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[at-l] Trail maintenance
Well good thing he was an incompetent terrorist anyway.
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> >"...Here's what passes for trail maintenance out in New Mexico:"
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> All of which tells us absolutely nothing that is in anyway related to the
> Appalachian Trail, or any trails, anywhere, or even about the
> environment. Well,
> perhaps it does remind us again that there are environmental nuts
> as well as
> religious nuts, right wing nuts, gun nuts, and sundry other nuts
> in this world.
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> In 35 years as a reporter covering the "environment," I almost
> never wrote
> the word "environmentalist" because it had no meaning in the
> real world. Most
> "environmental" battles in my experience were conducted by
> people protecting
> their neighborhoods.
>
> That in no way means to suggest that these were not important
> issues; only
> that the label "environmentalist" was about on a par with
> calling a spouse
> with a thing about a clean house an environmentalist.
>
> Weary
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> Bob
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