Item by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The Valley community is invited to the Shenandoah National Park this weekend to Save the Meadow. Activities begin at the Byrd Visitor Center auditorium at Big Meadows at 9 a.m. Saturday and 10:30 p.m. Sunday. The weekend includes presentations on control activities aimed at invasive species in the park followed …
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Park to spray to fight gypsy moths
Item by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net Shenandoah National Park is planning an aerial-spraying program aimed at suppressing exotic gypsy-moth caterpillars along sections of the Skyline Drive corridor. The program will begin in mid-May, a park spokesman said today. The effort is being undertaken because gypsy-moth levels have built over the course of the past two years …