[pct-l] So Brick...

[tokencivilian at yahoo.com]

"those who shall not be mentioned" (my words and scare quotes) are engaged in an ongoing campaign, via their powerful user group, the IBM-A or something like that (slightly off, but close enough,) to open the trail to uses that would clearly destroy its character as THE premiere long distance hiking trail.  How is this not on topic?  How is making everyone aware of this threat to the trail and discussing it not productive?  How is discussing methods of preserving this unique trail from said threat off topic? 

The clowns won't stop until they can engage in their chosen activity everywhere - wilderness, the PCT, you name the trail that isn't open to their preferred mode of transport.  Simply put, they're selfish children - gimme, gimme, gimme and don't care how many others must suffer the destruction of what makes the PCT and wilderness unique to get what they want.  Those of us who want to preserve and steward the trail and wilderness so that future generations can have a taste of wildness, of a connection to the past, of the ways before everything mechanization took over the world, in discussing this threat to the trail are off topic?  Sir, I would suggest that it is more on topic than a substantial fraction of the list traffic.
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