Bull Run Mountains Conservancy

As the leaves continue to drop from the trees, the landscape seems to change from an ocean of green vegetation to one of grays and browns and of rocks and wood. It is the time of year that old home sites are clearly visible along with the scars of past land use. As we look at these human-altered landscapes that are now forested over, it is almost impossible not to reflect on how the underlying geology is not only the shaper of the woods today, but also the determiner of how t