Situated on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, is an environmental treasure.
An approximately 11 acre urban old growth forest with white oak trees over 300 years old.
The area has been designated as the location for a new indoor athletic practice facility for football. This living ecosystem and wildlife habitat provides a vital ecological function that supports at least 50 old growth white oaks, a migration sanctuary for bird species from South and Central America, and is used as a living classroom for students studying forestry and natural resources. Presently there are a pair of Coopers Hawks nesting in the woods.
To destroy such a vaulable environmental treasure that can never be replaced with an athletic facility that can be built at any number of other locations is shocking for a University that wants to present a "green, sustainable" image and has a motto of "invent the future".
President Steger take notice, and do the right thing......state your opposition to destroying this rare natural resource by joining the thousands of other voices to SAVE STADIUM WOODS.
The Blacksburg community, the Town Council, the Virginia Tech Student Environmental Coalition, College of Natural Resources and the Environment Faculty Association, also NRV Master Gardener Assoc., Master Naturalists, Native Plant Society, New River Bird Club, Sierra Club all support saving Stadium Woods.
