[at-l] No Hunting?

[wdlists@optonline.net (Walter Daniels)]

The lands are permanently protected but we may have to live with the rules
the landowner sets or agrees to in an MOU. There are no private lands that
are listed as protected that I am aware of. Some places it is on private
land but with an easement, e.g. many RR and powerline crossings. One of the
unprotected pieces is in NY where it crosses a powerline and they won't sign
the easement - now in eminent domain court. In NY it is on a Nature
Conservancy property with an easement that says no camping. So it all hinges
on exactly what one means by permanently protected. Right of passage is
protected, but the freedom to set the rules is not.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rick boudrie [mailto:rickboudrie@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:35 PM
> To: wdlists@optonline.net; at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: RE: [at-l] No Hunting?
>
>
> >I have not seen the ATC/NPS MOU with PA, but if it is typical,
> then  > it
> >comes up for renewal every 5 years and most issues are back on
> the > table.
> >
>
> Thanks, Walt.
>
> Here is a follow up:  Why does the ATC consider virtually all the
> Trail to
> be permanently protected if passage of the footpath is subject to renewed
> MOUs?
>
> I had just assumed (yea, I know) that when miles of the AT were
> reported to
> be permanently protected in the back of each months ATN, that
> some sort of
> permanent easement or out-right ownership interest had been
> obtained.  Are
> the private lans which are reported to be permanently protected that also
> subject to renewal of agreements?
>
> Rick B
>
>
>
>
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