1 February 2009
Cedarlands - In the News!
Posted by Gazpacho under: General .
I’ve let this site grow dormant. Honestly, part of it was just fatigue. I was tired of the battle, and had resigned myself somewhat to the fact that I wasn’t going to be able to actually change anything. The trees were cut. More were going to be cut. I wasn’t having any impact on policy, and the only thing I was accomplishing was ticking off people at the Council level.
It turns out the local story about Cedarlands has been wrapped up into a much larger, national story put together by a collection of Hearst newspapers. The Albany Times Union has a full roundup here . For those interested mainly in the Cedarlands part , check here.
The San Francisco Chronicle has picked up the story, and so has the Seattle Post-Intelligencer . The stories overlap by about 80-90%. The have all sorts of stuff about scouts in general, as well as stories about scout land usage all across America.
For my part, I’d like to offer two quick corrections…
- I am not the scoutmaster for our troop. I’m only the Assistant scoutmaster.
- It was a Cherokee, not a Cessna.
By comparison, it seems that what happened at Cedarlands wasn’t nearly as bad as what’s happened to other camps. Lucky us.
So, with this as inspiration, I’m hoping to get back in the game. I’ll try over the next few weeks to finally get that list of questions over to my friend Mark Miller and see what kind of responses we get.
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