Check out this article for more info about how the stimulus money will be spent on trails. It looks like it's mostly for projects that are within national park service domain:<br><br><a href="http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/808">http://www.backpacker.com/blogs/808</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">"The stimulus bill calls for "$15 million for historic preservation,
$146 million for deferred maintenance and 'critical repair and
rehabilitation projects,' and $589 million for replacing facilities and
equipment and cleaning abandoned mine sites."</blockquote><div><br>-Philip Sugg<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:10:25 GMT<br>Subject: [Cdt-l] Stimulating the trails<br>Am I crazy or did I hear that the Congress included some $500 million (or was it a billion?...the numbers are all running together these days) for the Interior Dept. and their park projects? What's the implication of this for the CDT? Anybody in the know? later-lynne
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