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Mike Leonard Featured In Conservation Magazine
October 29, 2007
Womble Carlyle attorney Mike Leonard's conservation work is recognized in a current article in AT Journeys, the magazine of The Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
In 1985, Mike founded the Alabama Trails Association and those efforts ultimate extended the Appalachian Trail into Alabama. The project, which has taken 22 years to complete, linked the Pinhoti Trail in Alabama's Talladega National Forest to the Appalachian Trail in northern Georgia.
Making this plan a reality required obtaining about 7,400 acres of land in Alabama and Georgia and coordinating efforts with state and federal agencies. "I have actually walked more miles on Capitol Hill working on this project than I have on the trail itself," Mike told the magazine.
The article appears in the September-October, 2007 edition of AT Journeys.
Click here to read the article (PDF format.)
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