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four peaks, all of which have retained their natural character,” said Jacobsen. “A privately owned tract of land intrudes deeply into the Saddleback Mountain complex and therefore, the Park is planning to acquire this privately owned tract in an equal value exchange for four parcels of Park land which have minimal value for Park purposes unless additional adjacent tracts of privately owned land could be acquired.”
According to Park assistant superintendent Bill Loftis, McNear, Snead and Adamson told Park authorities that they didn’t intend to do anything with the land obtained in the swap except possibly use it for hunting. “They said they didn’t have any plans to develop it,” Loftis reported. However, he noted that once the land trade is final, Park authorities would have no control over the property.
Loftis recalled that there had been only one other trade of Park land since his assignment at Shenandoah five years ago and that involved a very small parcel.
In a telephone interview on Tuesday, Eric Adamson, one of the property owners involved in the land trade, said he and his partners had owned the land in Greene County for five years. For three of those years, said Adamson, Greene County had no zoning ordinance or restrictions on development “and we didn’t subdivide. I think history is probably better than future assurances,” he added.
Adamson noted that he, Snead and McNear had been talking about a swap with Park officials for almost four years and had been "presented with eight or twelve different parcels...all over the place. Frankly, we were more interested in acquiring something closer to home,” Adamson said, in explaining why the owners had agreed to a trade for property in Rappahannock’s Old Hollow.
“None Of us are developers...That’s not our interest,” Adamson stated. “If you walked it (the three parcels in Old Hollow), you’d wonder why we exchanged.” He described the Old Hollow property as extremely steep with part virtually cliffsides and inaccessible by road.
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