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I do agree with you, but I thought about that too, and IMO the only thing is it needs to come off as sledders being proactive about this and pointing out that they thought they were in the right area (not in Caribou habitat), and were, and simply stating that they never meant to ride in restricted areas, and had it actually been a restricted area with a designated boundary and signs, they wouldn't have been there, since 99% of sledders respect the boundary and the caribou. Its going to be hard to drum up support if we slam the Ministry of Env., and come off self righteous and cocky. Besides, if we make the Ministry look foolish, who do you think they are going to target? They will be looking to make an example of sledders the moment we step out of bounds next time, and you can believe that they will know the boundaries, doubtful they will make the same mistake twice, then likely we will be the ones in the paper looking foolish. We will probably get the front page exposure "Snowmobilers chasing Caribou around the mountain" instead of "Ministry reps make mistake" on page 13 between the personals.I think this should get front page on the local newspapers.
Guess why you got a ticket?We ask who else is in the chopper besides the pilot they tell us the Minster of Environment is the chopper.
Thanks Wired1 for the advise before you resigned. I never thought about what I would wear!
You make good points barefooter. We all need to get organized and join clubs and organizations to help make a stronger voice if we want to keep back country open for snowmobiles. The BCSF have been contacted about this as well.
For those who want to donate. I'm not real comfortable taking money from people. I do appreciate the support. In last years group that were fined those guys sent in dispute notices like we did and have not receive hearing dates almost a year later. I think I will wait and see when the hearing dates are and then go from there. One friend that was fined is from Alberta and my other is from Kamloops. So not sure if the hearings will be on the same day or what. Once we know the hearing dates I will talk to my friends and decide if we should post a pay pal etc.
Also I want to let people know that I have posted this on this site in other topics and also other sites as well here is the links for people that want to read all the comments. Sorry for this I just wanted to let as many people know about this as I could. (I think it worked)
http://www.sledrevelstoke.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=649
http://www.snowandmud.com/forum/f4/we-got-nailed-caribou-basin-5576.html
http://snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73180
http://snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73074
Thank you for the support everyone!!!!!