by WhiteOak | Jun 1, 2014 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
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...
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 | Jun 1, 2012 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
This 500-Year Forest is also one the Virginia’s Natural Area Preserves. Two years ago the 500-Year Forest Foundation hired the Curtis Environmental to perform the Biotic Inventory for this forest. The Natural Heritage Division of the Virginia Department of...
by WhiteOak | Nov 1, 2010 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
The biotic inventory has recently been completed. The Virginia Natural Heritage will now develop a forest management plan. In the interest of determining carbon credits for his 2500 acre forest, Bob Gilvary hired Britt Boucher of Foresters, Inc. to compute the annual...
by WhiteOak | Jun 1, 2010 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
The results of the Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve spring biotic inventory conducted May 9-12 by Shay Garriock uncovered two rare animal species: a green salamander (Aneides aeneus) and a singing male Blackburnian warbler (Dendroica fusca). The Green salamander...
by WhiteOak | Nov 1, 2009 | Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve
In three-day sampling and observation periods this past June and again in September, Kevin Caldwell, botanist, identified 186 species of trees, shrubs, vines, herbs, grasses, and sedges. Shay Garriock, zoologist, identified 62 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, and...
