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Southwest Virginiaâs Mount Rogers High Country offers a unique and one of the most spectacular landscapes in our region. Even though it sits in the heart of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the experience is more similar to that of a western backdrop, such as Wyoming or Montana.
It is adorned with rugged rocky summits, expansive grass-covered meadows, magnificent fir and spruce forests, beautiful tumbling streams, and perhaps most distinctively â herds of wild ponies.
Centrally located in the vast Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, the High Country has more than 25,000 acres of the loftiest elevation in the state. At its southern border is also the Grayson Highlands State Park.
The following is an article about sex-crazed gypsy moths.
For those of you who are still with us, the U.S. Forest Service is taking public comments on a program â which it more discreetly describes as a âmating disruption treatmentâ â to eradicate an invasive species that feeds voraciously on foliage.
Gypsy moths also have a big appetite for sex. And unprotected moth sex leads to caterpillars, which have stripped oak trees and other hardwoods of their leaves in Southwest Virginia and beyond.
To protect the trees, the Forest Service is taking a family-planning approach to a problem that starts with the female gypsy mothâs inability to fly.