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Article: CHESAPEAKE NATURE TRAIL SAVE THE TREES.(LOCAL)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 19, 1997
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Last December, things were looking bleak for a small woods at the Chesapeake municipal center.
Plans called for clear-cutting the trees to make way for 700 parking spaces. A soul-soothing nature trail was to be reduced to a barren exercise path around a parking lot.
But wait! Our friends, the trees, and the nature trail may be saved, for the most part.
Carl Edwards, a Chesapeake contractor and environmentalists, obtained 700 signatures on a petition to save the trees.
He subsequently was named as the only nongovernmental member of a five-person committee to seek a better way, and the committee appears to have found one.
It ...