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Sempervirens February 2021 i SempervirensFebruary 2021 The Quarterly of the Virginia Native Plant Society Tyler Urgo, left, stands on a spit of land jutting into a large sinkhole pond at the Lyndhurst Ponds Natural Area Preserve in eastern Augusta County. A Shortleaf Pine (Pinus echinata) stands tall in a stretch of forest near a sinkhole pond. (Photos by Nancy Sorrells) Rare Sinkhole Ponds Protected in Lyndhurst A t first glance, a sinkhole pond rare natural communities. The 350-acre four days after Dominion pulled the plug might not appear that impressive Lyndhurst Ponds site was acquired from on the ACP, meaning that the property to a passerby. After all, it is just another Waynesboro Nurseries and the Quillen went from “endangered” to “protected” in swampy spot in the woods, right? Well family with funds from the DuPont just a few days. think again. These naturally occurring Natural Resource Damage Assessment In December, I had the opportunity wetlands, called Shenandoah Valley and Restoration settlement. to tour these ponds with members of the Sinkhole Ponds, contain some of the rarest “By protecting and restoring this rare Quillen family and Tyler Urgo, who is the habitats in the world, found only at the species habitat, we further our mission Shenandoah Valley Region Steward for western foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains to protect Virginia’s biodiversity and 13 Virginia Division of Natural Heritage in Rockbridge, Augusta, Rockingham, and address the ongoing global extinction properties in the Shenandoah Valley. Page counties. crisis,” noted Virginia Secretary of Natural Urgo is a 2004 Fort Defiance High The unique geology of this Resources Matt Strickler. The Lyndhurst School graduate. He went on to earn an landscape—the acidic soil of the alluvial acquisition put the number of natural undergraduate degree in environmental fan over top of deep limestone—and the area preserves at 65, covering over science at James Madison and a master’s intermittent wet conditions—sometimes 58,000 acres. degree in wildlife science at Texas A&M. the water is deep and sometimes the Although the rare flora and fauna Urgo talked about the special nature ponds are so dry that one can walk across found at the site don’t know it, they are of sinkhole ponds and laid out the them—means that very specific plants part of a special rags to riches story. management plan for the new preserve and animals have evolved to survive in The property would have been heavily for the next several years. these rare and rather harsh environments. impacted by the construction and “Shenandoah Valley Sinkhole Ponds This summer one of those globally operation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline tare unique and rare assemblages of rare habitats in eastern Augusta County (ACP), Dominion’s proposed 600-mile plants and some animals. Because of was added to the Virginia Department of long, 42-inch high-pressure natural gas he DuPont settlement, we have the Conservation and Recreation’s Natural line that would have cut through the opportunity(See Sinkhole to restore Ponds, our page natural 12) Area Preserve System, a program property. The July 2020 announcement of heritage here,” he explained. established in 1989 to protect Virginia’s the new natural area preserve came just 2 Sempervirens, February 2021 Push back against damaging invasives remain green long into the winter and From the President, have a competitive advantage over our natives by greening up early in Nancyagencies Vehrssuch as the Department of late winter or early spring. Japanese Conservation and Recreation and Honeysuckle has such a stronghold the Department of Agriculture and in our fields and forests that we are Consumer Services, nursery industry almost blind to it. The berries and representatives, and representatives vines of Oriental Bittersweet hang from conservation groups such as the from the tree trunks and English Ivy’s Virginia Native Plant Society. Delegate greenery corsets others. Some of you Bulova agreed to file a resolution that toil tirelessly to control these invasive hy are garden centers allowed would require the study group to plants and I applaud your efforts. It is to sell invasive plants? It seems meet to develop recommendations easy to become discouraged, but we an innocent enough question, and we by December 2021. Depending on the know you are making a difference. hear it quite a bit. In fact, someone findings of the study group, legislation On another subject, did you enjoy asked Delegate David Bulova of Fairfax can be filed accordingly for the 2022 the VNPS annual meeting in September Wthat question on a virtual town hall General Assembly session. by Zoom? Chris Ludwig’s Virtual Tour meeting this past summer. The answer The General Assembly has a short of Virginia’s Natural Area Preserves was is complex, and, of course, money is session this year beginning January 13 the next best thing to being there. The involved. Unfortunately, certain invasive so legislation will move very quickly. 20 NAPs with public access are listed by plants, such as English Ivy and Japanese The House of Delegates will meet the Natural Heritage Program, https:// Barberry, are big sellers. Currently virtually, and the Senate will meet in www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural- Virginia’s noxious weed law makes an the Science Museum of Virginia heritage/document/napbook4web. exception “when in-state production where its members and staff will pdf. If you missed his program, you can (See Invasives, next page) of such living plant, or part thereof, is have room to maintain distance. find it on our website and watch it online. commercially viable or such living plant Most of the legislators’ work is is commercially propagated in Virginia.” considered by a subject matter So, how do we get around this subcommittee then the full conundrum? Delegate Bulova asked his committee. At press time Study audience to propose some legislation Resolution HR527 has moved for him. Thus, a small group of out of committee and awaits a representatives from conservation vote in the full House. If it passes, groups met through Zoom over the it will move to the Senate Rules fall to tackle the issue of reducing or Committee and proceed from eliminating the sale of invasive plants. there. We will send out Action Ideas discussed included proposals Alerts as necessary for you, our such as taxing the sale of invasive members, to contact your state plants and using the funds to combat legislators. We are hopeful that their spread in the landscape, posting this study committee will become warning labels on invasive plants at a step forward in our fight point of sale, or revising the Noxious against invasive plants. Weed Ordinance to include plants Meanwhile, when you go currently being sold. Knowing that on walks in your neighborhood there could be considerable resistance or local parks this winter, note from the nursery industry, our group the overwhelming presence of decided to ask for a study of the issue invasive plants. Sometimes I wish It’s hard to tell, but there is a tree underneath this suffocating blanket of English Ivy. with recommendations for action. I were blissfully ignorant of their The study group would include state ubiquity. So many invasive plants Sempervirens, February 2021 3 Witmer adds publications to Society duties he Society is pleased to welcome plant use and decreasing marine debris. coordinator of the Virginia Native Plant Virginia Witmer to the board as the Virginia worked with partners on Marketing Partnership, and she co-led new Publications Chair. Virginia is a long- the Eastern Shore to design the first development of the partnership’s Action time VNPS member and lives in Henrico regional native plant campaign, and Plan. Virginia designed and serves County with her husband Steven and has since supported campaigns across as the primary administrator of the Tdaughters, Katherine and Lauren. coastal Virginia and into the Piedmont PlantVirginiaNatives.org website, which is Virginia is the Outreach Coordinator and Mountain regions. As part of home to the partnership and hosts some for the Virginia Coastal Zone the campaigns, she has collaborated of the regional campaigns. Management (CZM) Program, a network with partners to produce a number Virginia graduated from Allegheny of state agencies, localities and non- of marketing materials, including the College with a major she designed governmental partners, headquartered regional native plant guides. These focused on the social, political, at the Virginia Department of guides, as well as one for the Northern and economic factors influencing Environmental Quality in Richmond. Neck, and the six campaigns covering environmental protection. She For the last 24 years, she has been Tidewater Virginia, were funded by attended the environmental resource responsible for coordinating all facets the Virginia CZM Program through policy master’s program at George of the program’s communication grants from NOAA. Specifically, Washington University. strategy, including publications, website Virginia was the editor and graphic Outside of work, Virginia loves to management, media relations, exhibits designer for the ES, NOVA, Capital/ be outdoors, enjoys reading, sings in a and workshops. She particularly RVA, SEVA/HR, and Central Rapp choir, and wishes toNancy spend Vehrs, more President time enjoys her work on social marketing guides. In her role with Virginia CZM, with a camera. campaigns focused on increasing native Virginia also initiated and is the current — Virginia Witmer stands next to a Plant RVA Natives campaign exhibit. Sempervirens (ISSN 1085-9632) is the quar ter ly newsletter of the Virginia Native Plant Society, Blandy Experimental Farm, 400 Invasives Blandy Farm Lane, Unit 2, Boyce, Va. 22620, 540-837-1600, info@ Continued from page 2 vnps.org. Nancy Vehrs, President; Nancy Sorrells,Sempervirens Editor; Karen York, Office Manager. Original In other good news, I applaud our members for contributing a net donation of material in may be $26,945.45 for the 2020 fundraiser for the Flora of Virginia Project.
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