Outdoors - inRich.com

ANDY THOMPSON

To paraphrase poet Robert Frost, something there is that doesn't love a subdivision, that wants it down. We all need a place to live, but we all need places to play, too. Four walls and a roof are necessary, but so are unending acres of hardwood forest, rare plant species and chance encounters with furry fauna. How often does it seem that development is effectively balanced by conservation?

Outer Banks

Park Service rules birds' habitat on shore needs protection

Some fishermen and business owners on Hatteras Island cried betrayal this week after the National Park Service cut off access to three popular surf-fishing spots to protect nesting shorebirds.

A pony grazes on the slope of Wilburn Ridge

It's a cool park (literally) to take a visit

Here on the rooftop of Virginia, the wind blows in hard from the northwest. It rarely ceases. To the southeast is Big Pinnacle, at 5,089 feet the highest point in Grayson Highlands State Park. To the northwest is Wilburn Ridge, the Appalachian Trail and, if we want to venture outside the park, Mount Rogers, Virginia's highest peak (5,729 feet).

• Scenes from Grayson Highlands State Park.

Tuesday, May 13

•	'Extraordinary fishery' in Richmond James is beckoning anglers

Sunday, May 11

•	Elizabeth River cleanup plan set

•	Tides report

•	Preservation progresses in Virginia

Saturday, May 10

•	Outer Banks Park Service rules birds' habitat on shore needs protection

Friday, May 9

•	In a respite from study, students fish

•	Trout stockings

•	FISHING REPORT

•	It's a cool park (literally) to take a visit

•	Tides report

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Guidebook

Thursday, May 8

•	Man who killed hikers in '81 suspected in shootings

•	Far Southwest Virginia New state forest coming to life

Tuesday, May 6

•	Parts of Cape Hatteras Seashore closed to protect birds

Sunday, May 4

•	The future of the James River

•	COLUMN: Paul Woody James should be more than river that runs through city

•	Keeping us up to date on fish kills

•	Tide report

Saturday, May 3

•	Va. seeks blue-crab disaster finding

Friday, May 2

•	Tide report

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Guidebook

•	Fishing report

•	Did Charles City miss mark by voting no on rifle issue?

•	Trout stocking

Thursday, May 1

•	Quantum leap

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FISHING HOT LINE

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STATE PARK SERIES

State Park series:
• Grayson Highlands State Park
• False Cape State Park
• Douthat State Park
• Pocahontas State Park
• Series introduction

EXPLORE THE JAMES

Exploring the James River
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