Re: [at-l] SNP/Skyline Drive

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This is from the SNP's web site.
 <A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/shen/4a2.htm">Shenandoah NP: Shenandoah Today</A>
 
Wildbill

SNP Announces Night Closing of Skyline Drive During Virginia's Hunting 
Season 
November 1, 1999

Shenandoah National Park, VA—Portions of the Skyline Drive, the famed 
mountain road through Shenandoah National Park, will be closed at night 
during hunting season, Park Superintendent Douglas K. Morris announced 
today. He noted that this is the twentieth year that this closure has 
been undertaken and that it reduces illegal hunting activity within the 
Park, a sanctuary for wildlife, during the Commonwealth's hunting season 
outside the Park. 

From November 8, 1999, through January 3, 2000, the Skyline Drive 
between Front Royal (Mile 0 at U.S. Highway 340) and Thornton Gap (Mile 
31 at U.S. Highway 211), and between Swift Run Gap (Mile 65 at U.S. 
Highway 33) and Rockfish Gap (Mile 105 at U.S. Highway 250), will be 
closed daily between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. The central portion of the 
Drive, between Thornton Gap and Swift Run Gap, will remain open for 
overnight access to Skyland Lodge and Big Meadows Campground until those 
facilities close in November. Then, from November 29, 1999, through 
January 3, 2000, the entire length of the Skyline Drive will be closed 
daily from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. 

Morris said, "By closing portions of the Skyline Drive, rangers will be 
able to concentrate patrols on problem areas and increase hunter 
contacts along the Park boundary." 

Superintendent Morris also reminded the public that the Park has a 
reward program to assist in combating illegal hunting in the Park. "A 
reward will be paid to anyone who furnishes information which leads to 
the conviction of any person who hunts, transports, or attempts to 
transport illegally taken wildlife within the Park," said Morris. Anyone 
with information about such activities should call the nearest Ranger 
Station or Park Headquarters at (800) 732-0911 or (540) 999-2227. The 
identity of persons furnishing information will be kept strictly 
confidential, and a person does not have to reveal their name. 

For additional information, contact Lyn Rothgeb at (540) 999-3300
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