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North Shenandoah Mountain Project Begins

4/21/2014

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VWC's Mark Miller and North River District Ranger Elwood Burge kicked off a large landscape level planning project for North Shenandoah Mountain by leading a field trip to the Slate Lick area on April 10.  The field trip was attended by about 25 agency officials and individuals representing diverse interests, including horseback riding, game management, timber, and preservation.   The main topic was invasive species in the Slate Lick area: mile-a-minute, autumn olive, Japanese stilt grass and tree of heaven, and options to control them. The group also discussed trails in the Slate Lick area, popular with equestrians, and how to improve habitat in the clearings at Slate Lick and near Hogpen Lake.  

This field trip is the first of several field trips to identify management activities in the North Shenandoah Mountain project area, which includes a portion of the Lee Ranger District.  


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Anne Nielsen
6/9/2014 11:30:31 am

This is a splendid beginning to protecting Shenandoah Mt from further damage, , and I applaud Mark and others who helped pull this together. Invasive species management is a problem throughout the GWNF. I wil be interested in learning about proposed approaches to that. Bravo!

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