[pct-l] Why California's Trails Are Disappearing From Our Maps

[Daniel Zellman]

Well, I guess it's a matter of priorities, right? If we (as a society)
truly valued these trails, we would pay to maintain them. You can get a
pretty clear idea of any given society's priorities by looking at its
budget. I could go on, but this is ultimately a political discussion, and
as such probably doesn't belong here, when folks are trying to plan their
2014 thru-hikes.

-dz
(co-captain, Team no Hurries)


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Rob Langsdorf <sdscpcts at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dan,
>
>     If we would lower the minimum wage to a buck an hour we could probably
> afford doing it by hand. But with the current political game pushing for
> higher minimums we can't. Therefore there is a need to go to machinery.
>
>                Rob
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Daniel Zellman <danielzellman at gmail.com>
> To: PCT-L <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Why California's Trails Are Disappearing From Our Maps
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Rob Langsdorf <sdscpcts at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> >trails in the Wilderness can't be maintained due to the fact
> >that you can't use machinery in Forest Service Wilderness areas.
>
> Many -- perhaps most -- of these trails were originally created long before
> the use of powered machinery. Truth be told, people have been creating
> trails for millennia, and have only had powered tools for the past 100
> years or so. I agree with Diane's earlier comment -- so many people need
> work, so much work needing to be done, seems a shame we can't follow
> Roosevelt's lead and create a WPA for the 21st century.
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