AT License Plates

[Patco]

Are other states jumping on board, other than NC, with the AT license plate program? Well, while posting here I answered my own question. Here are the links for info and ordering:

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trailnews/nc_plate.html

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trai...Tplate_rev.pdf

I think they are beautiful and not too costly, especially when you see where the funding goes.

[attroll]

Are other states jumping on board, other than NC, with the AT license plate program? Well, while posting here I answered my own question. Here are the links for info and ordering:

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trailnews/nc_plate.html

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trai...Tplate_rev.pdf

I think they are beautiful and not too costly, especially when you see where the funding goes.

I would get one if Maine started it. I bet you can not guess what my License plate reads now? I will give you a hint. It is 6 letters.

[Desert Lobster]

I would get one if Maine started it. I bet you can not guess what my License plate reads now? I will give you a hint. It is 6 letters.

Would be tough giving up my loon plate for an AT plate!

[attroll]

I got my license plate:

http://www.whiteblaze.net/gallery/sh...php?photo=2859

[Jersey Bob]

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[walkin' wally]

In Maine the loon license plate funds that have done so much in the past to contribute dedicated money to the outdoors and wildlife needs are now being partially siphoned off to the State general fund to fill shortfalls in the budget. In the first round the state took $60,000 worth of loon plate generated funds. I hope other states don't follow this example.

[U-BOLT]

Loon plate, cool. Does Maine have an AT plate?

Also do you find loons south of Maine? (the non-human kind, that is)

[Hammock Hanger]

WOW!! That is way prudy, if I lived in NC I would be in line for one. Unfortunately I doubt they will ever show up here in FLORIDA. I do have a "Save the FL Panther Plate" with BACPKR on it. It cost me an additional $50.00 a year but goes to a good cause.

ATTRoll I really like the W/B plate. Sue/HH

[Lilred]

I have a 'friends of the Smokies' license plate from Tennessee. Some of the proceeds do go to trail and shelter maintenance on the AT in the Smokies.

[TJ aka Teej]

Does Maine have an AT plate?

Also do you find loons south of Maine?

No AT plate. Loons seldom breed south of New Hampshire on the east coast. I've seen winter loons off South Carolina.

[Chip]

I have a NC friends of the Smokies tag BUT NC is working on a AT tag. Hope to change as soon as it is ready.

Chip

[Chappy]

In Maine the loon license plate funds that have done so much in the past to contribute dedicated money to the outdoors and wildlife needs are now being partially siphoned off to the State general fund to fill shortfalls in the budget. In the first round the state took $60,000 worth of loon plate generated funds. I hope other states don't follow this example.

There's a short article in today's Stars and Stripes (2 April) about Maines's loon license plate. Stated the craze has worn off. Sales in1994 inauguaral year was 59,829 and rose to 110,625 in 1998. Sales in 2002 fell to 79,704.

[Brushy Sage]

A notice in the newsletter for Carolina Mountain Club indicates that the required 300 subscriptions having been achieved, the North Carolina AT license plate will go into production soon.

[TakeABreak]

I know these plates are for a good cause, and I think that, that is great. But the fact that I have to re-register my vehicle every year irritates the **** out or me. WHy can't it be a one time fee, as long as you own the vehicle like the plates on government vehicles, notice how they say permanent. But, I guess this digress should be for another thread, so I will stop.

My question here is, is it a one time fee for the plate or do you have to pay extra every year??

[The Scribe]

One reason I have heard about the drop in Maine Loon Plate sales is that when they first came out, the regular Maine plate was God awful. It was white with a red boiled lobster in the middle that we affectionately called the cockroach. So people, aside from trying to do a good deed, got a better looking plate.

Now the Maine plate has changed to a chickadee and they don't look half bad. So some people are dropping back to those. There is also a new lobster edition to benefit the lobster fishery as well as a University of Maine plate.

I have a Loon and plan to keep it.

http://www.worldlicenceplates.com/usa/US_ME2X.html

http://www.worldlicenceplates.com/usa/US_MEXX.html

pcm

[Brushy Sage]

I know these plates are for a good cause, and I think that, that is great. But the fact that I have to re-register my vehicle every year irritates the **** out or me. WHy can't it be a one time fee, as long as you own the vehicle like the plates on government vehicles, notice how they say permanent. But, I guess this digress should be for another thread, so I will stop.

My question here is, is it a one time fee for the plate or do you have to pay extra every year??

Probably extra each year, and a portion of the extra amount goes toward AT maintenance in the state.

[Patco]

My check cleared the bank so my plate should be arriving, installed and being admired by all NC tailgaters very soon.

[weary]

There's a short article in today's Stars and Stripes (2 April) about Maines's loon license plate. Stated the craze has worn off. Sales in1994 inauguaral year was 59,829 and rose to 110,625 in 1998. Sales in 2002 fell to 79,704.

The change has little to do with the rise and fall of conservation interest. Maine had the ugliest license plate in the nation -- a depiction of a flying dead lobster. People flocked to the loon plate. Anything to get a boiled lobster off their cars. Unfortunately, the lobster was abandoned in favor of a pretty chicadee plate and loon sales plummeted. Most of the income from loon plate sales go to the Department of Conservation, with a small portion going to Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, I think -- except, of course, during (annual) budget crises.

Weary

[walkin' wally]

Yes, annual budget crises... Regularly scheduled chaos. Rob from Peter to pay Paul.