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It’s a triple whammy for Shenandoah National Park: first the gypsy moths, then the drought, and now forest fires.
By Monday afternoon, a major fire on Dovel Mountain at the park’s western edge had consumed between 500 and 1,000 acres of timber and was still burning, with a combination of “extraordinarily dry conditions” and rough terrain hampering control efforts, according to Ranger Chuck Anabel.
The fire began last Tuesday with a lightning strike on private property about four miles southwest of Stanley in Page County. It smol
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