[at-l] AMC's "miscues" in the 100 Mile

[ellen at clinic.net (Bob C.)]

A most fascinating dialogue. The most exciting development involving protection
of the Appalachian Trail since the Sterling Forest decisions a decade ago --
37,000 acres and 20 miles of trail buffers.

 I posted first on the day the exciting development was announced by no less
 than the Governor of Maine. The list may or may not have been down. I posted
 again when I first could contact the list two days later, mentioning the
 exciting news and added a link to a very fair and reasoned analysis of the
 acquisition.

 The first response was a post that called this "A rape of the
 100-mile-wilderness." I saw the rape charge as I was leaving this morning for
 an all day meeting on ways to protect the trail from being a wind power
 industrial site. In the 30 seconds I had before leaving, I tried to suggest
 that the rape charge was crap and that no one should take it seriously.

 I returned after six hours of intense wind power discussion involving how to
 raise and spend $50,000, maybe $100,000, in defense of the trail, only to find
 not one post excited about this trail protection development, but a half dozen
 posts praising the "news" that the most environmentally sensitive Governor in
 decades is a "paper company whore."

 Tell me again that this is a responsible list and that Wingfoot was wrong in
 breaking away to do his own thing.

 Weary