September 2014 Forest Report

A note from Frank and Eleanor Biasiolli summarized goings on that contributed “to knowledge about and the health of our forest this year – biotic inventory, stilt grass control effort, deer exclusion fencing, permanent study plots.” The inventory yielded 231 species,...

Fall 2013

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...

February 2012

In 1991 Frank and Eleanor Biasiolli purchased 116 acres bounded by the Lynch River on the western border of Greene and Albemarle counties. East of Shenandoah National Park’s Ivy Creek overlook, the property is bisected by a small tributary of the Lynch River with...