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it was an uncommon message on the stuff we live on from Richmond. But this governor in these times has given expression to the harsh realization that there are in fact finite limits to our air, land and water resources. Attention to this huge and growing global issue is soon to escalate here with naming of a new cabinet-level secretary for' natural resouces, someone ideally a respected and practical environmental executive.
The character and lifestyle of the Virginia Piedmont, where we live and where these politicians campaigned this past year, is moving now into new and uncharted waters.
After more than 200 years, the historic rural agrarian and open space character of Fauquier, Loudoun and all the other land which feeds clean air and water to the nearby cities faces large new forces at work which may soon make this area a very different place in which to live and to have future expectations for our children. If measured simply upon the harsh experience of neighboring' states to the north, it will be progressively worse than now.
For the hills, meadows and streams of Virginia’s Piedmont have now become interlocked with the central dynamics of eastern urban America’s growth. An extraordinary grid of five four-lane highways has in recent years made this part of metropolitan Washington’s new"growth zone.
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