I like going out in the forest, and in the mountains,,jeeping, fishing, etc. Here’s a fun game for next time you go out there. Stop and think how much we wouldn’t have if the people in the 1930s, ‘40s, and 50s thought like this bunch today.
Think there would be a Golden Gate Bridge? Not on your life. Think there would be a road and a train you could take up Pikes Peak? Think all those Ski Areas would be there? Carlsbad Caverns with a road and paved walking tril with handrails?
Environmentalists are convinced those places only belong to those who have the money, time, and health to backpack out there for 6 weeks at a time. If you are 70 or 80, worked all your life, and want to drive out to the woods, take a few photos, and see some sights, they only have the big finger for you. Damned extremists,,and outrageously selfish.
The premise of the Wilderness Act is that “wilderness”, defined in the original act as, “an area of the earth and its community of life that is untrammeled by the presence of man” existed in the Continental USA.
No such areas existed at the time of the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964.
The indigenous peoples of what is now the USA has imposed fire management across the country. As should be clear to the meanest of intellects, land subjected to thousands of years of fire management has been “trammeled by the presence of man”
The Endangered Species Act was therefore null and void ab initio. It attempted to protect that which did not exist, and that had not existed for thousands of years.
The nasty commies who created and passed the original Endangered Species Act passed a law which defines “wilderness” as something that had disappeared from the USA many thousands of years ago.