Re: [RC] re: Bryce and wilderness - Truman Prevatt
Joe, good luck with that. The Wilderness Act was passed in 1964. Today
changing it to allow endurance rides will elicited opposition from
environmental lobbies that will mean it will never happen. It's time
for the AERC to address the issue that if riders want endurance rides
through Wilderness land, they figure out how to come into compliance
with the Wilderness Act.
Bottom line the AERC membership is 5 to 6 K - we are a minority. It's
not like we have the numbers to swing a change in the Wilderness Act.
Truman
Joe Long wrote:
I cannot agree. We've been losing endurance trails to Wilderness
designations for a long time, the Alabama ride lost a beautiful trail
to it over 20 years ago. There is nothing about competing vs. just
riding that has anything to do with preservation, or wilderness. I'd
say we need to try to persuade our legislators to amend the Wilderness
rules to allow events such as endurance rides as long as no structures
are built and no permanent markers are used.
Until some accommodation like that is made, I will oppose all
expansions of wilderness -- as it is now it locks up vast tracts of OUR
public land to be the playground of a tiny minority.
-- “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in
higher
esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct
him to
hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think
differently.”Friedrich Nietzsche
