So, I was talking to this "greenie" gal.....

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These organizations and others (i.e. PETA in particular), are typically very well organized on college campuses. Each Fall they will post flyers or have booths in the student unions or quads. They have a new batch of recruits every year. These recruits are essentially looking for something to identify with; a cause or something.

One of the problems the sledding industry has wrt these issues is the argument that "there are worse offenders than sleds so why not go after them." That is a losing argument everytime.

Not sure what aspect of advocating would appeal to those young recruits. Maybe we can get them jazzed up about the eroding of our rights.

I had an interesting experience a few years ago at a meeting about the development of a new forest use plan.
I started a conversation with someone that was wearing a pro wilderness t-shirt. Come to find out a whole bunch of them had been brought to the meeting by bus. They had responded to an ad in the paper for activists to appear at the meeting. Their pay was a pizza dinner once the meeting was over. The guy knew absolutely nothing about the issues other than he was supposed to express his desire for more wilderness.
He said he didn't give a rats a$$ about the issues, he just thought it would be fun and he wanted the pizza.