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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock New* SUIT Writer
The National Park Service wants to conduct a study of lands surrounding the park, Paul Anderson, assistant superintendent of the park, told the Board of Supervisors last week.
The study, called a related lands initiative, would attempt to identify those lands outside the park which are most crucial to the future of the park, Mr. Anderson said.
He said the Park Service wants to involve the governments in counties surrounding the park. “The preservation of a long linear park depends on the decisions of boards of supervisors in the counties surrounding the park,” he said. He said the study could aid the boards in their decision-making.
Sandy Rives, park public relations officer, praised Rappahannock for requiring that trails into the park be preserved from the bottom of the mountains. He said that Rappahannock is the only county with such a requirement, and as a result some trails have been lost when lands were sold.
Another concern of Park Service officials is that views from Skyline Drive are increasingly filled with new development. Mr. Rives said that Rappahannock’s ordinances do more to preserve the park than those of any of the other surrounding jurisdictions.
Mr. Anderson said that Shenandoah National Park, unlike most parks in the National Park system, has no authority to acquire additional lands. The lands currently in the park were acquired when the Commonwealth of Virginia condemned them and donated them to the park service. Out of an original authorized boundary of more than 500,000
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