Summer 2014 Forest Report

Richard Wilson said he heard from a new US Forest Service lands specialist in early summer 2014 that traffic barriers barring access to the Wilson Brothers Forest had been removed. Now the Wilsons and the Forest Service are working on “permanent easements with each...

Summer 2014 Forest Report

Sharing responsibility for Chestnut Ridge Preserve continues to reap benefits for the Foundation from its cooperative agreement with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation in monitoring the forest’s conservation. Natural Heritage staffers visited...

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October 2013

Former Foundation staffer Jeff Smith visited the forest in fall. He was accompanied by Lynchburg area Master Naturalists, so impressed by the forest that they wrote an article for their newsletter and spurred discussion of future collaboration between the Foundation...

Fall 2013

The never-ending efforts to eradicate invasives led to a discussion at the October forest owners luncheon of a fungus that kills Japanese stilt grass. However, forest owner Steve Brooks who made the presentation had to conclude that it’s not as yet a meaningful option...