Regional Campaigns
SVN and its partners are engaged in a range of regional issues that threaten our natural and historic resources, rural economy and traditional communities and landscapes.
Marcellus Gas Drilling
Interstate 81
The Network opposes plans for an $11.4 billion widening of I-81 to eight or more lanes, funded by tolls. We support affordable, lower-impact improvements, within the existing roadway, to address safety and congestion problems.
GW National Forest Plan
The Forest Service is rewriting GW National Forest's management plan, which will govern forest land uses for years to come. SVN and its members are engaged on two main points: watershed protection and banning industrial wind projects within the Forest.
Land Protection Funding
Secure consistent state-level funding for public and private land protection programs in the Shenandoah Valley.
Land Use & Water Quality
We work with community groups focused on land use and water quality to support the best possible local programs and planning for erosion and sediment control, storm water management and regional water planning.
Rural Transportation Reform
SVN promotes changes in federal, state and local road funding priorities to shift from costly and destructive loop roads, which fragment rural lands and foster sprawl development, to more efficient, affordable improvements to existing road networks.
Transmission Lines
We support the Piedmont Environmental Council’s campaign against two unnecessary high-voltage transmission lines through the northern Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont, which would connect our region to the oldest, dirtiest coal-fired power plants in the U.S
Wind Energy
While the local conservation community supports renewable energy development, impacts of forest clearing and road building for wind turbine towers and transmission pose significant threats to wildlife and ecosystems along the region's ridgelines
