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Re: Trails



This is the battle that needs to be fought. There are reasonable
restrictions based on facts and then there are the use of environmental
arguments (with no factual base) as a cover to ban horses. We need to
understand the difference as well, to better fight the second half of the
preceding sentence.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


-----Original Message-----
From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com <CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com>


>In a message dated 3/17/99 8:19:48 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>reshan@deyr.ultranet.com writes:
>
><< >.. I can
> >understand banning ATVs, because they can go flying about, tearing up
trails
> >and being potentially dangerous to pedestrians, but horses don't tear up
> >trails a whole lot...
>
> That depends entirely on the particular trail and on the number of horses.
> I can take you to a number of places where the trails have been badly
> damaged by horse traffic.
> --CMNewell >>
>
>Regulation of sensitive spots is one thing, but banning is something
>altogether different.  Doesn't matter if it is horses or ATV's--it is the
>public's land, and should be administered with public access in mind.
>
>Heidi Smith, DVM
>
>




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