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Old February 5th 09, 04:12 PM posted to alt.mountain-bike,rec.bicycles.soc,rec.backcountry,ca.environment,sci.environment
Mike Vandeman
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Default How the Typical Environmentalist Treats Horses Damaging Trails

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 03:26:44 -0800 (PST), Kayak44
wrote:

On Feb 4, 11:54*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:18:31 -0800 (PST), Kayak44





wrote:
On Feb 3, 9:01*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 05:50:45 -0800 (PST), Siskuwihane


wrote:
On Jan 31, 11:09*pm, Mike Vandeman wrote:
\"I have lived in Marin since the 50s and have been riding horses here
since 1962. *I would like to share two of my experiences of why I
believe that horses and bicycles on single track trails are oil and
water. *snip BSTwo horses weighting 1000 lbs. with
riders perched on top, making them about 7 ft. tall and she couldn't
see us. *I rest my case."


2000 lbs of horses on a trail, imagine the damage cause by those
animals and yet Michael J. Vandeman is defending them instead of
trying to get them banned.


Horses are native to North America and have a right to go wherever
they like. Bikes have no rights whatsoever. DUH!


But you claimed the native horses were wiped out by early humans,
these are not native horses, thus they do not belong.


We need to restore the horse to North America, just as we need to
restore the grizzly to California, because we wiped out both of them.


Maybe we should also restore polio while we're at it.


Yes, of course. But humans are too selfish to do so.

Humans belong here a heck of a lot less than horses.


If you really believed that, you would have removed yourself from this
planet a long time ago. You're still around because you are selfish.


Leave it to a selfish mountain biker to miss the point. If you
actually believed what you just said, you would have committed suicide
long ago.

Selfish people like mountain bikers can't understand doing anything to benefit some
one else, or wildlife.


See above.
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I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)

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