New Book! "Geology Explained: Virginia's Fort Valley and Massanutten Mountains" (by Melson, ISBN 0-9744173-0-0, InterPress,U.S.A.) Available for $18.00 (includes postage and handling). Check or money order to W.G. Melson,Fort Valley Geology Study Center, 14056 Fort Valley Road, Fort Valley, VA. 22652. (Email for information [email protected])

• Intended for students, teachers, hikers, motorists and armchair geologists alike: A guide to a classic area of Appalachian geology in the eastern Valley and Ridge Province 65 miles west of the Washington D.C. Beltway
• 170 pages, and 100 Figures
• Combines descriptions of the landscapes, rocks, minerals, fossils, stratigraphy, folds and faults with basic principles of geology.
• Useful for enjoying, planning trips, and as a source of information for writing and teaching about the geology of this beautiful region of the Appalachians mainly in the George Washington National Forest

  July 3, 15, 24, 2000.This concerns the 2000 gypsy moth outbreaks in the George Washington National Forest, Shenandoah County, Virginia (it is no longer news)

  June 4, 2000.The previous event concerns the death of an unusually large American Chestnut tree on North Mountain near Big Schloss, also in George Washington National Forest, Shenandoah County, Virginia

  

  Location of site of Chestnut Blight and Gypsy Moth Stories

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  Note 070300. Published July 3,2000, with occasional corrections/improvements after that. Additions on 10/22/00.

  View from Shenandoah National Park westward to distant resistant sandstone ridges of the Silurian Massanutten Formation that rims the Fort Valley, Shenandoah County, VA. Click to enlarge