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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
Rappahannock Vwi Staff Writer
In announcing on July 3 that Park authorities had abandoned plans to exchange 405 acres of Shenandoah National Park land for private property in Greene County, Superintendent Robert Jacobsen emphasized that the action was taken in response to citizen opposition—not because the trade was illegal under federal or Virginia law. An opinion released August 2 by the Office of the Solicitor of the U. S. Department of the Interior supports Jacobsen’s position.
David A. Watts, Acting Associate Solicitor for Conservation and Wildlife, holds in a ten-page legal opinion that “the exchange of lands recently proposed in Shenandoah National Park is
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