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[pct-l] Old PCT marker on Ebay!



> IM going to get
> the news media in on this.

PLEASE don't try to bring attention to this.  if you want to waste your 
time with some wacky earth-burger-left-wing-extremist agenda that does 
more harm than good to the trees you are trying to protect, then I 
guess that's your business.  But I am pleading with you not to bring 
attention to yourself because people like you do much more harm than 
good to the environmentalist cause.  People like you make a very bad 
name for conservationists who are trying to work with commercial 
interests in order to come to equitable and just solutions for 
wilderness management.  

The commercial interests already have a significant leg up on those who 
want to conserve the wilderness because they are well-funded and 
because those in control of our government at the moment are very 
sypathetic to their cause.  Extremists like yourself only serve to win 
more support for the commercial interests because the middle-roaders 
look at someone like you and say "that guys a nut and an idiot", then 
they vote against anything and anyone that supports legitimate 
environment conservation.

I am definitely FOR conserving our national treasures like wilderness 
areas, parks, forests, wetlands, etc, but this is *NOT* the way to go 
about it.  Right now, we just need to keep the corporate interests from 
logging, mining, and drilling in our protected areas.  There is a huge 
push to "put our public lands to work", and part of Bush's "Healthy 
Forest Initiative" would allow logging, mining, and drilling in places 
like Yellowstone!  If you are concerned about protecting the 
environment, you will write your congressman and tell him that you do 
not like that initiative and that you do not want him to supoort it.  I 
know that its not as glamourous or high-profile and calling a bunch of 
attention to yourself by hiking the PCT with your crow-bar and removing 
every PCT marker, but I guarantee you that it will be much more 
effective.

peace,
dude

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