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[RC] Auburn - Stephanie_D_Adair

There seem to be a million ways we can lose our trails; public lands,
private lands, National Forest red-tape, development, it goes on and on.
But look what I've attached.  Can you believe THIS?  Living in the suburbs
requires us to have to haul to nearby places for an enjoyable ride.  "Jones
Park" as we call it is a very popular place with local riders, lots of
beautiful marked trails.  It's sometimes so crowded with rigs on the
weekends there is no place to park.  Well, NOW it's a weekend park only.
Can you believe the reason we've lost it during the week???  I'm ill.





Jones State Forest Closed Because Of Illicit Sex
Posted: 10:24 a.m. CST February 27, 2003
CONROE, Texas -- Mounting complaints about homosexual trysts at W.G. Jones
State Forest have prompted the Texas Forest Service to close the 1,725-acre
reserve on weekdays.


The Houston-area park, which until last year had been closed on weekdays
for several years because of the same problem, has returned to that status
again, except by reservation. It remains open on weekends, when it is busy
with families from Montgomery County.


Jim Hull, the Forest Service's director in College Station, told The
Courier he took "swift action" after the newspaper passed along a litany of
reader complaints about the park. Hull said his agency doesn't have the
personnel to patrol regularly.


"It is so disgusting to have to close the facility from hundreds of kids
and families for something like this," Hull said.


The forest, acquired by the state in 1926, is named for Texas Forestry
Association founder W. Goodrich Jones. It is stocked with native loblolly
pine and various hardwoods, and is one of two state forests that hosts the
endangered red cockaded woodpecker.


It is located on Farm-to-Market Road 1488, just south of Conroe.
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.






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