... it's sooooo important for us to band together on these issues, sign these petitions and support organizations and leaders that oppose these sort of things. We can't have the attitude of "that sucks for those guys" . As we have seen that this agenda of making more and more wilderness is a systemic thing. It is and will be coming to your back yard and will affect you, your kids and grandkids. These groups that are pushing these agendas are misguided but very organized with lots of money. If we don't start coming together more in an organized fashion we will lose our riding areas until they are completely gone----at least the real good ones will be.
what I've seen where I live is that these environmental groups sue the Forrest service....an injunction is placed on the literally hundreds of thousands of acres of land whereby no snomobiling is allowed....the local community then has a fit and says no way....the Forrest service then will close 30,000 acres down of the 300,000 to 500,000 acres proposed....we think oh that wasn't so bad we only lost a little bit, we will get our riding area back next year....then the greenies file another lawsuit and the cycle of madness repeats....it's NEVER enough!