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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock N«w« Staff Writer
For John and Judy Tole the invasion of the gypsy moth in Rappahannock during the late 1980s was nothing new. They lived through the same thing in Massachusetts in the 1970s.
Back then they had two small children who were forced to stay inside and couldn’t play in the sandbox because droppings from the caterpillars would fall into their hair. “It was pretty confining,” Mrs. Tole said. “There was massive defoliation. The trees were covered. That was not our experience here. Of course, most of the trees around the house are pines.”
Nevertheless, they have a 14-acre forest on their property, Evergreen, located between Woodville and Rock Mills. The forest was made up mostly of white and red oaks, and the gypsy moth were killing a lot of trees.
“We could have used them for firewood,” Mrs. Tole said. “They were pretty good wood, but we thought maybe somebody could use them for something else.”
They contacted the state forester, and he gave them the names of logging companies. Most weren’t particularly interested in such a small logging project, Mrs. Tole said.
A couple of loggers came out and looked around. They expressed willingness to log the forest, but they “would do the traditional thing,” Mrs. Tole said: “Come in and wipe the place out with not much thought to what was left." She saw other areas that had been logged in that manner. “It broke my heart to have to
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