Cooperation wins at Manassas

[Skeet]

Re: Cooperation wins at Manassas

Lesser of the two evils is my point! Picnic table or Wal-Mart. Wetlands or driving range. I think we need to grab whatever victory we can from the developers. It is a matter at this point of development or not. Once the land is developed, that's it! Cpl Dan Morgan 10thVA(IVR)

[dusty27]

Re: Cooperation wins at Manassas

Fellas,

I think we are all agreeing here, just using different words.

Todd and Eric have unique viewpoints on this situation due to there positions, so their words carry a lot of weight with me. Bill's information on the history of the current Henry House also puts the current renovations in a different light.

Eric's point about precedents is of some concern, but as Todd points out, other parks are moving toward presenting the parks in a "as they were then" light, which is encouraging.

As many here have said, they have the land now. At least we can discuss interpretation now..........

[FC Barlow]

Re: Cooperation wins at Manassas

Dusty: Agreed. Thank you for your conciliatory comments.

Brian: This land is not a recent acquisition. The land in question on Stuart's Hill has been in the park's possession since 1988 (remember the Mall controversy?) and over the last 16 years has done very little with the site. Now they are creating wetlands where there were no wetlands in the 1860s to appease the Smithsonian people who scrambled at the last minute to replace wetlands destroyed at Dulles. As Eric Mink very astutely stated, it sets a bad precedent. What if the Smithsonian decides to creat wetlands at other parks where there were none historically - should we let them??

We have this land already - now lets correctly interpret it.