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factors than just the adelgid.” Superintendent Wade was referring to the air pollution that is enveloping the park. "Pollock would not be real happy today,” he said. “Pollock celebrated the view. Today that view is unacceptable,” It did look white, impenetrable, glaring, like L.A.’s San Fernando Valley, not our Shenandoah.
The fact is park visibility is down some 60 percent since the late 1940s as a result of burning fossil fuels— the cars, the power plants, the urban assault on this natural environment. Actually, the park’s Julie Thomas said, the 60 percent is for year round. Visibility in summer is off 80 percent.
Elizabeth Haskell, former secretary of natural resources for Virginia and part-time Rappahannock resident, minces no words. “The park is environmentally threatened. It is essential to this region’s econ
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