So now parents that allow their children to snowmobile is considered "poor parenting" because they must just be out there to "terrorize wildlife on two-stroke shenanigans".
Gee, and to think that I thought snowmobiling with childeren was all about teaching children respect for wildlife and the environment, having good family time together, keeping kids off drugs and out of gangs, and having a little fun to boot.
Thumbs up to the GOP for discussing access concerns when discussing wilderness. You sure wouldn't be having this conversation in a more liberal crowd.
"to let them terrorize wildlife on two-stroke shenanigans is absurd and, frankly, poor parenting."
http://www.examiner.com/x-535-North...ing-Wilderness-The-GOP-and-its-twostroke-toys
Preserving Wilderness: The GOP and its two-stroke toys
POSTED August 28, 4:14 PM
Jesse Nelson - Northwest Environment Examiner
Flipping through the channels while eating breakfast yesterday, I came across the Republican Party Platform meeting on C-SPAN (RealPlayer video). The topic was wilderness area access. Intriguing, yet I still had to choke down my granola after hearing the ignorance of one particular gem.
Kendal Unruh, a delegate from Castle Rock, Colorado and a real Ann Coulter believer, was requesting that the RNC include an amendment to the RNC platform section on Continuing our Stewardship over the Environment. The original text for the platform stated, “the public should have motorized and pedestrian access to” wilderness and public areas. Ms. Unruh’s amendment wanted to adjust the language to state, “the public should have access by all means to…”
Ms. Unruh in her own words:
Reciting the GOP anti-Clinton mantra, Jim Merrill, a delegate from New Hampshire, supported this amendment because of the economic value that snowmobiling on public lands brings to rural communities.
Simpleminded entitlement at its finest. Aside from the affront to my hometown (go figure, she appeals to the self-righteous on the basis that public lands should be made available to any means possible, from dirt bike to hiker to jet boat. She seems to miss is the idea that they are open to the public, but not all its toys.
She also misses the point of preservation and keeping our loud, stinky, and disruptive toys out of pristine areas. Luckily, Herb Schoenbohm from the Virgin Islands came to save the day. I’d recount his story, but it was really long. The gist of it was on his experiences in the Quetico Provincial Park and Superior Forest, a wilderness area that is only accessible by canoe, and the beauty of being that immersed in nature.
It was unfortunate to hear that Conrad Burns (MT) supported the amendment, but at least he put a pragmatic spin on this woman’s personal agenda. He clued the whole committee into the fact that the Wilderness Act of 1964 prohibited any sort of motorized vehicle on preserved lands. Finally, some logic!
In this age, many people, especially children, suffer from acute nature deficit disorder. The idea that we are entitled to take our video game generation to the wilderness to let them terrorize wildlife on two-stroke shenanigans is absurd and, frankly, poor parenting.
Gee, and to think that I thought snowmobiling with childeren was all about teaching children respect for wildlife and the environment, having good family time together, keeping kids off drugs and out of gangs, and having a little fun to boot.
Thumbs up to the GOP for discussing access concerns when discussing wilderness. You sure wouldn't be having this conversation in a more liberal crowd.
"to let them terrorize wildlife on two-stroke shenanigans is absurd and, frankly, poor parenting."
http://www.examiner.com/x-535-North...ing-Wilderness-The-GOP-and-its-twostroke-toys
Preserving Wilderness: The GOP and its two-stroke toys
POSTED August 28, 4:14 PM
Jesse Nelson - Northwest Environment Examiner
Flipping through the channels while eating breakfast yesterday, I came across the Republican Party Platform meeting on C-SPAN (RealPlayer video). The topic was wilderness area access. Intriguing, yet I still had to choke down my granola after hearing the ignorance of one particular gem.
Kendal Unruh, a delegate from Castle Rock, Colorado and a real Ann Coulter believer, was requesting that the RNC include an amendment to the RNC platform section on Continuing our Stewardship over the Environment. The original text for the platform stated, “the public should have motorized and pedestrian access to” wilderness and public areas. Ms. Unruh’s amendment wanted to adjust the language to state, “the public should have access by all means to…”
Ms. Unruh in her own words:
“We’ve all seen the headline news of the radical environmentalists who are attempting to shut off public lands to motorized access to – atv access to – any type of access except for potentially hiking.”
“There is a very large debate in the state of Colorado to restrict access to wilderness and public areas that we own and we lay claim to the wonderful area of Boulder who has an extremely active climbing group that is pushing this issue and they are attempting to change the face of our state to where other people who have legitimate reasons for recreational opportunities to access these public lands would be shut out in an attempt to, I guess their logic is, to keep it completely wild and free to where people only people that share their sport of choice, as hikers, would have access to it.”
“There is a very large debate in the state of Colorado to restrict access to wilderness and public areas that we own and we lay claim to the wonderful area of Boulder who has an extremely active climbing group that is pushing this issue and they are attempting to change the face of our state to where other people who have legitimate reasons for recreational opportunities to access these public lands would be shut out in an attempt to, I guess their logic is, to keep it completely wild and free to where people only people that share their sport of choice, as hikers, would have access to it.”
Reciting the GOP anti-Clinton mantra, Jim Merrill, a delegate from New Hampshire, supported this amendment because of the economic value that snowmobiling on public lands brings to rural communities.
Simpleminded entitlement at its finest. Aside from the affront to my hometown (go figure
, she appeals to the self-righteous on the basis that public lands should be made available to any means possible, from dirt bike to hiker to jet boat. She seems to miss is the idea that they are open to the public, but not all its toys. She also misses the point of preservation and keeping our loud, stinky, and disruptive toys out of pristine areas. Luckily, Herb Schoenbohm from the Virgin Islands came to save the day. I’d recount his story, but it was really long. The gist of it was on his experiences in the Quetico Provincial Park and Superior Forest, a wilderness area that is only accessible by canoe, and the beauty of being that immersed in nature.
It was unfortunate to hear that Conrad Burns (MT) supported the amendment, but at least he put a pragmatic spin on this woman’s personal agenda. He clued the whole committee into the fact that the Wilderness Act of 1964 prohibited any sort of motorized vehicle on preserved lands. Finally, some logic!
In this age, many people, especially children, suffer from acute nature deficit disorder. The idea that we are entitled to take our video game generation to the wilderness to let them terrorize wildlife on two-stroke shenanigans is absurd and, frankly, poor parenting.
