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[at-l] Trail maintenance



Well good thing he was an incompetent terrorist anyway.


> 
> >"...Here's what passes for trail maintenance out in New Mexico:"
> 
> 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.
> 
>    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
> 
> 
> 
>     Bob
> 
> 
> 
>