The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution located on a 3,200-acre (13 km) campus located just outside the historic town of Front Royal, Virginia. An extension of the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., the SCBI has played a leading role in the fields of veterinary medicine, reproductive physiology and conservation biology since its founding in 1974. Previously named the Conservation a...
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The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution located on a 3,200-acre (13 km) campus located just outside the historic town of Front Royal, Virginia. An extension of the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., the SCBI has played a leading role in the fields of veterinary medicine, reproductive physiology and conservation biology since its founding in 1974. Previously named the Conservation and Research Center, the CRC became known as the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2010 as a symbol of its growing independence from the captive animals associated with the traditional images of zoos.
The land on which the SCBI lies has a long and rich history dating back to 1909, when the United States Army leased some 42 area farms. In the years predating World War I, the land served as a series of cavalry remount stations, supplying horses and mules to the military. The federal government ultimately purchased the land in 1911 and...
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