[at-l] Fill in the blanks, please! Thanks!

[rrubin@atconf.org (Robert Rubin)]

Hi Nina, I don't have that statistic, though Laurie Potteiger
(info@atconf.org) might, but I have another that we just used in a National
Park visitor's display from which you might be able to figure it out if you
can get the total US population figure:

"80 million people live in the fourteen states through which the A.T. passes."

Robert Rubin
ATC

 At 8:47 AM -0800 2/1/01, Nina Baxley wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm working on an article for my college alumnae
>magazine, and I need a statistic. I thought I had the
>info, but I can't find it anywhere, and the deadline
>for the article is this tomorrow. It's an oft-quoted
>statistic, however. Does anyone know what goes in the
>"blanks" below? Thanks in advance!
>
>(The AT is) Within _____ miles of ______% of the U.S.
>population ...
>
>Also, if you have the source of that stat, I'd
>appreciate that too.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Waterfall (who is busy at work; otherwise I'd keep
>looking up the info myself)
>
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