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NATURAL HERITAGE
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Virginia's Precious Heritage

Virginia's Precious Heritage: A Report on the Status of Virginia's Natural Communities, Plants, and Animals, and a Plan for Preserving Virginia's Natural Heritage Resources

Also referred to as the Virginia Natural Heritage Plan, this 200-plus-page publication provides a comprehensive description of the Virginia Natural Heritage Program, the condition of the state’s biodiversity and goals for protecting the Commonwealth’s natural communities and rare species.

Click here (PDF, 3 megs) to view and/or download the Virginia’s Precious Heritage for free. It's an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format file. You'll need the free Acrobat reader to view or print the file. This file is approximately 3 megabytes and you may prefer to download the document before opening it. It will take several minutes to download on a typical 56k phone line connection. Cable modems will be much faster. To download first, right click on the link, select “save target as,” and file as you wish.

If you'd prefer a CD-ROM (indexed PDF, $5), just print, fill out this form and mail it in.