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The photo that is posted is not of Mt Rogers. Mt Rogers has a gentle, forested summit, not a bare, rocky one. The photo looks like one of the rock outcroppings that are at least a mile from the summit. Could somebody substitute a photo that is less misleading? 128.173.49.45 (talk) 20:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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This article attributes the loss of the spruce fir forests on Mt Rogers to increasing temperature, and a drier environment. Possible so, but elsewhere (Great Smoky Mountains), the loss of the Frazier fir is attributed to the balsam woolly adelgid which killed 95% of the Frasier firs over the past decade. I would guess that this is the cause of the loss fir on Mt. Rogers as well. 23:57, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

I reworked the uncited paragraph about the effects of global warming on the forests of Mount Rogers into a discussion of the spruce-fir forests of Mount Rogers and the reasons for their decline (I could find no reliable sources that mentioned recent climate changes affecting the forests; the decline is mostly attributed to the balsam woolly adelgid). I also changed the name of the section from Global Warming Controversy to Spruce-Fir Forests. Although as I worked on it, it ended up being more concerned with the red spruce-fraser fir forests in general, rather than Mount Rogers itself. There is currently a poor article for Fir and spruce forests, so maybe we could clean that up and work some of this info into it. SheepNotGoats (talk) 20:57, 20 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Northenmost extent of southern Spruce-fir Forest

What about Beartown north of Saltville and Balsam Beartown Mountain at the NW Corner of Burkes Garden? Those are Spruce-Fir forests too. Are you saying those include the southernmost extent of Balsam and not then Northernmost extent of Fraiser Firs?107.4.166.57 (talk) 19:11, 22 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Article as primary topic[edit]

I just reverted Famartin's move of this article to Mount Rogers (Virginia), per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Let's discuss whether this article is the primary topic: that is, whether it is "highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term".

The evidence that this is a primary topic includes:

Google Books search of "Mount Rogers" Virginia yields 14,000 results, while "Mount Rogers" Australia yields 2,870 results.
Google Scholar search of "Mount Rogers" Virginia yields 1,310 results, while "Mount Rogers" Australia yields 323 results.
Wikipedia traffic over the last 90 days: 87 daily active readers for Virginia, 2 for Australia

I think these data show that the peak in Virginia is much more likely than the peak in Australia to be the topic sought in searches. What do other editors think? —hike395 (talk) 14:45, 22 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]