biscoe
* Ace Member *
That is a very well-written article, and the situation is a darn shame. Obviously the firing range risks were present before volunteers devoted "hundreds upon hundreds of man hours" to developing the course. That is just bad decision-making by the parks department.
For what it is worth, there are other disc golf courses with shooting in reasonably close proximity. At certain times of year Patapsco Valley sounds like a war zone.
Environmental compliance nerd note: putting a landfill in a floodplain is a lousy idea, so Harrisonburg made the right choice there.
I am fairly certain that a change at the top of the parks department precipitated the issues. We tend to see this stuff as simply "the department" when they are often the current administration of the department (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse).