Re: symposium

[Teddy Lancaster <Teddy@runningbear.com>]

Yes, Yes, YES!!!!  I went to the Trails Symposium with a chip on my shoulder, I was
MAD.  The unreasonable closing of trails, the charging of user fees for trails that
are almost impassable, etc., etc...

BUT, I left with it GONE, I mean GONE!!!!  Great lectures, a true spirit od
cooperation and one of SHARING and COMMUNICATION was inherent.

I am simply too busy right now to give a complete disertation, but Glen Wood, the
director of the symposium, promises to have a great write-up on the website.

As a result of this symposium, I, among MANY others, have a true feeling of hope and
are frantically thinking of ways to enhance communication and get working to get our
trails in good shape and staying open.

I strongly urge the west coast people to go to the Symposium in Tuscon in a few
weeks,  it should be excellent as well.

Teddy  (look at: http://www.strom.clemson.edu/programs/trails)

ML Stockdale wrote:

>         Just wanted to second the opinions of Betsy and Vickie on the 'Horse
> Trails Symposium' held last week in Clemson.  The  three days were
> excellent-full of great, informative lectures and networking.  So many of
> the meetings cause us to leave mad or bored.   This was not the case we
> left excited and energized and ready to try to organize our own regional
> symposium to pass on the information.
>
>         Anyone interested  in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia or  Illinois
> regions   in the Ohio Valley Trails Symposium (or what every it is called)
> please contact me or Teddy.   We are hoping to set something up in late
> winter in Northern KY or southern OH.
>
> Mary Lynn and Greg, who spent yesterday afternoon doing trail work in the
> Daniel Boone National Forest
>
>  giltmead@mis.net