lynda S. White Cowles Jr. & Ms. Andrea Ross
RESTORATION PROJECT ON HIS PROPERTY. Photo by Hugh Kenny
Mr. & Mrs. Craig White Sir Peter & Lady Eleanor
Mr. & Mrs. David Roux
Crane, Oak Spring
Mrs. Margaret White Garden Foundation
Diane & Will Russell
Ms. Carey C. Whitehead Thomas S. Foster &
Mr. Joseph & Dr.
Steven J. Dahllof
Whitfield Giving Fund Stephanie Spytek
Dr. & Mrs. Paul Diehl
Ellen G. Wilbur Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stanfield
Mr. & Mrs. Greg Ellison
Kimberly Wilcox Henry Garon &
Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Epstein Donna Stutzman
Mr. William C. Wilkinson III
Mark Frondorf, The Cita & David Suratgar
Mr. Roger Williams Shenandoah Riverkeepers
Mr. & Mrs. Adalbert
Dawn & Christopher Wilmot Mr. Clark B. Hall von Gontard III

Kate & Jeb Wofford Mr. & Mrs. David Hartley Carter & Erica Wiley

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 In Memory
This winter, we were sad to learn of the passing of three former PEC board members.
All three were passionate advocates for the natural resources, rural economy,
history and beauty of this region, and all three will be sorely missed.

Phil Irwin Lynn Coleman Jean Brown

PEC BOARD TERM: 1972 - 1987 PEC BOARD TERM: 2004 - 2014 PEC BOARD TERM: 1995 - 2000

At recent PEC events, Phil Irwin would always take a Born and raised in west Texas, Lynn Coleman loved Jean Brown was a passionate advocate for rural
moment to share how proud he was to be the last the farms and forests of Fauquier and Rappahannock. Loudoun County and force of nature in support of
founding member of The Piedmont Environmental At PEC, he was best known for his leadership role public participation, serving on numerous advisory
Council, having served on our original Board of fighting Dominion’s TrAIL transmission line project, groups and boards in addition to PEC. Other
Directors. Phil was a fierce advocate for conservation, as well as our successful campaign to overturn the organizations that benefited from Jean’s leadership
a proponent of thoughtful land use planning National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor included Scenic Virginia, the Virginia League of
and a dear friend of many. His dedication to the designation covering much of the east coast. A former Conservation Voters, and the Loudoun County
Piedmont was well known in his adopted home of General Counsel to the Department of Energy and Preservation and Conservation Coalition. Also an
Rappahannock, where he occupied a reserved seat a renowned energy lawyer in Texas, Washington, advocate for small business, Jean helped launch
at Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors and internationally, Lynn had a deep interest in the the Loudoun County B&B Guild, and served on the
meetings for decades. environment, historic preservation and practical County Historic District Review Committee and the
solutions to combat climate change. Rural Economic Development Committee.

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 PEC board and staff

PEC Staff PEC Board of Directors

Land Use Outreach and Communications This list includes Board members who served at any
time between January 2020 and January 2021.
Gem Bingol, CLARKE & LOUDOUN COUNTIES Robin Cross, FELLOWSHIP & VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
Julie Bolthouse, FAUQUIER COUNTY Hugh Kenny, MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST
Adam Gillenwater, SENIOR POLICY MANAGER/ Watsun Randolph, SENIOR GIS ANALYST Officers Culpeper County Loudoun County
CULPEPER, GREENE & MADISON COUNTIES
Cindy Sabato, COMMUNICATIONS ADVISOR George Ohrstrom, II, CO-CHAIR Tania Cubitt Brad Bondi
Chris Hawk, ALBEMARLE & ORANGE COUNTIES Jean Perin, CO-CHAIR John Grano Eugene Gulland*
Marco Sánchez, COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER
Dan Holmes, DIRECTOR OF STATE POLICY Mark Ohrstrom, VICE CHAIR Seth Heald* John Magee
Bri West, DIRECTOR OF OUTREACH & COMMUNICATIONS
Alton Keel, SECRETARY Linda “Boo” Ingram* Bonnie Mattingly*
Kristie Kendall, HISTORIC PRESERVATION MANAGER
David Aldrich, TREASURER Eleanor Porter Morison
Peter Krebs, COMMUNITY OUTREACH
COORDINATOR, ALBEMARLE/CHARLOTTESVILLE
Information Systems Fauquier County Natalie Pien
and Technology Albemarle County
Evan McCarthy, LOUDOUN COUNTY Mimi Abel Smith*
Karen Hunsberger Adam, DATA COORDINATOR Madison County
John H. Birdsall, III* Steve Dahllof
Tiffany Parker, DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Chris McLean* George Grayson Robert Bernard*
Land Conservation
Hamilton “Chip” Moses III James Kleeblatt*
Maggi Blomstrom, RAPPAHANNOCK-RAPIDAN/CULPEPER
Membership and Development Patricia Prentiss Mark Ohrstrom* Orange County
Claire Catlett, FAUQUIER & RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTIES Nora Seilheimer* Jean Perin*
Kendra Atkins, DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Jim Collins
Peter Hujik, MADISON & ORANGE COUNTIES Peter Stoudt Margaret Milner Richardson*
Karissa Epley, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Roy Jacobson
Mike Kane, DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION Marie Ridder*
Gertraud Hechl, MAJOR GIFTS
Tracy Lind, CLARKE, FAUQUIER & LOUDOUN COUNTIES Clarke County Chloe Squires
Doug Larson, DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR Rappahannock County
Lynn Wiley*
Rex Linville, ALBEMARLE & GREENE COUNTIES Susan Gallagher David Aldrich*
Douglas Stewart, GRANTS MANAGER Virginia Wilson*
Celia Vuocolo, HABITAT & STEWARDSHIP SPECIALIST Cleo Smart Gewirz Leslie Cockburn
George Ohrstrom, II* Helen DuBois
Finance and Administration Laurie Volk Greene County
Farms and Food Roy Dye*
Cindy Donaldson, SENIOR ACCOUNTANT * Denotes 2020 Executive
Matt Coyle, LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS COORDINATOR Jim Hurley Committee member
David Fredenburgh, DIRECTOR OF
Dana Melby, COMMUNITY FARM MANAGER FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Alton Keel*
Pete Walton, FARM AND PROPERTY SPECIALIST George Overstreet*

Executive
Chris Miller, PRESIDENT
Kat Imhoff, SENIOR CONSERVATION FELLOW
John McCarthy, SENIOR ADVISOR &
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Leigh Ross, LEGAL ASSISTANT AND RECORDS MANAGER

Dawn Wilmot, EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT

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 2020 Financial Report
Sources of Organizational Support Program and Operating Expenditures

Individuals $ 1,537,801 29.7% Conservation, Stewardship and Habitat $ 1,349,578 27.0%

Government 552,934 10.7% County Issues and Planning 729,831 14.6%
Foundations 2,503,575 48.3% Policy* 366,294 7.3%
Special Events, Net 322,170 6.2% Farms and Food 403,446 8.0%
Investments, Other 68,644 1.3% Transportation and Growth Management 11,901 0.2%
Real Estate Transactions 198,152 3.8% Outreach and Education 506,594 10.1%
Total $ 5,183,276 100% Development 555,653 11.1%
Administration 1,084,859 21.7%
The above figures do not include the activities of the Coalition for Smarter Growth, Total $ 5,008,156 100%
a division of PEC. Copies of PEC’s audited financial statements and IRS forms 990
are available upon request. Copies of our most recent statements may also be
found at PEC’s website at www.pecva.org/donate. For more information, please
contact PEC’s accounting office at (540) 347-2334.

* Policy reflects regional and state-level work on policy related to energy, air quality, water quality, telecommunications, land conservation and land use.

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