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By Jack Price Special U> the Rappahannock News
On July 3, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Big Meadows to dedicate the new Shenandoah National Park. With that act, a grand experiment was started to recreate wilderness, where none currently existed, on land that had been used and abused by mankind for more than 200 years.
This alone made Shenandoah unique among all national parks, all of which had been established to preserve existing wilderness from human encroachment.
Those who explore the history of Shenandoah quickly realize that it was the trees that drew settlers to the Blue Ridge. They provided building materials, fencing, and food for personal use and for sale. The trees sustained the people
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