Club Memberships Saving Our Riding Areas

[HANDSOME]

Carriboo closures happening in the pine pass . We need more members to help keep our riding areas. I think the dealerships should have memberships thrown in as part of any snowmobile or atv purchase to get the numbers up.Buy a membership and urge your friends to do the same before the tree huggers wreck it for us all.

 

[CatWoman]

You are correct that we need everyone to speak up on these land use issues. Our local club has tried the giving of a free one year membership to those who purchase sleds (given the certificates to local dealers), and even that didn't help. I don't know what the answer is. How do you get people to step up? Most times they don't, until they find it hitting in their backyard, and by that time, it's usually too late for that area as they haven't kept current on the topic.

It is a good thing to keep trying to get peeps to join. One way we try is to start with folks we ride with, friends, and family.....and encourage them to do the same.

We're back in Malloy's court again this year. Last year the enviro's lost a case to have our riding shut down March 15, but it was close. Malloy was kind enough to let them know why they didn't win their case, and they re-filed this year. December 1 to March 15......as it stands now, that is our legal riding time, and we actually have the Forest Service and Fish, Wildlife & Parks on our side. So not only do we have huge closure areas, but now we have dates we can ride, which they are trying to shorten even more than what they are.

We NEED everyone that rides to get involved, and to fire off an email or make a quick call. That's what SAWS is about, to help keep you informed on ALL areas. If we ALL spoke up outside of our backyard, we'd stand a whole lot better chance of saving the riding areas we do have for us, and future generations. At the very least join your local club. Even better, join local and state clubs......and SAWS (free).

 

[Soccerd6]

We need more members to help keep our riding areas. I think the dealerships should have memberships thrown in as part of any snowmobile or atv purchase to get the numbers up.

How would this help to keep the riding areas open? Providing a free membership does not guarantee the individual will be active in fighting land closures.... I'm assuming the dealerships would be paying the membership fee, which would increase the club's bank account, but unless the club in turn use that to somehow "fight" potential closures, I'm missing the correllation....

 

[The Fourth Wolf]

How would this help to keep the riding areas open? Providing a free membership does not guarantee the individual will be active in fighting land closures.... I'm assuming the dealerships would be paying the membership fee, which would increase the club's bank account, but unless the club in turn use that to somehow "fight" potential closures, I'm missing the correllation....

Whenever an org appeals to government the first question the politicians/bureaucrats ask is "How many people do you represent?"

Membership matters.

What bothers me most is the younger riders who cheerfully spend several grand on aftermarket parts, clothes and accessories but get indignant about 25 or 30 bucks for a year's membership in their local or state club. The irony is the younger riders have the most to gain from joining. Namely the preservation of the sport they love.

 

[HANDSOME]

How would this help to keep the riding areas open? Providing a free membership does not guarantee the individual will be active in fighting land closures.... I'm assuming the dealerships would be paying the membership fee, which would increase the club's bank account, but unless the club in turn use that to somehow "fight" potential closures, I'm missing the correllation....

Add the $80 to the charge of the sled and nobody knows the difference.Strength is in #s and if buying a membership is the least we can do to keep our sport then why question it ? I have friends that spend thousands in mods and dont want to pay $80 in hopes of keeping our area open. If you buy a club membership at least you can say you tried.... if you dont and the area closes too bad you and the rest of us.

 

[somefear]

Carriboo closures happening in the pine pass . We need more members to help keep our riding areas. I think the dealerships should have memberships thrown in as part of any snowmobile or atv purchase to get the numbers up.Buy a membership and urge your friends to do the same before the tree huggers wreck it for us all.

These closures in B.C. suck!! And it's not even about the Caribou!! Unfortunately we are losing more and more areas every year and you bet there is a direct correlation between membership numbers and closures. The powers to be look at our numbers in a particular area, and since there aren't enough to lobby/fight then the areas are just taken away without so much as a thought.

We are left with approx. 10% of our former areas in the McGregor range, the few people that worked hard and lobbied for our area were given back an area that was formerly closed (Sande) and allowed to keep the Burn. All the rest is gone, gone, gone. One thing that really makes us all look bad is the few sledders that knowingly go into these closed areas thinking that no one will find out. WRONG!! This will only ruin it for the sledders that are obeying the closures. They will end up CLOSING all the areas. People need to realize that once these areas are gone it's too late....and going into closed areas is just more ammunition that the powers to be need to close even more areas.

Join your club, and if at all possible help out and make your voice heard when it comes time to negotiate with the government on your sledding areas. We've lost too much already and the $80/year on a membership is a small price to pay for the areas that we all love to ride!!

 

[HANDSOME]

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