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large enthusiastic crowd turned out for the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection’s annual meeting last Thursday evening at the Washington Fire Hall.
President Marc Malik noted that during the past year RLEP has worked on getting donations of scenic easements, sponsored the natural history day camp, monitored the Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission meetings, worked on environmental workshops with the Garden Club, helped sponsor an environmental club at the high school and worked with the Rainforest Action Group.
He said the group has become interested in working to preserve trail heads into the national park and in preserving open space as a land use category. He said one group is working on keeping graval roads in the county. He Baid RLEP had also op,posed the Bleu Rock expansion saying such a large use would be better in a commercial zone and developed a position on tourist and recreation developments in the county.
Members and friends enjoyed a performance by Paul Reisler and Martha Sandefer. They performed music Mr. Reisler has written about living in Rappahannock. Mr. Reisler played the guitar and hammered dulcimer. Ms. Sandafer sang and played the guitar.
Next the membership heard Julie Thomas of the National Park Service talk about increasing problems with visual pollution, ozone, and acid rain in the Shenandoah Na
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