vacation area for hunting and fishing.

The area was also one of artist Charlie Russell’s favorite places. In 1928, Lambkin erected a two story lodge adjacent to the original hotel. The existing building is 40’ by 90’ and had 22 rooms with one bathroom on each floor. Since then the Hotel has undergone many changes, including the addition of bathrooms and showers in each room. The number of rooms was reduced from the original 22 to 14 to accommodate the update in 1999.Construction of the pipeline, first proposed five years ago, already is more than two years behind schedule and almost $3 billion over budget in large part because of rulings by the 4th Circuit that have vacated federal permits for the project.

Dominion is asking the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to reissue a permit that the 4th Circuit vacated last year because of inadequate analysis of the project’s likely effect on endangered or threatened animal species in its path. The company stopped work on the project in December after the appeals court vacated the biological opinion the agency approved.

The 4th Circuit ruling on the Appalachian Trail crossing prompted the company to adopt a new strategy to build the pipeline first from Buckingham County, where it would intersect with an