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[at-l] Cell Phones -- Perception



>"...That cell tower was as much a fantasy as MacKaye's devotion to a wilderness 
preservation scheme for the AT. Work Camps, Lumber Yards, Insane Asylums 
and more should allow even old codgers to understand just how "civilized" 
the AT would have become if more effective leadership hadn't asserted 
itself - assuming that it didn't die as a pipe dream," thinks Orange Bug.

Even us "old codgers" know better than to argue with a psychiatrist with a mind closed to the facts. Mackaye spent his life thinking and dreaming. His original AT piece in a regional planning journal was aimed at a narrow, and very tiny audience of specialists. It called for the protection of a broad swath of land along the high ridges of the Appalachians, providing plenty of laND for both the trail and his other pet projects. Only the trail part of the plan caught the public's fancy -- thanks mostly to a New York newspaper columnist. Mackaye never again mentioned workcamps and lumber yards, and such. He did quickly evolve into believing in the importance of wilderness, which is why he bitterly opposed the ridgetop drives and with Bob Marshall, created the wilderness Society.

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