Winter 2014-15 Saving Land Newsletter

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Saving Land for People and the Planet – Annual Report 2013-2014 “Bay Day” Blast Land to Feed the People- Buchanan Couple Protects Farm

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Blue Ridge Land Conservancy Promoting the conservation of western Virginia’s natural resources- farms, forests, waterways, and rural landscapes Board of Trustees M. Rupert Cutler, President Linda W. Pharis, Vice President F. Fulton Galer, Treasurer Whitney H. Feldmann, Secretary C. Whitney Brown Stephen M. Claytor Thomas M. Dunkenberger, Jr Peter M. Fellers Broaddus C. Fitzpatrick Quinn F. Graeff William M. Hackworth Anne M. Jennings George A. Kegley Betty H. Lesko Samuel B. Long Janet Scheid

Advisory Council Liza T. Field Talfourd H. Kemper Robert B. Lambeth, Jr. Jeanne M. Martin John B. Williamson, III

Staff David C. Perry, Executive Director Meagan R. Cupka, Project Manager Allison E. Hegan, Office Assistant 722 First Street SW, Suite L Roanoke, VA 24016 540-985-0000 blueridgelandconservancy.org

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Jenning’s Creek Credit: Meagan Cupka

Honoring Barbara Lemon

A friend of the land

by George Kegley

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arbara Lemon will be remembered for her generosity and love of the land, her family and the community. She was generous with all in a firm, quiet way. When she died unexpectedly on Oct. 7, the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy lost its founder and best friend.

Barbara served our region in so many ways, but organizing, promoting, and sustaining the former Western Virginia Land Trust and the present Blue Ridge Land Conservancy was at the top of the list.

She was a founding board member of Center in the Square, Foundation for Roanoke Valley and Valley Bank; past president of the Historical Society of Western Virginia, Junior League of Roanoke Valley and Roanoke Valley Garden Club.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, she came to Roanoke when her Texas-born father, John Boyle, became president of the former Mountain Trust Bank. She inherited his financial acumen. She was a graduate of Jefferson High School and the former Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and taught briefly at the old Lee Junior High School. Teaching Sunday School at Roanoke’s Second Presbyterian Church was her delight for 50 years.

View from the Ridgeline What do you think?

Land conservancies are funny critters. We make agreements with folks to protect their land from too much development, and then promise to carry out our end of the bargain…forever. And forever is a mighty long time. The only way to make certain that we can stick around forever is to be indispensable to you: something that you can’t do without. And the only way to do that is to find out what you care about, and save those things.

conservancy. Our home office isn’t in Topeka or even Richmond—it’s in downtown Roanoke, and you’ll find us at work in Blacksburg, Floyd, New Castle, Bedford, Rocky Mount, Daleville and everywhere in between.

Drop us a line. Tell us what matters.

Rupe and Dave

What are the places in your community that you care about the most? What mountaintop, farm, river or scenic view do you want to see protected…forever?

We need to know, because this is your home. We want to do the work that matters to you, because we’re your land

Rupert Cutler

Dave Perry

Barbara Lemon

She married Bill Lemon, a lawyer from Covington and they bought a Botetourt County farm across Craig Creek from land Bill’s family had owned before the Civil War. Barbara once said she inherited gardening skills from her mother and grandmother and she loved trips to their acres to practice organic farming and to raise grass-fed Charolais and Black Angus beef cattle. She worked a garden there for a long time, but watching birds and squirrels in her South Roanoke backyard was her pleasure in later years.

Barbara was the chairman of the Land Trust board for its first eight years, and received the organization’s A. Victor Thomas Environmental Stewardship Award at the 2012 Conservation Celebration. She was a champion for conservation easements and any efforts to save the land for future generations. Her legacy as an environmental steward is the conservation of mountains, hills, valleys and streams in Southwest Virginia. Her son, Stephen Lemon, provided valuable legal assistance to the Land Conservancy for years and is a former board member and advisory council member.

A major achievement in her tenure as chairman was the purchase of the 9,000-acre Big Survey in Wythe County by the Commonwealth of Virginia. She led an establishment of a Land Trust office and a two-man staff.

Barbara Lemon was involved in so many community activities, her friend, Lucy Ellett, recalls, “but she always had time for the individuals. You never felt that she was rushing from one thing to another. She was able to accomplish it all.”

She leaves a close family. The Lemons—Bill and daughter Sarah, sons Tucker and Stephen and seven grandchildren—often fill two pews at Second Presbyterian Church and two tables for Sunday lunch.

Table of Contents • winter 2014–2015 Honoring Barbara Lemon...................... 2 Third Bay Day for Students.................. 4 Land to Feed the People....................... 5 Kiwanis Grows Gardens......................... 6 Donor Spotlight.......................................7 Annual Report................................... 8–14 Behind BRLC: Celebration Recap.......15 View of Purgatory Mountain in Bedford County

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A beautiful

Land to Feed the People

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The Chesapeake Bay Day Field Experience educates for third year in a row

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by George Kegley

Botetourt County couple works to preserve their memories and land

“...shrieks and laughs could be heard clear

across the farm”

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arold “Bubby” Entsminger and his wife, Janet, greet me at the front door when I arrive at their farm on a warm October morning. Before I step inside, I notice the small herd of goats watching us from the barn nearby.

These goats have a better view from their barnyard than most people do out of their dining rooms. The Entsmingers’ fields fall away and down to Davis Run, and extend to the west over several hollows. Purgatory Mountain looms in the east. At this time of year the trees seem to be on fire with their colorful leaves, and the view is striking. I can’t imagine how beautiful it is in the snow or when trees are budding in the spring.

Bubby and Janet grew up around farms. We laugh as Bubby recalls being put on a corn chopper at ten years old, and being handed a sandwich and a drink to last him all day.

Students playing and learning at Bay Day

by Meagan Cupka

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t was overcast and sprinkling rain as Colonial Elementary fourth-grade students hopped off of bus 192 and onto the Preece Farm in Buchanan. Their teacher joked that it didn’t matter if they got a little wet- they would be getting into a creek, anyway. This group was starting their “Bay Day” at Station 1: the “stream school” station, run by the Clean Valley Council (CVC). The kids gathered around two tables with many curious items: plastic tweezers, ice cube trays, pocket microscopes, and a small fish tank.

Two CVC educators, Dawn and Erin, met the kids at the tables next to Looney Creek. They talked about clean water and how to see if the stream behind them was healthy. Erin talked about small water organisms called “macroinvertebrates”. These organisms, she explained, could help show if the stream had unpolluted water.

After a few instructions, the students were ready to look for those macroinvertebrates in the 55-degree water. As the sun started to peak from behind the clouds, shrieks and laughs could be heard clear across the farm. A few minutes and several waterlogged shoes later, students emerged from the creek with Dawn and Erin. They held what looked like two wet folded sheets with leaves inside. That’s where the real fun began.

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After dumping the wet leaves onto the tables, students picked through the debris with the plastic tweezers. Little heads crowded together, searching for a mayfly larva, a caddisfly, or maybe the pinchers of a crawdad. One group even found a small fish! Each organism made its way into the fish tank or the ice cube tray.

Allison Hegan, a BRLC staff member who helped that day, laughed as she talked about the kids. “They were just so funny when they got into the creek. You had girls who jumped right in and had no problem with grabbing slimy rocks, and boys who were nervous about getting wet!”

The group continued on to three other learning stations that morning, rotating with other fourth-grade students from Botetourt County schools. They ran through the forest gathering seeds with Dennis from the Virginia Department of Forestry.

They played a soil erosion game with Beth from Camp Bethel and crawled through the hay field. They managed their own “land” and saw how their actions can impact other people with Robin from the Western Virginia Water Authority. They ate a picnic lunch while Mike Scott played American folk classics on his guitar. They had a fantastic day.

“Once you started those engines, you didn’t stop them for the day”, he says. He also remembers riding out on his horse, “Jésus,” at four years old to go help make hay.

Janet grew up on a small farm in Franklin County. Her father worked with the local dairy farms taking samples from the herd.

“He raised corn and moonshine, too” Bubby jokes.

This farm is part of the property where Bubby spent his summers and weekends. It was purchased in 1940 by his grandfather, and was used from 1945-1978 to raise Red Angus cattle.

Bubby and Janet built their home on it in the 1960’s. When I ask them what their favorite part of working this farm is, Bubby answers it’s the people he works with, and improving the land and herd over time.

By Meagan Cupka A real point of pride for them was raising their daughters on the farm. Janet shares how raising their daughters there and as part of the 4-H program taught them about responsibility and the value of the land. The money from raising steers and goats for competition in the 4-H program always went towards their college funds.

A special yet tough memory for them was the first time their oldest daughter put her prized steer on the truck destined for market. She had raised the steer as part of a 4-H project.

“He had become a real pet for her,” Janet says.

“We were riding in the truck on the way back home when she looked at me and asked, ‘Daddy, can we go back and get him?’ That was a hard moment,” Bubby states.

But it also taught their daughters about the cycle of life, and how much it takes to feed people, the couple explains.

Like Bubby’s father and grandfather, they’ve put a lot of work into this farm. They spent many sleepless nights waiting for calves to be born, waking up every two hours over a three week period to check on the heifers. Bubby has put in fencing to keep the cattle out of Davis Run and the natural springs in an effort to keep the water clean. Wells he had installed provide fresh water for the livestock.

I ask what inspired Bubby to follow best management practices: the kinds of guidelines given by the local Soil and Water Conservation District to preserve clean water and

prevent erosion. He says that he had wanted to see what the projects could do. He wasn’t disappointed. The wells he constructed provided water which the cattle preferred to the creek water. By using rotational grazing, he was able to increase the quality of the herd and his land.

The Entsmingers are working to preserve their family farm in 2015 with a conservation easement held by the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy. After they sign the agreement, Bubby will still own the property, but he and Janet will agree to limit development on the land so it will always remain beautiful.

This farm, like so many others we’ve visited, is now protected with a conservation agreement held by the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy.

Bubby still owns the property, but he and Janet have agreed to limit development on it so the land will always remain beautiful.

Bubby and Janet grow corn and hay, and lease a few of their fields to a cattle farmer. The goats, he tells me, are a project of his granddaughter’s, who is raising and showing them as part of the 4-H club.

His daughters are involved in farming in one way or another, and the couple is proud that this way of life has been passed down through the generations.

Learning the value of the land and how to care for it is something they believe is important.

“We’ll run out of enough land to feed the people if we’re not careful,” he says.

We thank the Chesapeake Bay Trust for funding the 2014 Bay Day. This is BRLC’s third year organizing the event.

Small water organisms called macroinvertebrates can help show if a stream has unpolluted water.

Janet and Harold “Bubby” Entsminger in front of their conserved farm. Photo by Meagan Cupka.

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Giving

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Want to participate in Giving Tuesday or are thinking of giving back to your community this holiday season? Consider donating to the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy. There are many ways to support us.

• Make a Donation! Visit www.blueridgelandconservancy.org • Shop on Amazon through the link on the BRLC website, and part of your purchase will be donated to us! Simply click the “Support Us” tab on the website to find the link.

• Sign up your Kroger Plus card to the Community Rewards program, and start earning money for your local land conservancy! Visit our website and click the “Kroger Community Rewards” link under the “Support Us” tab. You’ll then find directions on how to link your Kroger Plus card!

Sponsor

Spotlight: Corrugated Container Corp.

• Give a Gift: Honor a family or friend with a donation, and they’ll receive a special card announcing the gift as well as a year’s worth of our Saving Land newsletter.

• The Little Things: There are always things we need to keep the office running. We currently need copy paper, gas cards, and grocery store gift cards.

• Larger Gifts: Possible large gifts include used vehicles, real estate, or appreciated stock.

Remember, BRLC is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Gifts to the land conservancy are tax-deductible.

For more information, please contact David Perry at 540-985-0000 or dperry@blueridgelandconservancy.org

Kiwanians Fund

David Higginbotham stands in front of his conserved Floyd Co. farm

David Higginbotham loves his Bent Mountain home

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ome spring 2015, students at Highland Park Elementary School in Roanoke will be digging, planting, watering, and playing -in the dirt, of course!

On October 22, BRLC accepted a $500 grant award from the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke. This year’s grant is the second from Kiwanis for starting a new garden club. The 2013 grant started the club at Westside Elementary School in Roanoke, and was used to construct garden beds and purchase gloves and hand tools for the 6

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students. The money from the 2014 grant will be used in the same way.

The main goals of this club are to get school kids outside, and to help them learn the value of land. We at BRLC have heard too many people comment on how kids are just not spending any time outside, or how they think their food magically appears on the shelves at Kroger. We think this is a great chance to get them away from the TV screen. Some of the added benefits of having this club are that students are moving around more and getting exercise while

playing, they’re learning where their food comes from and how it’s grown, and they’re learning about different types of vegetables which hopefully leads to healthy eating habits. The students will learn how to grow food and flowers, and will also be able to take home the harvest from their work.

The construction of the garden beds will begin February – March 2015. We’re looking for volunteers to help build the raised vegetable beds. If interested, contact us at (540) 985-000 or email Meagan at mcupka@blueridgelandconservancy.org.

avid Higginbotham says he and his family support the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy because “we believe in good stewardship. We’ve got to preserve the open spaces, mountains and ridges.” He and his wife, Sonja “love Bent Mountain” where they have lived for 26 years.

David, president of the family-owned Corrugated Container Corp. based on Starkey Road in southwest Roanoke County, recently bought 111 acres and he’s considering a second conservation easement there in the near future. Four years ago, he and his wife protected 202 acres of the former Angle farm with an easement held by the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy.

Later, the couple was able to build a home on Tinsley Lane on Bent Mountain. His four children support the easement, too.

For David, part of practicing good stewardship is in his support of the work of the Conservancy. While keeping his fields and forests free of development, he found a Floyd farmer who raises beef cattle on his acres. He had cut some

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timber before gypsy moths could damage the trees. When David first purchased the farm, he inherited five apple trees.

To him, they have “the best apples” he’s ever eaten.

The Higginbothams enjoy the cooler temperatures of summer on top the mountain. However, winters can be harsh with the ice and snow drifts. They ended up buying a home in South Carolina to escape to over the worst winter months.

His father, D. J. Higginbotham, started Corrugated Container in 1963 and brothers Ronnie, Gerald and John help with the busy three-state operations in Winchester, east Tennessee and North Carolina. For several years, the business has been a sponsor of the annual Conservation Celebration, as well as a provider for the recyclable trash bins used at various events. The Blue Ridge Land Conservancy appreciates the support from the Higginbothams and Corrugated Container Corp.

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Board Member Spotlight Meet our fearless leader: Rupert Cutler

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ave you ever wondered who is behind the staff at the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy? Who makes the policy decisions? Who comes up with ideas for events, and helps at booths at local events? Our board of directors, of course!

Meet our board president, Dr. M. Rupert Cutler.

“Rupe,” as he’s known around the BRLC office, is an active member of several organizations in the Roanoke area, including the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke.

Rupert credits his parents for his life of devotion to wildlife and wild lands. In the days immediately following World War II, his father, a Ford Motor Company chemical engineer, and his mother, a musician and poet, used every opportunity to take Rupert and his brother to state parks and forests. There they would camp in the overgrown camping areas, not maintained due to the lack of mowing during war years. As

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a child, Rupert took full advantage of field trips offered by the Boy Scouts and the Audubon Youth of Detroit. The Audubon organization gave him a scholarship to attend its camp in Maine, where he studied birds and marine life. In college, Rupert worked with the Forest Service in Idaho as well as the Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska.

…for people and the planet.

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Because of his exposure to the natural environment as a child, he pursued a degree in wildlife management, and a doctorate in natural resources economics. These studies culminated in executive positions with national conservation organizations and public agencies, including the position of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture as part of President Carter’s administration.

If you’re ever around downtown Roanoke and happen to see this active retiree, make sure to say “hello” and thank him for his hard work as our board president.

Saving Land...

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ome people joke that you can’t really save the planet—it will be here, verdant and teeming with life, long after the people are gone. So the environmental movement isn’t really about saving the planet—it’s about saving the people.

Rupert Cutler, BRLC President

We only partially agree. Nature has a right to exist, and plants, animals and other species have the right to not only live but flourish. Those animals include people. The work of your land conservancy is about people. It’s about you: what you love, what you need to enjoy your lives and be fulfilled, and what you want your grandchildren to see and fall in love with, too.

conservation Celebration 2014 Honoring Liz Belcher and Mr. and Mrs. Ingram

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motions ran high as the awardees shared their stories at this year’s Conservation Celebration. Liz Belcher, the recipient of the A. Victor Thomas Environmental Stewardship Award shared her experiences as a youth and about the 18 years of work she’s dedicated to the Roanoke Greenways system. In Liz’s eyes, it’s not about her, but about “all of us” working towards the goal of completing the trails.

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce and Elaine Ingram of Troutville received the Land Saver Award. Bruce touched every heart in the room as he talked about his grandfather and the

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Through programs like our school garden clubs, Bay Day, birding hikes and more, we’re changing lives by showing people young and old the importance of land and water, and how our food, our physical health and mental well-being depend on saving the most special places in Virginia’s Blue Ridge. We do that by helping local farmers and rural residents save their land from overdevelopment with conservation agreements that last forever, and which we promise to defend.

loss of the family lands. He told the story about saving his nickels and dimes with the goal of one day buying family property for his grandfather.

The celebration of conservation stories included a local foods dinner prepared by Blue Ridge Catering, as well as local beer, wine, and cider. Festivities peaked with a live auction led by Jim Woltz of Woltz and Associates. The Blue Ridge Land Conservancy was able to raise almost $30,000 from the festivities. This money will go towards keeping our area rural and beautiful.

We hope this annual report does more than show facts and figures. We hope it shows that we’re doing the hard work that matters to you. If you read your name among our list of donors, pat yourself on the back. You’ve helped save land— for people and the planet.

BRLC President Rupert Cutler and A. Victor Thomas Environmental Stewardship award winner Lucy Ellet at the 2013 Conservation Celebration

Dr. M. Rupert Cutler President of the Board of Trustees

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2013-2014 Giving List

2013–14 Highlights LUCY ELLETT RECEIVES VIC THOMAS AWARD AL & NANCY HAMMOND: 2013 LANDSAVERS GIFT IN WILL FOREVER PROTECTS FRANKLIN COUNTY FARM

KIWANIS GRANT TO BRLC TESTS WESTSIDE STUDENTS’ GREEN THUMBS

The land conservancy was excited to award its A. Victor Thomas Environmental Stewardship Award to Mrs. Lucy Ellet at the Conservation Celebration in September 2013. Mrs. Ellet was one of the founding members of the Western Virginia Land Trust. We were also pleased to award the Land Saver Award to Mr. and Mrs. Al and Nancy Hammond for their work in conserving their farm in the Vinton area. The Celebration featured a gourmet local foods dinner, live music, and a silent auction, and raised over $35,000 to fund BRLC’s conservation work.

In 2013, BRLC received a gift of 95 acres of beautiful farm and forestland in the will of the late Mary Jamison of Boone’s Mill. The land conservancy carried out Mrs. Jamison’s wishes that the land be used “for environmental purposes only” by protecting it with a conservation agreement between BRLC and the new owner, ensuring the property will always remain as it is today.

Thanks to a $1,000 grant from the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke, BRLC was able to start a new after-school community garden club at Westside Elementary School. Volunteers from the Virginia Tech-Carilion School of Medicine and the Kiwanis Club volunteered on a brisk March day to construct the raised beds.

These would be used to grow tomatoes, corn, beans, and flowers which the Westside students cared for.

The following individuals, families, companies, and foundations donated to the Blue Ridge Land Conservancy in the fiscal year 2014 (from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014).

Our deepest thanks go to all of these supporters who make our work possible.

Benefactor

($5,000.00 to $100,000.00)

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated Conservation Celebration Sponsor Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. Frank Ellett In honor of Sandy Light Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. George A. Kegley Mr. & Mrs. Bill Lemon Mr. David N. Maxson & Mrs. Nancy O. Gray The Morris Family Foundation Mr. Peter Via William M. Claytor Family Memorial Fund of Foundation for Roanoke Valley Estate of Mary Spangler Jamison

Conservator

($2,500.00 to $4,999.00)

Elbert, Evelyn and Karen Waldron Charitable Foundation

Sustainer

($1,000.00 to $2,499.00)

2014–15 Goals Raise the remaining funds needed to complete the Stewardship Fund for Land Trust Alliance reaccreditation

$ COMPLETE THE STEWARDSHIP FUND

CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THE CONSERVATION CELEBRATION

Continue to improve the Conservation Celebration by adding more table captains, keeping the live and silent auction and raising the quality of auction items

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Consider a year-round series of programs such as guided hikes and bird walks for the public to raise awareness and interest in the land conservancy

CONSIDER OUTDOOR PROGRAMS FOR THE PUBLIC

COMPLETE & IMPLEMENT STRATEGIC LAND CONSERVATION PLAN

Complete the Strategic Land Conservation Plan and begin to implement it

Work to expand the Bay Day concept to the James and New River watersheds, and involve more school districts.

GROW “BAY DAY” TO INCLUDE MORE SCHOOLS

EXPAND GARDEN CLUB PROGRAM

Using grant funds, start a new school garden club at Highland Park Elementary School. Pending new grant funds, start locations outside of the City of Roanoke.

Boxley Materials Company Conservation Celebration Sponsor Brandon Oaks Conservation Celebration Sponsor Brown Edwards and Company, LLP Conservation Celebration Sponsor Cox Communications Conservation Celebration Sponsor Dixon, Hubard, Feinour, Brown, Inc Conservation Celebration Sponsor Dr. Linda E. Durham Ph.D. Forest Rest Natural Cemetary Conservation Celebration Sponsor Mr. F. Fulton Galer Glenn, Feldmann, Darby & Goodlatte Conservation Celebration Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. William M. Hackworth Mr. Roger B. Holnback Mr. & Mrs. James W. Jennings Jr. The Kiwanis Club of Roanoke Lanford Brothers Co. Conservation Celebration Sponsor Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Long Jr. Mr. Jon L. Manetta McLaughlin and Moran, Inc Member One Federal Credit Union

Miller, Long & Associates, Inc. Conservation Celebration Sponsor Race for Open Space Sponsor Norfolk Southern Foundation Orvis Roanoke County Rockydale Quarries Corporation Conservation Celebration Sponsor Steel Dynamics Roanoke Bar Division Conservation Celebration Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. David L. Wallenborn Western Virginia Environmental and Social Trust Foundation

Steward

($500.00 to $999.00)

Appalachian Power Co. Conservation Celebration Sponsor B. Wilson Porterfield, Jr. Foundation Charitable Contribution Dr. Karen L. Barnhart Dr. M. Rupert Cutler Earth Environmental and Civil. Inc. Conservation Celebration Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. William D. Elliot Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Feldmann Fellers Family Limited Partnership Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Frantz Dr. & Mrs R. Wayne Gandee In memory of Louise B. Everett Mr. & Mrs. Ray L. Garland Mr. & Mrs. Scott A. Graeff Mr. Robert H. Hunt Mr. & Mrs. David A. Hurt Ms. Cynthia Petzold and Lowell Inhorn Mr. David A. Jenkins Mr. Frank M. Lacy Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Edmund M. Lesko Mr. Sam B. Long Mr. & Mrs. William A. Nash Natural Awakenings Magazine Race for Open Space Sponsor Roanoke Animal Hospital Conservation Celebration Sponsor Roanoke Gas Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op Roanoke Outside and Roanoke Regional Partnership Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. Paul D. Ross Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David M. Savitz

Ms. Janet Scheid & Mr. Bud LaRoche Mr. & Mrs. Glenn O. Thornhill Jr. Valley Bank N.A. Conservation Celebration Sponsor Ms. Betty Gill Ware Woltz and Associates, Inc. Conservation Celebration Sponsor

Associate

($250.00 to $499.00)

Adams Construction Co. Race for Open Space Sponsor Ms. Jane M. Ambrose-Cosby In memory of Helen Gray and John Wesley Mills Mr. Paul L. Angermeier and Mrs. Elizabeth Stinson Dr. Jean A. Smith and Dr. Michael A. Berry Blue Ridge Copier Ms. Mary Brewer In memory of Priscilla Clifford City of Roanoke Parks and Recreation Race for Open Space Sponsor Mrs. Murray K. Coulter Mr. and Mrs. Hugh and Reggie Craft Dominion Electric Vehicles Race for Open Space Sponsor Draper Aden Associates, Inc. Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. G. Franklin Flippin Mr. W. Heywood Fralin Mr. & Mrs. James S. Frantz Jr. Global Metal Finishing Mr. Joe Hanning Race for Open Space Sponsor Interactive Achievement Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. Robert P. Kegley In honor of George Kegley Mr. & Mrs. Talfourd H. Kemper Mr. Robert B. Lambeth Jr. Mrs. Anna L. Lawson Mr. & Mrs. W. Tucker Lemon Local Roots Cafe, LLC Mr. & Mrs. Kirk Ludwig Mr. & Mrs. J. Granger Macfarlane Martin’s German Service Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. J. Mark McClain Dr. & Mrs. John R. Merten Moore-Harvey, Inc. dba Green-Up Winter 2014–2015

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2013-2014 Giving List Race for Open Space Sponsor Mrs. Elizabeth H. Muse Mr. & Mrs. Harry G. Norris Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group Race for Open Space Sponsor Mrs. Carol W. Pruner Dr. Quinn Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Quinn Mr. Bob & Joel Richert Mr. Timothy C. Shank Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Smeltzer Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Smith Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Temeles Valley Beautiful In honor of Lucy Ellett Mr. Bill Wellborn & Mrs. Nan Mahone Mr. & Mrs. John Williamson Mrs. Robert W. Woody Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Yost

Friend

($100.00 to $249.00)

Accelerated Ecommerce LLC In honor of Frank and Lucy Ellet Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Adkins In memory of Charles Parry Appalachian Stone & Iron Race for Open Space Sponsor Dr. Karen Mays Asbury Mr. R C Balzer Dr. & Mrs A. Sidney Barritt III Mr. Larry R. Bechtel Ms. Elizabeth H. Belcher Ms. Laura E. Benjamin Mr. & Mrs. Thompson Berdeen Mr. & Mrs. Phillip S. Boggs Mr. David A Bowers Mrs. Billy Branch Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence L. Bright Mr. & Mrs. Mervin W. Brower Mr. & Mrs. Guy W. Buford Ms. Deborah Cates Mr. and Mrs. George Chatneuff Ms. Beth A. Christopoulos City of Roanoke Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Clark The Honorable and Mrs. Glen E. Conrad Copperhead Plumbing and Heating Race for Open Space Sponsor Ms. Anne S. Covert Mr. & Mrs. Milton P. Danner Davenport and Company, LLC Race for Open Space Sponsor 12

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Ms. Amy K. DeHart Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Denton Dr. Charlotte D. Dietz Dr. & Mrs. F. Joseph Duckwall Mr. & Mrs. John and Hoye Duckworth Mr. & Mrs. Gary R. Duerk Mr. Gregory Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Egbert Mr. Scott Fauber Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Beth Finkler Mr. & Mrs. Broaddus C. Fitzpatrick Mr. & Mrs. D. Norris Ford Mr. & Mrs. David L. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Lanier Frantz Mr. & Mrs. J. Randolph Garrett III Mr. & Mrs. David R. Goode The Honorable & Mrs. Robert W. Goodlatte Mr. Gunther J. Greimel Race for Open Space Sponsor Dr. & Mrs J. Bruce Hagadorn Ms. Leigh Ann Hammerbacher In memory of Ann Burnley Dr. & Mrs A.B. Hammond III In honor of Mrs. Albin Hammond II and Dr. and Mrs. Hammond Mr. F. Staley Hester Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred Buford Hitz Mr. William E. Holman Mr. James E. Howell Mr. James Huizenga and Mrs. Susan Koch Mr. & Mrs. William J. Hunley Mr. & Mrs. W. Arnold Hurt Mrs. Reginald K. Hutcherson Mr. Bruce E. Ingram Mr. & Mrs. James F. Johnson Johnson, Ayers & Matthews, P.L.C. Race for Open Space Sponsor Dr. David C. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Kattenbraker In honor of Mitch and Bobbie Bowman Ms. Mary L. Kegley In honor of George Kegley Dr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Keller Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Kelly Kennard-Pace Co., Inc. Plumbing, Heating, AC & Electrical Race for Open Space Sponsor Ms. Claire Kennett Ms. Annette S. Kirby Law Office of E.W. Lautenschlager Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. James B. Lee Ms. Barbara Jean Lewis Ms. Sandy Light Mr. & Mrs. Joseph D. Logan III

2013-2014 Giving List Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Lynn Mr. Brett F. Magenbauer Mr. & Mrs. Brooke Mallory In memory of Frank C. Martin, Jr. Mr. Donald J. Marsille Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Martin Mr. & Mrs. Peter McChesney Mr. & Mrs. George A. McLean Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Miller Mr. Philip E. Montano In memory of Marie A. Montano Mr. Michael T. Morrissett Mr. & Mrs. G. Marshall Mundy Mr. Patrick J. O’Brien Oak Grove Insurance Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. John H. Pharis Mr. Cornelis & Jacob A. Pieterman Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Pitner Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Porter III Mr. & Mrs. Glen Proehl RAC Construction Company Race for Open Space Sponsor Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club SERVPRO Race for Open Space Sponsor Mrs. Mary Lou Shaffer Mr. Paul K. Simms In memory of L. Earl Simms Mr. and Mrs. Eddie and Missy Smith In honor of Broaddus Fitzpatrick Mr. Jeff Smith Mrs. Daphne D. Turner Mr. Robert L. Turner Mr. & Mrs. D. Kyle Umberger III Ms. Tamara Vance and Andrew Kassoff Mr. L. Robert Vaughan Mr. & Mrs. Loren H. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Waters Mr. & Mrs. Charles and Joyce Waugh Mr. Charles Webb Dr. & Mrs. Jesse A. Webster Mr. John P. Whittle Dr. Dale A. Wickstrum Mr. Ryland A. Winston Jr. Dr. & Mrs. John R. Wood Mrs. Emily A. Woodrum

Supporter

($50.00 to $99.00)

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Airheart In honor of Mrs. S. Wilson Blain Ananda Farm LLC

Mr. & Mrs. Brady H. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Ayling Mr. Lee P. Baker In memory of Bob Kulp Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Ballas Sherman R. and Ruth S. Bamford Mr. Kevin L. & Nicole Bocock Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. W. Chan Bolling Ms. Nancy A. Bourne Mr. & Mrs. John W. Boyle Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John P. Bradshaw Ms. Sarah King Capps Ms. Nancy A. Chapin Mr. & Mrs. James L. Crowgey Mr. & Mrs. Mark Currie Mr. John B. D’Alessandro Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. Vernon M. Danielsen Mr. & Mrs. H. Lawrence Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Curtis E. Davis Jr. Ms. Lynn M. Davis Ms. Pauline B. Dickens Rev. & Mrs. Park P. Dickerson Ms. Ruth Alden Doan Mr. & Mrs. David R. Dougherty Ms. Jeanne M. Duddy In memory of Kevin Duddy Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Ehrich Mrs. Nancy Felch III Mr. & Mrs. Fred Fevrier Ms. Doris Flandorffer Mr. and Mrs. Richard Normand and Elaine Fleck Mr. & Mrs. James A. Ford Ms. Sharon H. Foster In honor of Arlie, Sam, and Lucy Harper Mr. & Mrs. Robert Allen Garland Ms. Ann H. Garst In honor of Lucy Ellett Ms. Ellen W. Glover Mr. & Mrs. Kossen Gregory Mr. Sanford & Mrs. Holly Peters Gurian Mr. & Mrs. Henry W. Herzog Jr. Mr. Michael R. Hicks Rev. & Mrs. Paul R. Hinlicky Mr. & Mrs. William Robert Horton In honor of Nikki H. O’Brien Mrs. Margaret Hunter Wade In honor of Jay Turner Mr. Douglas C Jackson Mrs. Joyce C. Jaeger In memory of Robert Jaeger Mr. & Mrs. R. Devereaux Jarratt

Mrs. Susan Jennings In honor of Rupert Cutler’s 80th Birthday Ms. Lori Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Kemnitz Mr. & Mrs. Reif and Susan Kessler Mr. Marc Killingstad Ms. Kathleen C. Koomen Mr. Frosty M. Landon Mr. Peter A. Lewis In honor of George and Louise Kegley, Broaddus Fitzpatrick and Sandy Light Ms. Alice Loftin In honor of Lucy Ellett Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Lorence Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Lovegrove Edna Lutz Dr. & Mrs James L. Lynde Ms. Betty Marr Mr. Gene Marrano Ms. Greta Matos Mr. Daniel B. Miles Mill Mountain Garden Club Dr. & Mrs J. Milton Miller Mr. Robert H. Minor Dr. & Mrs. Chimer D. Moore Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David M. Naff Dr. & Mrs. W. T. Norris Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Adair Obenshain Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Osterhoudt Ms. Rebecca S. Perdue Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Reed Dr. & Mrs John W Robinson Ms. Vicki Tuke Rose Mr. Walton I. Rutherfoord Mr. Philip O. Sheridan Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Spangler Mr. Glenn T. Stafford Mr. & Mrs. Wayne G. Strickland Sugar Loaf Garden Club Theodore WM Bayler and Ardith J Bayler Living Trust Ms. Paula P. Thompson Mr. Paul R. Thomson Jr. Mr. Maurice C. Turner Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie L. Wade Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Walters Ms. Fayetta P. Weaver In honor of Mark and Whitney Feldmann Dr. & Mrs Jackson R Webster Mrs. Betty K. Weddle Mr. John Wiercioch Mr. Mr. & Mrs. Don Witt Ms. Suzanne R Wright Ms. Mary Jane Zody

Member

(under $50)

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Adams Mr. James W. Arend Mr. James Atkin Ms. Jodie Barbour Ms. Pat Barton Dr. & Mrs Walter S. Barton Dr. & Mrs. Vincent T. Basile Mr. Derek L. Batey Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Baynton Ms. Norma L. Beckner Mr. & Reverend Michael L. Bentley In honor of sons Alex and Matthew The Honorable William Bestpitch Mr. Dan Black & Mrs. Laura Delo Ms. Janie Blanchard Mrs. Betsy Bohannon Ms. Crystal Bowden Ms. Michelle Bowles Mr. and Mrs. Danny Brabham Mr. Ken Briggs Mr. & Mrs. C. Whitney Brown Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dan W. Brown Ms. Patricia A. Buck Ms. Paula L. Bumgarner Mr. & Mrs. Michael Burgoon Ms. Cora Carpenter Mr. David Carr Jr. Ms. Anne Cepeda Mr. Sakeeta Chantal Ms. Marion Childress Ms. Christine Chisholm Ms. Janice R. Clabuesch Ms. Eleanor M. Clark Mr. Samuel Edmond Coffey In honor of Rachel Coffey Ms. Betty Coleman Ms. Dawn Corcoran Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Covington Ms. Mary Dail Ms. Karen Dawes In memory of Gloria Dawes Mr. & Mrs. Carl B. Dietrich Jr. Ms. Martha Jamison Dillard Ms. Lindsey Dooley Ms. Maxine Drewry Mrs. Pat P. Ebbett Mrs Theodosia M Evans Exxonmobil Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Craig Favor Mr. Christopher Finley Mr. and Mrs. Robert and Joanna Finton Mrs. Helen C. Fitzpatrick Winter 2014–2015

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2013-2014 Giving List Rosemarie Flannary Ms. Maxine Fraade Ms. Wileina F. Furrow Rev. and Mrs. Tupper Garden Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Gilbarte Jr. Race for Open Space Sponsor Ms. Anne Marshall Gillespie Mr. and Mrs. R. Gene and Laura Goley Mr William D Goode Ms. Kari Goyer Mr. James R. Gray Mr. & Mrs. J. Patrick and Mary Field Green Ms. Carolyn Haase Mrs. Jane R. Haddad Ms. Heidi Hannapel In honor of the hardworking staff at BRLC Ms. Mary Ann Hansen Mr. James A. Hare Jr. Rev. C. Nelson Harris Mr. & Mrs. James D. Harshfield Drs. David and Cheryl Hartman Allison Hegan Mr. John Heil Mr. Darrell Hensley Sam Hensley Mr. Carl Hill Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David P. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Brian K. and Martha Hooker Ms. Renee Howell Raymond and Faye Hundley Mrs. Geneva K. Jenkins In memory of John Jenkins Jr. Mr. Edward F. Jennings Jr. Mr. & Mrs. McMillan H. Johnson Mr. Pegram Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. Clayton G. Jones Mr. Richard H. Jones Mr. Mark D. Joyce Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. Daniel E. Karnes Mr. Richard F. Kegley Karen Konchinsky In honor of Rose Taylor Ms. Liz Landry Ms. Abbey Laprad Mr. & Mrs. David L. Lemon Ms. Sheri Lemon Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. LeNoir Jr. Mr. Robert E. Lockhart Mr. James T. Lucas Jr. Ms. Holly Marrow Ms. Lindsay Miller Ms. Rachel Miller Mr. William J. Modica Ms. Julia Mooney 14

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Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Mullen Jr. Ms. Abigail Murchison Race for Open Space Sponsor Ms. Vivian Chang Norkus Ms. Patricia Oney Mr. & Mrs. James G. Overholser Ms. Emily Painter Ms. Shannon Patsel Ms. Kristen Pauley Mr. & Mrs. William C. Pavord Ms. Kelly Perry Ms. Karen Peters Ms. Whitney Pierce Mr. Carleton Plaisted Dr. Dorothy T. Potter Jr. Ms. Penny Price Mr. & Mrs. Michael Reilly Mr. & Mrs. Gene R. Richter Ms. Regina Rierson Roanoke Valley Garden Club Mr. Timmy Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Rohrback Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Shawver Mr. Frank Shinault Ms. Charlotte M. Sieber Mr. John R. Simmerman Ms. Gloria Simmons Mrs. Kathleen Simpkins Mr. Gregory Skinner Mr. Mike Stanley Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. Jack Steehler Race for Open Space Sponsor Mr. William Stephens Ms. Katherine E. Swarthout Mr. Frederick D. Swartzendruber Mr. & Mrs. William Tanger Mr. Lee Taylor In honor of Broaddus Fitzpatrick The Luminescence Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Robin Thomas Mr. & Mrs. William A. Thomasson Mr. Barry Thornton Ms. Karen Vanburen Mr. & Mrs. William G. Wall II Mr. Michael Walton Mr. & Mrs. W. Keith Weinwurm Ms. Virginia K. West Mr. Harry W. Woolridge Mr. Thomas Wright

Stewardship Fund

Mr. & Mrs. Frank and Lucy Ellet Fellers Family Limited Partnership Mr. F. Fulton Galer

Financial Summary Mr. & Mrs. Bill and Ann Hackworth Mr. Robert H. Hunt Mr. David Maxson and Mrs. Nancy O. Gray Mr. & Mrs. John and Linda Pharis Ms. Janet Scheid & Mr. Bud LaRoche

In Memory of Gladys Cutler

Ms. Barbara Jean Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Les Rowe Mr. & Mrs. Randy Vanover Mr. & Mrs. William M. Hackworth The Honorable William Bestpitch Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Bayler Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Waters Mrs. Anna L. Lawson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Ellett Mr. & Mrs. George A. Kegley Ms. Janet Scheid & Mr. Bud LaRoche Mr. Pegram Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Quinn Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Feldmann Mr. Daniel E. Karnes Mr. & Mrs. Jimmie L. Wade City of Roanoke Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Smeltzer Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Clark Ms. Anne S. Covert Drs. David and Cheryl Hartman Mr. Ken Briggs Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Spangler Mr. & Mrs. Vernon M. Danielsen Ms. Katherine E. Swarthout Mr. James Huizenga and Mrs. Susan Koch Mr. & Mrs. John H. Pharis Ms. Janice R. Clabuesch Mr. & Mrs. John P. Bradshaw Mr. & Mrs. Charles and Joyce Waugh

Income Income

Amount

Investments $10,923.34 Contributions $78,798.19 Conservation Celebration $46,765.97 Stewardship Fund Donations $101,047.58 Race for Open Space $7,660.00 Misc $4,151.74 Kroger $3,144.48

Total Income: $252,491.30

In-Kind Donations

Jim Woltz Office space and utilities Blue Ridge Catering Catering for Conservation Celebration Fleet Feet Race for Open Space Homestead Creamery Race for Open Space The Roanoke Star Race for Open Space

4.30% 31.20% 18.50% 29.90% 3.00% 1.60% 1.20%

misc.

2%

3%

Miscellaneous

Race for Open Space

1% Kroger

31%

4%

Contributions

Investments

19%

Conservation Celebration

30%

Stewardship Fund Donations

Expenses 13%

Community Outreach

31%

Management

Grants

Chesapeake Bay Trust Botetourt County “Bay Day”, Fall 2013 Land Trust Alliance Excellence Enhancement program grants

Percent

expenses Management Landowner Education Stewardship Development Community Outreach

14%

Landowner Education

Total Expenses:

Amount

Percent

$52,111.31 $23,534.14 $38,663.23 $31,939.19 $21,853.00

31.00% 14.00% 23.00% 19.00% 13.00%

$168,101.00

23%

19%

Stewardship

Development

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