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In a ceremony Thursday, the Radford Army Ammunition Plant said goodbye to one commander and welcomed another. Lt. Col. Russell Jones is the new Army leader. It s a biennial ritual
‘Endangered’ butterflies reintroduced at secret sites in Pennsylvania
Posted May 14, 2021
Tiny, first-instar caterpillars of the rare regal fritillary butterfly are placed on violet leaves on a state game lands. (Pennsylvania Game Commission photo)
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Efforts to re-establish populations of a once common, native butterfly that today persists in the East only at Fort Indiantown Gap in northern Lebanon County and the Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia – have gotten a boost this year.
The success rate for raising caterpillars of the regal butterfly in a lab at ZooAmerica in Hershey for release onto new sites in Pennsylvania has climbed from 15 percent to 60 percent, according to Mark Schwartz, a wildlife biologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs Environmental Office at Fort Indiantown Gap.
Public weighs in on Radford Army Ammunition Plant permitting
Area residents questioned why plant is still open burning hazardous waste
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RADFORD, Va. – On Wednesday night, people in the New River Valley got their chance to weigh in on operations at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.
The VA DEQ hosted a virtual public hearing Wednesday night. It’s required as part of the permitting that allows the plant to continue to open burn hazardous waste. The latest revision to the permit would require the plant to significantly reduce the amount of waste it burns.
About a half dozen people spoke, most with concerns about the environmental impacts. The plant has promised a new incinerator, but that is still more than a year out.