I used to live on a road adjacent to these woods and walked through them almost daily on the way to campus, either for class or some other reason. I loved that walk, winding as it does through this forest, and the solitude and introspection it afforded, especially when a significant project or important test awaited me when I arrived at my destination. For two years, those woods were a familiar part of my routine and I cherish those memories still.
That part of Virginia Tech’s campus is tremendously special place and should be free from encroaching development, especially when a viable alternative is evident. To raze these woods would be a indelible and irreversible mistake that must be prevented.
I’m still ticked that the old golf course was bulldozed for the Inn at Virginia Tech.
This development is incomprehensible.
