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SUPERINTENDENT Robert R. Jacobsen, of Shenandoah National Park, announced today that a surveying and monumenting project on approximately 20 miles of Park boundary between Overall Run and the head of Kemp Hollow in Page County has been completed.
This project was prompted because the marked ownership of parklands has come under close scrutiny during the past several years as uses on adjoining private lands have changed from agrarian to residential, with resulting increases in land values. In a number of situations, specific boundary lines have come into contention, and some have been the subject of litigation, said Jacobsen.
In this process, the Park has found that the first efforts in locating Park ownership on the ground were sometimes inaccurate. Later efforts at on-site clarification, particularly where boundary lines generally follow patterns of use rather than recorded courses and distances, have not always identified nor resolved previous existing ownership conflicts.
UPON occasion, painted Park boundary lines, which only approximate the location of true boundary lines, and whose primary purpose has simply been to inform the public (particularly hunters) of a change of jurisdiction, have been given unintended and undeserved status by adjoining property owners. A number of these painted lines and inaccurately placed boundary markers have gained acceptance and have been used, without benefit of research or consultation, by private surveyors in their work on adjoining private parcels.
In an effort to determine and alleviate compounding ownership problems along its boundary, Shenandoah National Park entered into a contract with R. Nl. Bartenstein i Associate. Inc., of Warrenton. to research all of the necessary deeds and records for the 21-mile long segment of the Park boundary and. using the most advanced surveying techniques currently available, to accurately survey it and monument it.
Park Superintendent Jacobsen requested all adjacent landowners to inspect this new line and. in
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