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We were disappointed by the supervisors’ future to endorse scenic river ststunfor the Upper Rappahannock last Monday. In putting off until tomorrow what they should have done today, the supervisors may have coined a new phrase: Better wait than never.
What endorsement of the scenic river concept will do for the Rappahannock, people who own property bordering it and recreationists is well documented. Initiated by Friends of ' the Rappahannock, the proposal has been discussed for months in Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier counties, and already endorsed hy supervisors in the latter two.
Rappahannock supervisors are probably as informed on the issue as they’ll ever be.
And they got more information on Monday when an official at the state’s division of parks and, recreation outlined what scenic river status would do and not do for property owners and recreationists: Neither wOl have spy more or any less rights than were permitted to them by law before.
The scenic river concept is a paper lion with little more real rear than a mouse. Even the expert who spoke <at the supervisors’ meeting admitted that scenic river status is not a “thou shall not” clause that will guarantee forever the natural course of the Rappahannock River cannot be altered.
So why endorse a squeaker?
Simple.. Scenic river, ststya gives’a body of water a Vok& *ft does Jwo things that everyone'in Rappahannock should be excited about. It establishes an advisory
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