OPINION
What good can a trail really do?
There must be more unlikely accomplishments, but I can’t think of one off the top of my head. The task: Build a recreational trail from Wenatchee to Monitor, five miles long, through residential neighborhoods, through working orchards. Do it with minimal local financial burdens. Do it with the support, not in spite of the opposition, of adjacent landowners, including orchardists. There are places where just thinking about that might bring a lawsuit, but not here, not this time. Bob Bugert, executive director of the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust, said his organization will stress this point: “The Land Trust will only do this if the landowners and the shareholders want this.” No 15-year legal battle, as with the still-unbuilt Rocky Reach trail. No growing animosity and resentment. No millions for lawyers.
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