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What Lake Moomaw offers today is, at least for one writer, “wildness on its own mountain terms.”

Far From the Madding Crowd

When Lake Moomaw opened in 1982 in Virginia’s Alleghany Highlands, 300,000 visitors were forecast to flock to its shores the next year. Today, Moomaw is a solitary, beautiful place with stories to share. If you’re willing to look closely and listen
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Mill Creek Stories: The Guy and the Goat

Can a relationship with a backyard animal evolve from cuisine to companion?
Patrick and Doggy

The Good Mountain Mutt – Close to You

Little changes in your daily routine can build into something that improves your whole life.
A male Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Birds of the Blue Ridge: Rose-breasted Grosbeak

These handsomely dressed males enjoy the sunflowers, safflowers and raw peanuts at feeders; consume a range of insects (including helping potato farms by eating harmful beetles and larvae); and feed on berries and fruits.
The mature nymphs of the periodic (17-year) cicada (Magicicada sp.) burrow up out of the ground before climbing onto a tree trunk or other object to begin metamorphosing into an adult.

One Cicada, Two Cicada, Three Cicada … More!

They’re back!
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Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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