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by Lyt Wood
County Forester
Historically, the act of setting aside a substantial acreage of good (or even marginal) land for “aesthetic” or “recreational” purposes has always caused impassioned controversy. Our own down-home example is of course the Shenandoah National t*ark, which includes over 30,000 acres of Rappahannock County at the expense of private ownership, some prime timberlands, and a chunk of the county tax base. As I mentioned in an earlier essay, recreation and aesthetics are usually compatible with other land uses on the same areas; in many cases these areas don’t have to be “set aside” at all.
Most of the objections concerning aesthetic degredation of the forests involves timber harvest operations, especially the
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