[pct-l] Bikes on PCT- political statement

[Gary Wright]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 4:15 PM, gwschenk at socal.rr.com wrote:
> As one who frequented the national forests pre-Reagan and post-Reagan I agree with her analysis all the way.
> This does affect the trail and so is on-topic, IMO. Politics are important to the trail, but of course a political flame war won't do this list much good.

It is simply not true that people who support a smaller federal government in general automatically support less spending on national parks, trails, and open space in particular.  Making blanket statements to the contrary is needlessly inflammatory.

I was careful to state that *general* political debate about these sorts of issues was not appropriate for the list but that does not preclude discussion regarding public policy that is *specific* to the PCT or the national trail system.

I don't want to cutoff vigorous discussion about the *PCT*.  I do want to cutoff discussion of political philosophies in general (on this list at least!).

Radar