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time, pesticides and few other chemicals have not been used at all. Old pasture has grown up into trees, but timber has been cut periodically in ways that should, according to theory, have enhanced attraction to ground-nesting birds.
Winters are, if anything, less harsh.
In my part of Rappahannock, the Ruffed Grouse population absolutely crashed in the summer and fall of 1974. The quail popula-, tion crashed in 1978.
I suspect one cause is air pollution, but no one in Virginia seems to be researching this (though, privately, scientists say they are inclined to agree). I do know that, in the late 1980s, EPA cited Front Royal’s Avtex plant (remember
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