Skyland Resort offers Wine Dinner Series starting in May
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The getaway season has started and Skyland Resort located in Shenandoah National Park has spiced up the weekend activities with a monthly wine dinner starting in May.
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Good intentions result in unfavorable outcomes for bears
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Two healthy young Virginia black bears face a lifetime of confinement – or worse – because they are habituated to humans. These bears have lost their natural distrust of people, likely because they were illegally held when they were small cubs.
Natural Bridge Park & Historic Hotel to host Earth & Arbor Day Celebration
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Virginia’s Natural Bridge Park & Historic Hotel is set to host its first Earth and Arbor Day Celebration on Saturday, April 26. The property has been fully reopened for just over a month and has seen renewed success under its new ownership through the Virginia Conservation Legacy Fund.
Shenandoah National Park hosts Wildflower Weekend
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Conserving native plants will be the focus of Shenandoah National Park’s 28th annual Wildflower Weekend, May 3 and 4, 2014. Visitors may see woodland beauties such as trillium, wild geranium, jack-in-the-pulpit, and a variety of others on naturalist-led hikes.
Earth Talk: Protecting the gray wolf
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The gray wolf is still considered “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). But a June 2013 proposal by the Obama administration to “delist” the animals—save for a small struggling population of Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico—could change that if finalized later this year.
Jenn Vervier: Clean water is key to business success
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Our company depends on clean water for our success. That’s why we’re pleased that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued new draft rules for enforcement of the Clean Water Act last month.
Gardeners can take simple actions to prevent spread of invasive species
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The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services urges residents to help stop the threat that invasive plants and pests pose to the state’s agricultural and natural resources.
Report: Tourism to Shenandoah National Park creates $76 million in economic benefit
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A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.2 million visitors to park name in 2012 spent $76 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 945 jobs in the local area.
Keystone pipeline on track for rejection?
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The State Department on Friday released its final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The report release begins a critical final stage where Secretary Kerry will provide a final recommendation to President Obama based on this report.
NWF: Obama climate goals call for all of the above on carbon pollution cuts
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President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address last night, reiterating his commitment to industrial carbon pollution standards and declaring, “Climate change is a fact.”
