BRLC's service area contains ten counties: Bedford, Botetourt, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Montgomery, and Roanoke.
[2][3][4] The easement was designed to protect 14 miles (23 km) of the viewshed from the Appalachian Trail as well as a major source of the drinking water supply for the Roanoke Valley.
Carvins Cove Natural Reserve is the second-largest city park in the United States and the largest east of the Mississippi.
[5] In August 2008, BRLC worked to preserve more than a mile of a Chesapeake Bay tributary stream and a wetland the size of 16 football fields in Botetourt County, VA.[6] In April 2008, BRLC donated 145 acres (0.59 km2) adjacent to the Grassy Hill Natural Area Preserve to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.
[12] In 2009, BRLC received a Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award along with the City of Roanoke, VA, and the Virginia Outdoors Foundation for the preservation of Carvins Cove Natural Reserve.