http://www.recumbum.com/2007/10/flint-hills-nature-trail/ Musings of a Recumbent Bicycle Bum Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.recumbum.com/2007/10/flint-hills-nature-trail/#comment-4557 Sean Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:04:11 +0000 http://www.recumbum.com/2007/10/flint-hills-nature-trail/#comment-4557 Thomas Franks mentioned in <i>What's the Matter With Kansas</i> that only in Kansas would something like a trail be the issue that it is, when elsewhere it would be seen (correctly) as something beneficial for society as a whole. Add to this the fact that Kansas has the least amount of public land of any state in the nation and you realize that these landowners are simply being fanatical about their "rights" and paranoid about the potential problems of having a trail run along side (or through) their property. I wonder if these same people fuss about the roads that run adjacent to their land, since those also provide access. At the end of the day, I think it's clear that these small-minded people are simply too ignorant and mean-spirited to see the benefits that the Flint Hills Nature Trail will provide. Thomas Franks mentioned in What’s the Matter With Kansas that only in Kansas would something like a trail be the issue that it is, when elsewhere it would be seen (correctly) as something beneficial for society as a whole. Add to this the fact that Kansas has the least amount of public land of any state in the nation and you realize that these landowners are simply being fanatical about their “rights” and paranoid about the potential problems of having a trail run along side (or through) their property. I wonder if these same people fuss about the roads that run adjacent to their land, since those also provide access. At the end of the day, I think it’s clear that these small-minded people are simply too ignorant and mean-spirited to see the benefits that the Flint Hills Nature Trail will provide.

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