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If you want a reliable source of funding for trails, you will need a specific revenue source. Something like excise taxes on shoes, bicycles, tires, tubes, etc... When you start pursuing such activities, rather than acting as a typical special interest group seeking to save your piece of the shrinking pie you might get something useful accomplished. QUOTE]

Kind of like sportsmen have been "paying to play" for years. Everyone wants a piece of the pie, but no one wants to supply the apples.

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