[at-l] AT License Plates

[RoksnRoots at aol.com (RoksnRoots@xxxxxxx)]

In a message dated 8/7/2003 11:42:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Snodrog5@aol.com writes:


> Back in July, at-l member Thru-Thinker (aka Clark Wright) told us about 
> this. Congrats, Thru-Thinker on having a great idea and instigating to make it 
> happen! 
> TJ
> 
> >From the ATC website: 
> N.C. Appalachian Trail License Plate Up to the Governor Now
> If Gov. Michael F. Easley signs the bill and if Trail supporters step up to 
> show their connection, the Appalachian Trail Conference could benefit in a 
> major way from a measure passed in the waning hours of the North Carolina 
> General Assembly's session last month. The bill authorizes a special Appalachian 
> Trail license plate if 300 Tar Heel drivers sign up for it. It would cost $50 
> a year, with $20 earmarked for ATC projects in North Carolina, home to about 
> 285 miles of the A.T. (counting border-straddling stretches) and more than 
> 3,000 ATC members. State Senator Joe Sam Queen has been the champion of the 
> measure all year, with ATC member Clark Wright a significant instigator from 
> outside the legislature. Queen ? an architect who also is involved in many 
> bluegrass music festivals within reach of the Trail ? represents a western North 
> Carolina district and lives near Asheville.
> August 4, 2003 
> 



        ***    Thank you TJ for your support of internet AT advocacy. A year 
or so ago I brought forth a post asking whether or not an AT check-off box on 
a tax form wouldn't be a good way of creating revenue for AT conservation. 
>From this productive advocacy thread a discussion ensued where I brought up the 
idea of an AT license plate for the same reason. Clark saw it and ran with it, 
using his legal background as an 'in' with the state. 

         I find it particularly telling that those who reflexively bash Trail 
support outside hiking chat then come in and give credit after the fact 
-while the whole time either ignoring, discouraging, (or denying) the same. I think 
this tendency pretty much directly translates to other sites and persons 
urging active AT support as well as the lack of accurate recognition as well. 
There's obviously a conflict there that speaks for itself. This idea was brought 
to AT-L by myself under the purpose of advocacy-type support for the AT via the 
internet. It is now having a direct and material positive effect on the 
Trail. I thank Clark for his capable follow through and effort for the AT (As I do 
anyone who works for material end results for the AT)...



 




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