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Mountain Biker Admits that Mountain Bikers Are Not Environmentalists!
Exactly what I have been saying for about 15 years. Mountain bikers
are VERY slow to admit the truth. Mike To: cree_anthony From: "Ronald Long" Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:51:52 -0700 Subject: House approves Wild Sky wilderness in Washington state If there's one thing I've learned since joining the BBTC, it's how unbelievably naive I used to be - thinking that of course mountain bikers would be environmentalists. I may be the only one on this list, but I'm delighted that the Wild Sky wilderness area was created. I agree that it's unfortunate and wrong that bikes are excluded from places that horses are allowed, and would love to help change that. But the world is much bigger than the one we see with our "I wanna ride there" blinders on, and, in that larger world, there is a desperate need to preserve places that are relatively untouched by us wonderful humans. If you can't relate to the spiritual value of those places, perhaps you can think of them as repositories of fascinating DNA, that the drug companies will get around to exploiting to create new drugs. ronald On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM, cree_anthony wrote: Of course, now they'll move on to the next 'last unprotected stand of whatever'. With this having portions that have been previously logged and roads and bridges in it, this proposal didn't even meet the requirements of the Wilderness act, that's why Pombo had killed it a couple years ago. I wonder if the mtn biking president who signed this into law realized it closed a trail currently open to bikes. --- In , CraigSMcKinnon@... wrote: Does this mean that all the wilderness crew will now focus there efforts to the next wilderness area, at mt bikers expense? In the name of wilderness. -- 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.) Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are fond of! http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande |
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