[at-l] The Other MacKaye Vision

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

In a message dated 7/25/2005 6:52:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
Snodrog5@aol.com writes:
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It's astonishing how little R&R knows about the object of his adoration.
For R&R's education:
1. Regional Planning shows MacKaye's proposed Trail was not built. 

      ***  Enough of it was to carry out the natural conservation part of his 
plan. It isn't any astonishingly revealing thing to say his plan wasn't 
built. Everyone knows that. It's the reasons why his plan wasn't built that are 
important. Also, how the Trail presently suffers because of it.

       It would be interesting to imagine what would have happened to the 
Project if it had been built according to the original social 
management/conservation plan. The WPA/CCC era faded after the late 1930's. I can imagine 
politicians would have thought of some excuse to call the Project too expensive and 
broke it up. Never the less, it is interesting to speculate how many of the 
national forest tracts would have survived as buffer.



2. The Trail we have today is much better than the one proposed by MacKaye.


         ***  Oh, of course, never mind the huge developments currently 
destroying it that would not have occurred with MacKaye's plan.

          TJ is ignoring my explanations that MacKaye planned a solid wild 
corridor within his "developed" parts of the Project (camps, farms, and timber 
lots), so I won't repeat them again.



3. Today's Trail wasn't created by MacKaye.


       ***   I previously asked anyone to show how the AT could have existed 
without MacKaye. No one answered. The tragedy of TJ's insulting dismissal of 
MacKaye's real influence is it ignores how many Trail features were actually 
directly attributed to MacKaye and his efforts. Part of the reason he doesn't 
get credit for what he did influence is the socialist stigma some 
conservatively-intransigent use as psychological transference in order to avoid recognition 
of his viable conservation plans.

        It's obvious that the unnatural need to remove MacKaye or his 
influence from the AT is only a contrived attempt to deny the obvious.



4. Read "Benton MacKaye: Conservationist, Planner, and Creator of the 
Appalachian Trail." by Larry Anderson. After you do, come back to the list 
with your 
new knowledge, and we'll help you come to terms with 1, 2., & 3.


             ***    Prove what I said to be wrong first Teej. (I see you 
stopped calling me "Roxy")




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