by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Kolb 500-Year Forest
Just before hosting visitors during the Foundation’s annual meeting day in October, the owners finished a new Two Bridge Trail. Also, they added a fifth bridge to their network. This one takes hikers across a ravine carved out by Hurricane Camille. With substantial...
by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Sunshine 500-Year Forest
Tom Wieboldt, the Virginia Tech botanist associated with the Massey Herbarium, visited this forest twice in 2013. Among his findings: Black-seed ricegrass, a three-parted violet and a lot of Goldies fern. The last of the three was a new record for Montgomery County....
by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Biasiolli Forest
Owners are preparing for their forest’s first biotic inventory with great anticipation of finding rare plants. Tom Wieboldt, curator of vascular plants at Virginia Tech’s Massey Herbarium, will make a winter visit to the forest in early 2014. This will be the first of...
by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
Virginia’s Natural Heritage Program, a partner in protecting this forest, spent two days there on a monitoring visit in September. The Foundation expects to receive a report on the visit in early 2014 from Natural Heritage staffers Larry Smith and Irvine Wilson. The...
by WhiteOak | Sep 1, 2013 | Helms Phillips Forest
Former Foundation director Nancy Weiss recommended Austin Jamison, a Habitat Coordinator with Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, for forest work. He has met with Foundation officers and visited the Helms Phillips forest twice. He is taking aim at garlic mustard during the...
