[pct-l] PCT-Waldo lake area quiet again

[Jon Danniken]

Deliberately providing misinformation and flat out lying only serves to 
erode whatever trust people are willing to put into environmental causes. 
While it might get you brownie points within a *very* small circle of 
people, most will tend to associate your deception with all who claim to be 
in support of environmental causes, with the end result that any progress is 
eroded away in the climate of distrust which you have created.

In other words, if your only reason for supporting the environment is to 
inflate your own ego, find another area of interest; many have worked too 
hard, too honestly, for these causes and do not need you to undermine the 
efforts at educating people with honest and reliable data.

Jon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Martin Smith" <paulmartinsmith2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: "PCT-L mailing group" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT-Waldo lake area quiet again


My apologies if you consider this information misleading. The quotations 
were from Associated Press,  précised from several local newspapers and a 
back channel source within NFS and deemed to be accurate.
My report was an attempt to bring some good news to a trail system that is 
always under threat from encroachment and misuse by various groups.

I am pleased to learn that Jon is such an active supporter of the motor 
craft ban and an expansion of Wilderness areas.  I wish more people on this 
list would be as enthusiastic!


Paul Martin Smith
PCTA volunteer coordinator - Mid Oregon
paulmartinsmith2004 at yahoo.co.uk
541 207 3255


----- Original Message ----
From: Jon Danniken <danniken at comcast.net>
To: Paul Martin Smith <paulmartinsmith2004 at yahoo.co.uk>; PCT-L mailing group 
<pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 5:24:25 PM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] PCT-Waldo lake area quiet again

"Paul Martin Smith" wrote:
>
> This is an important political decision made in the
> face of strong opposition from well connected developers.

Um, no, it was a decision made to help preserve the water quality in the
third clearest lake in the world.  The decision had nothing to do with "well
connected developers", because there is no developable land anywhere up near
Waldo Lake.

>PCT, which passes by the lake at a higher
> elevation will be a lot quieter in future years.

Again, more misinformation.  Waldo Lake already had a 10 MPH speed limit,
which precluded racing boats or anything else which could be heard from the
PCT from operating in it's waters, which is one and a half miles at the
closest to Waldo Lake.   Banning motors from Waldo Lakewill have *zero*
effect on noise on the PCT.

As for myself, a Eugene resident, I have long supported a motor ban on Waldo
Lake, in addition to extending the Wilderness Boundary to include the trail
around the lake.

I don't know why you chose to try and turn this into something which it is
not, but it is extremely disengenuous of you to do so.

Jon









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