Where are the big 4 manufacturers in this fight???
I was looking through our State Associations listing of businesses that support the SDSA and was surprised to see that some of the businesses that benefit the most in our state from snowmobiling are not on that list, so your statement was similar to my question about that. I would think that this issue would raise all kinds of eyebrows and the support this sport should be seeing is just not there by those who benefit the most from the sport, every lodge, motel, dealer, gas station, restaurant, parts house, etc... who make their living off of "us" should be putting "us" to shame when it comes to getting support lined up to fight this. If snowmobiling gets regulated to On Trail use only, there will be a lot of For Sale signs and people looking through the Help Wanted ads, in my opinion..... We could all group together and join clubs/groups/coalitions etc... but (again, my opinion) our voice would be heard much louder with more heavy hitters involved with deeper pockets and lawyers on retainer to protect their business interest. The economic impact of such a ruling should be enough to pack any court house with upset business owners. I could be all wet and Polaris, Cat, Super 8, etc... are all over this and have people at the ready to line up and make some noise.
The ski'ers that I see, are the 4th floor office types with the big cabins and drive the Escalades to the parking lot, they might spend a few hours a year actually on the snow and the rest looking out their window at all the sleds/trailers driving by and just assume we are out there melting all of their snow or something.?? They've got nothing better to do than try to ruin someone's elses idea of fun and take away what rightfully belongs to all of us, did that just describe a Democrat??? The same type of people that have parts of Yellowstone gated off so they can have their "privacy" with private clubs, resorts, million dollar homes, etc.. all of the property around those structures is logged and all cleaned up to protect them from the fires, but outside of that property they push to keep it "all natural" and don't want to see man intervening in natures way by logging the forest. They can clear all the land they want for their long private heated asphalt driveways and bring in all kinds of equipment to develop in the forest, but our snowmobiles are in some way harmful...???
