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Helping Wildlife Cross I-40 in the Pigeon River Gorge

Black bears crossing I-40 are emblematic of the challenges facing wildlife as they try to navigate habitat sliced by major highways.

Curios: Pearl Rush on the Clinch River? Yes.

At the forefront of the 1895-1935 harvest was a young man without sight, who used his feet to feel for pearl-holding mussels.

Curios: Natural Vegetation Control – Goat Busters on the Land

Goats eat between 3 and 9% of their body weight each day, and put on a bit of a show while they do it.

Photo Essay: The Cold Science of Mountain Winter

Ice, snow and cold combine to create a wonderland.

Curios: Where Blue Ridge States Interlock

A Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia, cemetery may present the ultimate in knitted-together states: Legend has it that some are buried with their heads in Virginia and their feet in Tennessee.

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A female bear looks for the best opportunity to cross as her cubs surround her at the guardrail on I-64 in Virginia near the top of Afton Mountain where the Shenandoah National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway meet.

Helping Wildlife Cross I-40 in the Pigeon River Gorge

Black bears crossing I-40 are emblematic of the challenges facing wildlife as they try to navigate habitat sliced by major highways.
The promise of pearls was strong on the Clinch River for about 40 years, until the advent of hydroelectric dams and plastic buttons brought it to an end.

Curios: Pearl Rush on the Clinch River? Yes.

At the forefront of the 1895-1935 harvest was a young man without sight, who used his feet to feel for pearl-holding mussels.
Eager goats race toward their next meal on private property in Cismont, Virginia.

Curios: Natural Vegetation Control – Goat Busters on the Land

Goats eat between 3 and 9% of their body weight each day, and put on a bit of a show while they do it.
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Photo Essay: The Cold Science of Mountain Winter

Ice, snow and cold combine to create a wonderland.
The GEICO gecko was the star of an ad that played on the two-state nature of Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia’s State Street, the center of which is the border between the two states.

Curios: Where Blue Ridge States Interlock

A Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia, cemetery may present the ultimate in knitted-together states: Legend has it that some are buried with their heads in Virginia and their feet in Tennessee.
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