[at-l] The Pecking Order

[RussDade@aol.com (RussDade@aol.com)]

In a message dated 05/15/2001 11:10:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
spiriteagle99@hotmail.com writes:


> I spent a couple hours today working my way through a Pennsylvania DCNR News 
> Release detailing $30 million in grant money for "Open space, Parks 
> and 
> Recreation".  I thought it was interesting that of the $30 Mil only 
> $4.7 Mil 
> was allocated to anything resembling a trail.  The rest was for parks, 
> greenways, swimming pools, conservation and bureaucratic "initiatives&
> quot;.
> 
> Of the $4.7 Mil - $942K was allocated for ATV, bike and snowmobile trails, 
> $2.3 Mil for Rails-to-Trails, $1.3 Mil for "other" trails (mostly 
> "multi-use") and $101,500 for actual hiking trails.
> 
> That $101,500 breaks down as $66,500 for the Black Forest Trail, $15,000 to 
> repair trail erosion in Sproul State Forest and $20,000 for an AT parking 
> lot at Totts Gap.
> 
> Out of $30 Million.
> 
> Some of you may not understand this - but Pennsylvania has over 8000 miles 
> of marked and maintained hiking trails and the distribution of these grants 
> is a clear signal about where hikers fit in the pecking order as far as the 
> politicians are concerned.
> 
> I'm gonna leave this one hang for a while - but I'll guarantee that we'll 
> revisit it again later.
> 
> Walk softly,
> Jim
> 

All you PA hikers brought this on yourselves!!!

If you didn't do such a damn good job of maintaining
the trails  (for free) they would have given you more money!
:)





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