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superintendent Robert Jacobsen announced on Monday that the Park is dropping all plans to trade four parcels of parkland in Rappahannock and Warren Counties for a tract of privately owned land in Greene County. It proves that the little guy can fight city hall—or in this case, federal beaurocracy—and win, at least once in a while.
Opponents of the land exchange proposal, led by Stanley and Barbara Thompson and F. D. Coffey, mounted petition drives, contacted government representatives and most important, uncovered federal and state law that cast doubt on the legality of the Park’s proposal. Faced with overwhelming public sentiment against the land exchange, the Park backed off.
But in abandoning consideration of the land trade. Park officials stopped short of acknowledging that their proposal was illegal both under the Virginia Code and under Public Law 95-42, amendments to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965.
Superintendent Jacobsen noted that legal questions existed in correspondence addressed to the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors. In his letter, Jacobsen agreed to hold a public hearing on the proposed land transfer but questioned whether such a hearing would proVe counterproductive if held before legal problems were resolved. However, in his announcement of the Park’s withdrawal of the land exchange proposal, Jacobsen didn’t mention any difficulties with the law. And at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Rappahannock League for Envi
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