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Environmental Meeting Friday
What can be done to protect trees from the projected gypsy moth invasion without resorting to chemical sprays? How can the grandeur of this scenic area be preserved from excessive governmental regulation?
These questions are the essence of a public meeting to be held September 21 at the Rappahannock County Library. The two-part program is sponsored by the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection (RLEP). It begins at 7:30 p.m., and is offered at no charge to the public, David Chuse announces.
. “The Coming of the Gypsy Moth” is Part I, which features the film, “Gypsy Moth - A Dilemma.” Hie film will complement an up-to-date report by Tom Finn on the advance of the gypsy moth into Virginia, what has happened in Loudoun County this summer in learning how to handle this insect, and the problems the gypsy moth creates for trees and people.
Mr. Finn is from the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, and is involved firsthand in the Virginia campaign to control the gypsy moth. RLEP invites attendees to come prepared with questions for Mr. Finn; the discussion will include measures that can be taken to minimize the problem in Rappahannock.
Frank Reynolds, local resident and attorney for the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) in Warrenton, will present an overview of PEC’s new working concept for rural land conservation, the "Virginia Piedmont Reserve.”
According to PEC president and local resident, Robert Dennis, the concept stresses voluntary cooperation of private landowners to protect “public values ranging from water supply to open space” in a large area of the Virginia Piedmont, including Rappidiannock.
“It would be of such scale and permanence as to be depicted on maps and marked with highway signs...It would be an area where land is treated as a resource, not a commodity,” Mr. Dennis said.
RLEP is a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and preservation of Rappahannock’s rural and small-town environment. For more information, call 937-6219.
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