Regrettably - today is the last day of Blogging For Appalachia Week. I am thrilled at the response and awareness the program has generated and hope interest doesn’t get lost on the topic.
I sincerely want to thank the Outdoor Bloggers Summit for first initiating the challenge and second for the huge response from it’s members. I actually thought, when I first started blogging about MTR, everyone was aware but just didn’t care or whatever. As I quickly found out, the issue wasn’t people didn’t care - the issue was they weren’t aware. This in turn led to the creation of the Stop MTR blog which is primarily an educational tool.
I hope and pray those I have made aware of the destruction in our mountains continue with what they believe is the right thing. I personally don’t intend to stop blogging about the destruction until someone takes notice. It is just wrong the things that are happening to our communities and our mountains.
Before I start ranting - I just want to say thanks to all that blogged about MTR this week - both from within the outdoor community and outside of it.
Just so you are aware - I will continue with the Blogging For Appalachia program on this and the Stop MTR blogs indefinitely. If you blog about the destruction in the mountains - let me know.
Thank You.
A Blessed Crazy Life
Bright Idea Outdoors
Colin - Life
Deer Camp Blog
Gun Safety Innovations
Lateral Lines
Low Country Hunting
Outdoor Bloggers Summit - Kristine
Outdoor Bloggers Summit - Marian
Outdoors With Othmar Vohringer
Pennsylvania Backwoods
Ruminations Of A Country Girl
South Jersey Outdoors
The Forging of a Man
The Hunter’s Wife
The Rasch Outdoor Chronicles
Timber Life
Two Square Meals
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February 8th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Glad to see you got the addthis button installed! This post is now “dug” on digg, and i also stumbled it. If your readers start using this to “bookmark” your posts, your site will get out there more, so every1 dig this and stumble it!
Also I recommend the stuble toolbar for firefox, it makes it easy to add sites to stumbleupon, as well as if you are bored, u hit the stumble button and getting taken to a random site that matches interests you have selected. Its like channel surfing for the web! You can get this at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138
February 8th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Denny,
I’m glad the OBS Blogging for Appalachia Challenge got so much response. You should also add Timber Life to your list. She has added a post as well.
I’m guessing the posts won’t stop just because the challenge has ended. People are fired up now and hopefully they’ll keep on writing.
February 9th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Thanks Brian
Kristine - I think it is great how so many people got involved. I hope they do keep writing about it.
February 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
i ditto kristine…. such a great response for the first go around! and people know now… like i have said before, once you know, it’s hareder NOT to spread the word.
hope you have a great weekend, denny!
February 10th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I love what your doing here. Keep up the good work.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Thanks Blue and Burgey