Megan Gallagher | Megan Inc. | 5618 Rock Hill Mill Road, The Plains,
Virginia 20198
Phone: 540-253-5162 | Fax: 540-253-5450
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Campaign Design Megan Gallagher designs advocacy campaigns for individual groups and multiple conservation partners at the local and regional level. Megan focuses on the issue, stakeholders and decision-makers, messages and tools needed to put grassroots power to work to achieve change in public policy. Some examples: Reasonable Solutions for the Future of I-81 Promoting low impact, cost effective alternatives to the Virginia Department of Transportation’s proposed $11 billion widening of I-81 to eight or more lanes in western Virginia. This campaign is ongoing.
George Washington National Forest Drinking Watershed Resolution Encouraging the U.S. Forest Service to specifically and comprehensively protect drinking watersheds in the GW National Forest management plan update. This campaign is ongoing.
Cedar Creek Mining Rezoning Grassroots advocacy to scale back plans to triple the size of a limestone mining operation adjacent to the Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historic Park in the northern Shenandoah Valley. This campaign is ongoing.
Endless Caverns Theme Park Proposal Campaign to scale back plans for a massive RV and theme park at the remote, rural Endless Caverns tourist site within Rockingham County’s agricultural reserve. We succeeded in blocking the theme park, but a major RV park was permitted through a zoning loophole, which was subsequently closed.
Pathways: Building a Local Initiative for Compatible Economic Development Engages citizens in planning to meet the needs of the community, economy and the environment. Successful initiatives were launched on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, coastal South Carolina and Georgia, the Saguache Valley in Colorado, Mathews County, Virginia and Adams County, Ohio.
WE Decide: the Future of the Eastern Shore Grassroots effort to ensure an impact study of toll rates on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel would not open the Eastern Shore’s rural landscape – an ecosystem of international significance – to sprawl development. Campaign succeeded.
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