Misc. Responses

[Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>]

Two things:

I've gotten quite a few good responses on the trailer question. Everybody
says buy removable steel dividers. I'm sorry I'm not answering ya'll
seperately when you went to so much trouble to answer me in detail, but
school's started back and my time is now very limited.

Now, if you'll allow me, as a defender of trails I'd like to blow off
some steam!  Like I said, we're back in school (I teach Art) and I
decided to do a bulletin board profiling the new faculty members.  As I
interviewed a new English teacher she informed me that she is "a
published poet, go her MA at Amhurst, a vegetarian and an
environmentalist."  I said, "Oh really, do you spend much time in the
woods"?  "Oh no, none at all".  So, I couldn't help myself, I said, "Are
you *for* increasing the amount of Wilderness lands in the U.S.?" She
said, "Absolutely". By now I am leaning forward and starting to grind my
teeth. Here I have a focus for all the frustration I feel when I see
these stupid polls asking me to "click here if you are in favor of more
wilderness".  I said, "Listen, there is a State Forest near here with 80
miles of hiking and horse trails. EVERY time there's an ice storm there
are hundreds of trees that fall down blocking that trail. There are about
12 horsemen who VOLUNTARILY go down there and work all day with chainsaws
to clear it. If you get it declared Wilderness, it can only be cleared
with a crosscut saw...which means it WILL NOT BE CLEARED. We're out there
using these places and donating our time and people who like the sound of
the word "Wilderness" but who NEVER LEAVE AN AIR CONDITIONED ROOM are
ruining everything...If there's 100,000 acres and you rule people off of
90,000 of them, what do you think that does to the other 10,000 acres?
There's the same amount of people and you have now increased the impact
horribly."  

I could tell she still thought she was right, and she managed to mention
*again* that she'd been PUBLISHED (but that she hadn't been paid)...so I
happened to *mention* that I write for a couple of magazines...>preen<

I think I'll be eating large slabs of red meat in front of this teacher
in the lounge. >eg<

Angie
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