Greetings to all,
I am not sure if Stuart's Hill is the area off Pageland and Groveton,
but I was on this site this morning in Manassas (SR622, going north on Lee
Highway, where Groveton is the left side and Featherbed Lane is the right).
The idea that the Park Service says that what they want is to bring the
area to what it was during the Civil War is troubling, because what I saw at
7am today indicated that major change is happening. Would not one expect that
to leave the area natural, with possibly the secondary or tertiary growth
since the 1860s, would be the solution? It had been quite quiet and supportive
of
the life within for the last years, since it was dezoned for a shopping
center.
My list for today's visit:
Hay bales curled around drains as though someone expects runoff to be averted
from some unnatural substance;
A Spill Kit Salvage Drum noted to be from 1 800 Hot Hogs
5 big Caterpillar land machines
1 bobcat digger and its trailer
1 Whitmans Oil Company tanker from Catlett, VA
One long trailer car, with no name on it, interestingly
Rolls and rolls of extra wide black plastic sheeting
2 Don't Johns (not sure this is the company they used during the Civil War!)
1 barbecue grill
Signs denoting the Environmental Quality Resources LLC of Gaithersburg
301 208 6123
1 large pile of trees removed from the first pond, which is rich in bird
life, and now minus some very close sheltering trees
1 site of major digging near the cedar or juniper trees ( I don't know which)
which I know to be the main Kestrel habitat in the area. This is located on
the right, about 100 yards in from the entrance on Groveton.
Usually I visit this location to find birds on the list. Sorry to say the
list was so scary.
As a taxpayer and a NPS pass holder, I feel that I am in need of further info
on what is happening to this land. Any guidance on whom to contact would be
truly appreciated.
To comfort myself this am, I went to Gravelly Point and Roaches Run, where
two black crowned night herons were lazily swooping above water frothy with
small mouth bass, too distracted with breeding to take live bait from the
regular
fishermen there.
Ellen
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