Preston Bryant is the Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia, and he joins Coy Barefoot on the phone from a business trip to Abingdon in far southwest Virginia. This weekend, he’ll be biking along the Creeper Trail.
“People come all over the eastern part of the United States to bike this trail,” he said. Bryant is also touring environmental education programs at schools in Saltville and Marion. Coy also asks about a recent report in the Lynchburg News and Advance that fish in the Staunton River have incredibly high mercury levels. There’s also news about changes at the Confederacy Museum in Richmond.
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