Private Lands Partners Day 2025

Williamsburg, Virginia is located in eastern Virginia, on the outer edge of the upper Coastal Plain. In 2015, the North American Coastal Plain was recognized by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund as the 36th biodiversity hotspot in the world. This designation is based on the high number of endemic species and high degree of habitat loss. The North American Coastal Plain is a fire-dependent region and the native plant and animal species have evolved to depend upon fire. Numerous landowners, federal, state, and NGO partners have cooperated to reestablish these fire-dependent ecosystems on working lands, benefiting both the landowners, and game and non-game species such as red-cockaded woodpecker, turkey, and northern bobwhite. Additional Coastal Plain partners including Native American tribes including the Pamunkey, upper Mattaponi and Mattaponi have joined together to increase aquatic connectivity, reestablish riparian corridors and restore native fish populations including river herring, Atlantic sturgeon, American shad and other native fish and mussel species.

The main venue for 2025 meeting will be at Colonial Williamsburg.