Stadium Woods is a precious resource
Sandwiched between Blacksburg and Lane Stadium at Virginia Tech is a hillside covered by a 15-acre, old-growth, white-oak forest known as Stadium Woods. These types of old forests once covered much of Virginia. Now, it is one of the rarest forest communities in the eastern United States.
Continue reading John Seiler’s commentary.
2 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post.
“These types of old forests once covered much of Virginia. Now, it is one of the rarest forest communities in the eastern United States.”
Why should we get rid of something so natural and now rare as the woods near the stadium. There is no legitimate reason for our football team to need an indoor practice facility in the same area as the woods. I’m sure they will not benefit enough from an indoor facility right beside the stadium to actually show a noticeable difference.
If we actually destroy the woods just for another football facility then we deserve to be called nothing but a “football” school as that is exactly all we care about. Why not focus on our intellectual programs and become more renowned for other reasons besides football.
Comment by Brandon Plunkett — April 4, 2012 @ 4:07 pm
The old growth woods are serving some purpose as we speak. We walked through it last week picking up trash, 12-20 beer cans, condums, toilet tissue, some old newspapers and a well warn blanket.
What else do you want to do with the woods?
Comment by Jim Overfelt — June 2, 2012 @ 9:39 am