
Protecting your land ensures that future generations will have a healthier, better quality of life.


Cacapon Watershed Collaborative
The Cacapon Watershed Collaborative (CWC) aims to protect the Cacapon and Lost Rivers Watershed’s valuable ecosystems and residents’ way of life. The Cacapon Watershed Conservation

GunBarrel Hunt Club
In 2023 the Land Trust and GunBarrel Valley Wild Life Preserve forged a partnership to protect 834 acres of vital hunting grounds in Hampshire County.
Listening to the Land
Landowner stories from the Cacapon & Lost Rivers Valley

Keeping West Virginia’s Water Wild, Woolly, and Wonderful
Farm owner Hope Yankey is surrounded by one-and-a-half year old trees, protected by white tree tubes, in this “re-wilding” area on Wilding Woolly Farm. Areas

An “Amazing Gift” of Land Conservation
When George Sempeles became the president of GunBarrel hunt club 10 years ago, he knew he wanted to protect the group’s Hampshire County, West Virginia,

A Dream for the Watershed
Easement grantor and longtime land trust supporter John Gavitt’s moving personal story, and his dream for our watershed.