Our Winter 2020 issue of The River Runs is now available. This month, we feature an update from Board of Directors President Dick Brooks about the upcoming Atlantic Coast Pipeline Supreme Court hearing taking place in February. Executive Assistant Lynne Griffith recaps our 2018-2019 Annual Campaign, announces our upcoming new website and recalls our October Walton Tract cleanup. Rob Slusser, a senior at Radford University in the Geospatial Science Department, presents a long-form essay supporting his May, 2019 presentation from our Annual Meeting about the invasive Purple Loosestrife. Dave Peters recaps a special geological finding from our fall group ascent of Griffith Knob and Nan Wellborn shares the $200 winner of the Cowpasture River Preservation Association Award for Best Cowpasture River or Bullpasture River: Any Medium at the Bath County Art Show.
Explore these rare habitats and their unique wildflowers at the Ft. Lewis shale barrens in Bath County. Shale barrens are unique environments that are endemic to the Allegheny Mountains and harbor some of the state’s rarest plants.