Author Archives: Director

The researchers pulled on waders and boots, gathered nets and buckets and walked through the Grove to the Shenandoah River. The water flowed steadily, the light glancing off the riffles as they stepped down the embankment next to a sycamore tree whose roots provided …

The white Department of Forestry trucks lined Kauffmans Mill Road as personnel prepared for the third controlled burn at the farm.  Fuel was added to flame throwers, the parameters of the burn area assessed and the bulldozer unloaded, as the fire management …

  A chilly breeze whipped across the field, moving through the tall Indian grass but the tufted titmouse didn’t notice as they cavorted gleefully around the branches of the sycamore, chattering excitedly as they chased each other with wild aerobatics. I …