[pct-l] Report Names Washington?s Top 10 Endangered Hiking Trails

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Report Names Washington?s Top 10 Endangered Hiking Trails 
Group Asks Lawmakers to Make Funds Available after Natural Disasters Keep Hikers
at Home 
 
Jun 03, 2004 ? View the Endangered Trails Report. 
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 3, 2004 

Contact: 

Jonathan Guzzo, Washington Trails Association, (206) 625-1367 

Terry DeGrow, Mount Baker Snoqualmie Forest, (425) 744-3400

Vladimir Steblina, Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest (509) 664-9319 

SEATTLE-- Washington Trails Association, the state?s leading hiking trails
advocacy group, today released its annual report of the Top 10 endangered hiking
trails. And as expected, damage from last October?s record-setting flood and
several seasons of intense wildfires have had a devastating impact of many of
the state?s most popular trails. The report finds that the lack of emergency
funding available for repairs from weather-related storm damage could keep some
of the state?s most popular routes closed for years. 

According to the report, the ten most endangered hiking trails in Washington
are: 

1.Pacific Crest Trail, (Suiattle River/Milk Creek Loop) Statewide 
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