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“If the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection stands for anything at all, it is for local people finding practical and far-sighted ways to preserve the irreplaceable value of the resources we share — our historic towns and villages, open space and scenic vistas, and farmland, streams and forests,” said RLEP president David Chuse as he issued an open invitation to attend a special public program offered Friday, Sept. 30 by Piedmont Virginia’s senior conservation organization.
For the meeting, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the courthouse in Washington, RLEP will bring three experts to offer advice on preparing for the pressures of growth .
“You can’t do too much advance planning on outside development/ maintained Bob Lee, Clarke Counfy administrator and RLEP’s featured speaker. “Developers who come into the county from elsewhere are different animals from the local people who put in a few lots here and there.”
And with outside development interests buying large pieces of Rappahannock property, Mr. Lee’s message is a timely one.
He’s one of Virginia’s recognized experts in rural conservation. Since coming to Clarke a decade ago, Mr. Lee has moved the little agriculturally-based county to the front of the
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