file a legal challenge to ‘Wilderness Wal-Mart’ Approval.
Wal-Mart plans to pave over more than 50 acres of historic woodlands at the Civil War-era Wilderness Battlefield, in Orange County, Virginia. In the process, Walmart has angered a coalition of wilderness battlefield supporters. The coalition questions the Walmart's commitment to their green initiative. In response, they have filed a law suit to stop Walmart from building the Supercenter. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, Park Advocates, and local residents have joined forces to This Aug. 7, 2009 file photo shows Russ Smith, National Park Service superintendent for the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, right, talks with Jim Campi, of the Civil War Preservation Trust as they discuss the proposed Wal-Mart site in front of the Ellwood house in Locust Grove, Va., Friday, Aug. 7, 2009. Preservationists and residents filed a legal challenge Wednesday September 23, to block construction of a Walmart Supercenter near a famed battlefield.
(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
The National Parks Conservation Association has released a statement supporting the lawsuit filed on September 23,2009 which challenges the approval of a Special Use Permit that would allow a Wal-Mart Supercenter to be built at the border of the Wilderness Battlefield, one of America's treasured national parklands. The lawsuit was filed in the Orange County, Virginia, court on behalf of plaintiffs the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Friends of Wilderness Battlefield, and six individual landowners whose rights would be negatively impacted by the Wal-Mart development.
NPCA has been active in the Wilderness Battlefield Coalition, joining the National Trust and the Friends group in opposition to construction of a new Wal-Mart at this site, and offering to assist in responsible historic site planning that would relocate the Wal-Mart development to a preferable site nearby, while protecting the integrity of the national park.
NPCA Virginia Program Manager Catharine Gilliam commented on the US affection for National Parks:
This week, millions of Americans will focus on the glory of our national parks, as profiled in Ken Burns's new documentary, and be inspired to protect our most special places. We're hopeful Wal-Mart will be, too. We remain confident that Wal-Mart will walk its talk of sustainability by moving its proposed Supercenter to an alternative site--thereby sustaining local tourism jobs and preserving our national heritage, while also creating new retail-sector jobs.
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