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Whose property rights?
With any luck at all Sen. Frank Nolen’s attempts to {strangle the Shenandoah National Park have been quashed for this year at the General Assembly. He represents the 24th District, which includes Rockbridge and Augusta counties and the eastern part of Rockingham county — the part that borders the Park.
He represents a small but loud minority in Rockingham County that sees itself as fighting to preserve property rights. This movement has strong support in Madison County as well. Their view is that the park service, through its continual fight to preserve and improve air quality while slowing the growth of subdivisions along the park’s flanks, is unduly restricting their property rights.
Their stated goal as pushed by Sen. Nolan is to permanently restrict the Shenandoah Park to its current boundaries. That is, they want to change Federal law so that the Park Service can no longer accept gifts of land.
Obviously one man’s property right is another’s property restriction.
Superintendent Bill Wade has said many times that the Shenandoah National Park does not want to accept every parcel offered to it as a gift. Some tracts are more suitable as game reserves, he has said. Only when the land in question hat dbvious values that complement the Park is the Interior Department willing to accept it. ; There are people who own land that abuts the park and Who want to leave that land to the Park when they die. In many instances the Park Service already has agreed to acept the land if offered. It would be folly to legislate against this ust of land and a gross violation of a citizen’s right to dispose of property.
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