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[pct-l] Leave No Trace postings
Hello All -
Back a ways (Feb. or so), I posted a couple of messages to this list on a
subject that is near and dear to my heart...the national "Leave No Trace"
minimum-impact backcountry use education program.
Kurt was kind enough to copy some of the info from one of them to the AT-L
and ATML lists. I decided that it wasn't fair to everybody (or to LNT!) to
just look at one narrow part of the important LNT message...so I added a
little...
Actually it turned into a bunch of littles...the whole LNT series grew into
15 messages by the time I was done <g>. I even wound up adding a survey at
the end of the series to help me get some feedback on how to make the whole
complex issue more "user friendly" to us backcountry users.
I got some excellent suggestions from the AT folks (AT-L and ATML lists),
both from the discussion that followed the postings and from the survey
returns. I added many of the suggested changes in and tweaked the messages
a bit to better fit our interests here on PCT-L.
I will post a couple of the messages each day for the next week or so. The
first message has "Subject: LNT 1 - Why me?" and the rest all have "LNT n
-..." in the subject fields...ending with "Subject: LNT 15 - Wrap up!". I
will post the survey as a separate message after "LNT 15".
One of the suggestions on a survey return was to shorten the messages up a
bit and "give us the Reader's Digest version of the LNT program". I had to
write the fellow back and tell him that I HAD <VBG>. The "long" version
can be found in "Soft Paths"...the first book in the bibliography contained
in "LNT 15".
I am VERY interested in getting suggestions from ALL the folks on PCT-L!
I know that many of us are already very familiar with the LNT program...I
hope that you can help me improve the delivery. I know that some of us
THINK that we are familiar with LNT...I hope that these messages will be
able to provide a little more of the basic reasoning behind the program
than there is usually room for on a trailhead display or in a quickie email
message. I know that some of us have never looked into LNT...I hope that
these messages will get you as interested in the program as I became <g>.
A lot of the fun is in the discussion that always follows some parts of the
LNT presentations. Interestingly, one of the major topics on the AT-L and
ATML lists was related to meeting horses on the trail...and the AT (almost)
ain't got none <g>.
Let me know what you think...during and after the series!
Trace No Leaves,
- Charlie II AT (MEGA'93)
PCT (Mex@Can'95)
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