[at-l] RE: The ATC

[Snodrog5 at aol.com (Snodrog5@aol.com)]

"just an acknowledgement that a pretty small cross-section of 
the various ethnic/cultural/class groups in the US are found on our 
trails."
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A very important thing to acknowledge, too. Our's is a National Trail, and is 
mostly important to only a particular part of that nation. Demographics say 
that 'particular part' is becoming smaller each day. In the years to come, when 
the AT will face harder challenges than any of us can possibly imagine, what 
will the majority feel about something that is only important to a small 
minority? It behooves us to reach out to non-traditional trail users, so that when 
the time comes they too will have a stake in preserving the AT.
Teej