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“Blue Ridge to the
Bay” program set
Ragged Mountain Resource Center’s “Blue Ridge to the Bay” Speaker Series presents: “Insights into Our Local Plant Diversity” featuring Professor Woodward Bousquet and students, Environmental Studies Program, Shenandoah University.
The political boundary between the counties of Rappahannock and Culpeper is firmly drawn. However, local plants and animals cross this line in the Blue Ridge foothills freely.
Not only do species from the two counties mix, the foothills area is a zone where mountain species meet those from the Piedmont. The result is what scientists call biodiversity, which simply means an unusually high number of different kinds of animals and plants.
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