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By Marshall Jones
Special to the Rappahannock News
Along Highway 522, just south of Front Royal - or just over the mountain from Flint Hill and Chester Gap, if you’re coming from the other direction — sits one of the Virginia countryside’s most picturesque but least understood institutions.
From the road, you'll see a collection of red-roofed bams and buildings, lush pastures, and deciduous forests, cloistered behind miles of chain link fence and U.S. Government “No Trespassing” signs that encloses 3200 acres of rolling Blue Ridge foothills. Occasionally, there may be a tantalizing glimpse of an exotic wild animal, but there is no other hint of what now goes on inside this former U.S. Army Remount Station, which provided horses and mules for the Army from the early 1900s uptil the 1930s, and then served as World War II K-9 corps training facility and German prisoner-ofwar camp.
Today, this is home to more than 30 threatened species of live animals, and nearly 100 scientists, veterinarians, technicians, curators, keepers, and university students, all dedicated to studying the biology and the conservation needs of wild creature and their habitats.
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