[at-l] The Other MacKaye Vision

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

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Far be it from me to speak for "the trail community", but what I sense in 
this forum is a clear appreciation for MacKaye and Avery and what they envisioned 
and achieved.  I see, in this forum, an appreciation for those who have 
worked so hard and long to achieve the current level of trail protection, yet 
there's a clear hunger to see further protection of threatened areas.  My view is 
that MacKaye is and always will be remembered as the visionary with the idea of 
the AT, and that Avery is remembered as a hardworking achiever.  

           ***   Please, you're not honestly trying to offer that sterile 
corporate memo language in response?

         Get real, most of the loudest attackers of what I write are 
inarticulate of MacKaye and his intentions and openly abusive over simple discussion 
of them. Most don't even care. 

            MacKaye was the formulator of the AT wilderness plan. Your 'memo' 
above doesn't touch that - which is exactly what I'm talking about.





When this forum is badgered and battered with the notion that MacKaye was 
more than an individual with an idea, that he was feared by politicians because 
of his radical ideas, that there was some conspiracy to head this off, and that 
all other eastern conservation evolved from his 1921 article, THAT'S when 
folks get a bellyfull, call BS and are in turn branded as heretics.

Take Care,

Tim

             ***    Just more negative spin on someone trying to get to the 
real heart of it.

           They knew what MacKaye was doing, they blasted a road right over 
his path. 

           It would be dumb to not realize the most active Appalachian 
conservation today is directly related to MacKaye. Something your blind denials 
failed to realize. And, yes, he is very much feared and planned against today.

           Case in point...






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