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don’t kill plants immediately, they weaken the defenses, so that when something else comes along, gypsy moths or fungus ..., they often are killed off by something that wouldn’t have killed them,” she says.
“If it keeps up like this, it will become a public health issue,” says Haskell. “It will slow plant growth and complicate , problems people would otherwise have with allergies and asthma.”
He says, “We don’t want to lead people to believe this is just happening in the park. This is happening in Manassas and Winchester, Fauquier and everywhere else. It’s the same gunk you breath in the city.”
In addition, Wade says, the poisons are stored in soil, leaching into streams at intervals that researchers do not completely understand.
“I fully expect to see, over time, more significant effects,” Wade says.
Because mountain soils are much less resistant to acid than lowland soil, Haskell considers the park “the miner’s canary for Virginia. When the resources go to pot in the Shenandoah National Park, the rest of the state will soon follow.”
The other main concern, according to Wade, is nitrogen oxides, which, when they mix with other
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