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Re: [RC] [RC] the best places to ride - Ranelle Rubin

I can attest to the beauty of Barbara's ride..!! I especially loved the single track out of the lunch stop..! I thought I had died and gone to "endurance Heaven"!!



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From: "Barbara McCrary" <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sisu West Ranch" <ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [RC]   the best places to ride
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:46:18 -0700

Interestingly enough, some of the best areas to ride are forests that have been harvested and have forest access roads built there. Many privately owned forests allow riding by special permission during times when harvesting is not actually taking place.
Two active forests tracts are used in our 100-mile ride; one of them is ours. The owners and managers of the other one have graciously allowed us to use their roads for our ride for 25 years.
Without the forest access roads, no one would be able to ride there at all, due to the inaccessibility of the terrain. I've always maintained that forest access roads make some of the greatest riding.
Most of the riding areas in our local state park were once such.

Barbara
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Sisu West Ranch
  To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 8:10 AM
  Subject: Re: [RC] the best places to ride


One of the best places we ride has been preserved by Elk Hunters. They purchased a calving area and graciously allow the public to use it for recreation when the elk are not calving.

Some groups would like everyone to forget that HUNTERS do a tremendous job of conservation. Billions (that's right billions) of dollars have been raised by the voluntary (that is hunters lobbied hard for it) 10% tax on firearms and ammunition. I won't even mention ducks or pheasants unlimited.

Yesterday on the radio I heard a commercial for a well known group that was soliciting folk to put their land into a trust to prevent development etc. The only thing that bothered me was that they specifically mentioned that this would protect the area from (apparently) evil hunters.


Ed

PS. While I endorse regulated hunting (the only kind we have), aside from scaring a few pheasants I have never hunted.

  Ed & Wendy Hauser
  2994 Mittower Road
  Victor, MT 59875

(406) 642-9640

ranch(at)sisuwest(dot)us



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