Wayspot Appeal Educational Trail

General Discussion
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This is an official spot marked on an interpretive trail. The trail location’s significance is explained in the PFD available on the park’s site here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprd3823536.pdf
This is a significant location along a marked trail, with easily verified from the site.

  • Wayspot Title: Food For Everyone - Woodland Trail Marker 15
  • Location (lat/lon): 34.240754,-116.851032,22975
  • City: Big Bear Lake CA
  • Country: USA
  • Screenshot of the Rejection Email (do not include your personal information):
  • Additional Information (if any):

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Screenshot of the PDF distributed by the park with the location description and the spot on the map circled.

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Thanks. Now i know u can eat pine nut raw.:grin:

Anyway its great educational trail

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I love this nomination and have submitted similar. IMO, this encourages exploration. I love adding the details linked in the brochure to the photo of the sign. I would have accepted this easily.

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But i wonder. Is it rejected by community and even by appeal team?

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OMG I ate SO MANY pine nuts that week! They were so amazingly tasty!! And they were everywhere. You pay so much for them at the store, and they were just laying everywhere on the ground!

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Yep, that’s why I am escalating it. I cannot go back and re-nominate, and I truly believe it is a legitimate nomination.

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This is clearly a wrong appeal rejection reason. Like most trail signs the actual sign is bland but the educational information is provided elsewhere in a leaflet. That should be the focus not the sign which is simply an anchor.

PS I had to look up interpretive trail - seems to be a US term, and that more commonly it has information boards at each location but a leaflet was mentioned.

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Yes, it’s likely a US terminology, but that’s also why I linked and took a screenshot of the pamplet.

I’d offer to share some of the pine nuts, but I ate them all. Here is a photo of the ones I harvested that day with a dollar bill for scale.

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