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Citizens of Rappahannock County owe a debt of gratitude to
the McNear family for the two transactions, reported in the June 9 Rappahannock News, which placed 316 acres on top of Jenkins Mountain in safe hands.
These were conserv ation purchases, the purpose of which was to preserve Jenkins Mountain as well as current views from below and from Skyline Drive. The new owner of this property is the Jenkins Mountain Land Trust, which has connections to the Piedmont Environmental Council, though the PEC organization itself was in no way involved in the project. The funds required were raised entirely from Rappahannock sources.
Several years ago, thinking it would be a profitable location for six mega-mansions, a nonresident purchased and subdivided the top of Jenkins Mountain. This was particularly troubling to Dick and Jeannie McNear, who had been donating conservation easements to preserve the present character of Gid Brown Hollow, including Jenkins’ slopes.
Fortunately, the subdivision encountered economic difficulties, at least in part due to access problems (an effort to “show Jenkins Mountain last March 11 was aborted when my fourwheel-drive truck, which was supposed to be going forward and upward across a thin cover of snow, started sliding backwards down the subdivision road). The McNears decided to try to buy the Mountain - drawing on money that had been set aside (and was still much needed) for other purposes, including retirement.
This was not an utter gamble. As a member of PEC’s board
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