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monitor properties they hold in easement, ensuring they are not developed.
Nearly 25,000 acres of land in Rappahannock County are under easement agreements, amounting to almost 20 percent of privately owned county land.
When the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors agreed to consider, on a caseby-case basis, assuming the role of a landholding body, it intended to target properties with high conservation values that the Virginia Outdoors Foundation could not take on. The idea was not to grant easements to every landowner who wants one.
“I think it’s more of a special occasion, when it’s in the best interest of the county,” board member Eddie Wayland said. “We just like to have the ability to take care of issues as they come along.”
Wayland said he does not think that there has been a large problem with landowners in the county who have been unable to put their land into easement because of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation’s limited abilities.
Don Loock agrees. Loock is the Rappahannock and Clarke County land conservation officer with the Piedmont Environmental Council, the group that will join the board of supervisors in entering easementagreements with landowners.
“The gap is very small, but people perceive it as very large,” he said.
The focus should be on properties with high conserva
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