East Coast Governors Join Up

The recent signing of a pact by 4 east coast governors is the focus of an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by Don Hopey published on 13 April 2007 under the headline "Program to revive Appalachian Mountains ecosystem, tourism; Federal intiative [sic] seeks to revive economically devastated area." We mentioned the Pennsylvania governor's press release on this a couple days ago.

What Hopey says about the A.T. is this:

"Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, the new program might aid local efforts on the Kittatinny Ridge near Harrisburg where the Blue Mountain/Kittatinny Ridge Conservation Project is already guiding the efforts of 24 local organizations to protect land along the globally important migration route for eagles and hawks.

"It also might support the Appalachian Trail Protection Initiative, which is working with the Appalachian Trail Conference [sic] to protect land adjacent to the trail from development."

...which isn't any more detailed than what was in the other story.