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(Continued from Page 1) :gal opinion would support is position. If what op(onents to the Park swap naintain is true, the Superintendent added, then he entire land exchange irogram of the National Park ervice would be jeopardized. Jacobsen reported that iwyers for the Park Service dll confer with Phillip turton, chairman of the louse Subcommittee on lational Parks and Insular kffairs, to determine the ntent of the 1977 amendnent to the Land and Water 'onservation Fund Act. acobsen, pointing to irevious testimony he’d given he Committee before 1975 egarding Park plans for land xchanges, maintained that ntent couldn’t have been to dock exchanges, such as the ransaction between ihenandoah National Park ind Saddleback Associates.
Other Exchanges Still
Considered While plans to trade Park land in Rappahannock have been abandoned, proposals to exchange elsewhere are still under consideration. Minor swaps are continuing between the Virginia Department of Highways and the Park Service to resolve jurisdictional problems and “tidy up messy corners,” Jacobsen said.
Two other proposed exchanges are “currently on hold,” he reported. Negotiations with property owners in Madison County for an exchange of 20 acres in Berry Hollow for Park property have progressed only as far as initial contact. Negotiations between the Park Service and Virginia Game Commission over a trade of 3,000 acres from the Park Service for 3,810 from the Game Commission have stalled because of the Game Commission’s reluctance to come up 700 acres short on the transaction.
According to Jacobsen, discussion between the Park Service and the Game Commission over the exchange had been going on for ten years before a proposal was formulated that Park officials felt was agreeable to both sides. “Then the Game Commission decided they weren’t interested,” basing the decision on the shortfall of 710 acres, Jacobsen said. He added that he hoped the Game Commission’s rejection of the trade was not final and that it would instead mean delay for only a few months.
Jacobsen explained that the exchange with the Game Commission was considered "equal value” by Park
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