Dear Friends of Stadium Woods,
Our efforts are working! Please take further action to save Stadium Woods!
Stadium Woods Urgent Action and Upcoming Events
- Call the Governor and Secy of Natural Resources ASAP.
- Call Sen. Mark Warner, Sen. John Edwards, and First Lady Michelle Obama.
- See details of upcoming events including 5/8 Sharyn McCrumb book signing at Blacksburg Library; 5/16 Benefit Concert at Gillie’s featuring Leslie Brooks and 5/22: Joan Maloof www.oldgrowthforest.net presentation at the Y at VT Ballroom on North Main Street.
You may also send an email to President Steger, the Board of Visitors and the Governor via the Sierra Club.
Priority Calls:
Governor Bob McDonnell: 804-786-2211
VA Secy of Natural Resources, Doug Domenech: 804-786-0044
Second Tier Priority Calls:
Sen. Mark Warner: 202-224-2023
Sen. John Edwards: 540-985-8625
First Lady Michelle Obama: (202) 456-1414 and/or submit comments online
Please call our elected representatives, as advised by our legal counsel, to urge them to ensure that the woods are permanently protected from development, and that the woods be protected in a conservation easement. The goal and priorities are listed below.
Talking points for your calls:
- Prevent impending development in its entirety of the 11 acre rare old growth white oak urban forest on Virginia Tech’s campus know as Stadium Woods.
- Permanently protect Stadium Woods with a conservation easement or any other vehicle that will save the forest in its entirety forever.
- Urge whomever you speak with to see the website www.savestadiumwoods.com and the link to the Stadium Woods student produced video on You Tube that as of 5/7 has more than 35,000 views.
- Inform them that as of 5/7 there are over 8,300 signatures on the Save Stadium Woods petition.
Please call them ASAP this week to express your support for PROTECTING THE ENTIRETY of Stadium Woods in a permanent conservation easement.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, May 8, 7:00 p.m. http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/activities.php Sharyn McCrumb and Jack Hinshelwood will be at the Blacksburg Library on Tuesday, May 8 at 7:00 p.m. for a words and music performance! Jack Hinshelwood is an award-winning Virginia bluegrass musician. Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, well known for her Appalachian novels including She Walks These Hills; The Rosewood Casket, and The Ballad of Frankie Silver. They’ll combine their talents for a memorable evening of music and storytelling. Please arrive early and ask Ms. McCrumb and Mr. Hinshelwood to please help us save Stadium Woods!
Wednesday, May 16, Benefit Concert at Gillie’s featuring Leslie
Brooks and friends!
Tuesday, May 22, 6:30 – 8:00 pm, presentation by Joan Maloof, www.oldgrowthforest.net at the Y at VT Ballroom YMCA at Virginia Tech, 1000 North Main Street, Blacksburg, VA, 24060, 540-961-9622, ymca@vtymca.org
Sincerely,
Rebekah Paulson, Executive Director
Friends of Stadium Woods
