I agree. Not all of the trail is on public land, but that sort of thing would be helped a great deal by having an adequate number of law enforcement rangers patrolling the Appalachian Trail land managed by the National Park Service. But there are <i>nowhere near</i> the number of rangers employed by the NPS as are necessary to have broadly effective enforcement.<p>I&#x27;m on a flight right now, and am not readily finding concrete figures to support this, but I am a member of the Association of National Park Rangers (though not a ranger myself) and have a little bit of familiarity with related issues.