Bill introduced to expand wilderness areas

Casper Star Tribune ^ | April 21, 2007 | NOELLE STRAUB

[ApplegateRanch]

Hiking, horseback riding, hunting, fishing, grazing, etc. are generally allowed, but with more restrictions and with no use of mechanical vehicles permitted.

You might also add that firefighting can only be carried out using hand tools, after firefighter hike in on foot; and that airborne search & rescue or medivac flights are generally not allowed.

[CyberAnt]

Except .. when Daschle found out that NOT “clear cutting” the trees was the reason for the horrible fires in CA - he immediately wrote legislation to ADD HIS STATE TO THE CLEAR CUTTING OKAY LIST.

For the LIBERALS - IT’S NOT OKAY FOR YOU but it’s OKAY FOR THEM.

[wku man]

The only good thing about (when it finally happens) the brown matter hitting the electrical rotating air displacement device is that scumbags like King, and her ilk in Sun Valley, will flee Idaho for the "safety" of kalifornia.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[babygene]

“The Catskills State Park is significantly smaller, but there is one.”

There is a big difference between a State Park and a wilderness area. Wilderness areas, at least here in Idaho, have no roads and are off limits to off road vehicles.

Basically, you can’t go there...

[SierraWasp]

Hay! wku man!! It's never over till the gravitationally challenged member of the feminine gender begins to vocalize!!!

Hay Mugs99! Who are "the people?"

What happened to "the people's" representatives in this republic?

If it all belongs to the non-descript "people," won't they fight over it?

Why don't we fight for it?

What would we do with it if we won?

Didn't there used to be an element of freedom vested in individuals in this previously great nation?

Whatever happened to that?

Who has the answers to all these questions?

Put the answers up right here on this thread, please...

[tubebender]

You were saying???

[dljordan]

” Don’t know how we can feed ourselves, much less the rest of the world if this is allowed to happen. “

I don’t think there’s supposed to be too many of us left. I believe their population plans call for 500 million worldwide. Have you seen the Georgia Guidestones?

[traviskicks]

“Maybe it’s time to return the public lands to the people.”

Agreed, unfortunately, there does not seem to be much understanding that ‘public’ does not equate with possession or control by ‘the people’.

[pointsal]

Great news...... Lawyers Full Employment Act of 2007

[Sherman Logan]

Basically, you can’t go there...

You can go. You just have to walk or ride a horse.

[mugs99]

Hay Mugs99! Who are "the people?"
The serfs...you and I.

What happened to "the people's" representatives in this republic?
Donald Sutherland made a movie about it..."Invasion of the Body Snatchers".

If it all belongs to the non-descript "people," won't they fight over it?
Why don't we fight for it?
Prosperity...People fight for their rights during hard times.

What would we do with it if we won?
Homestead and recreation.

Didn't there used to be an element of freedom vested in individuals in this previously great nation?
Individualism is a dirty word these days.

Whatever happened to that?
It ended when people decided to let government tell them how to live.

Who has the answers to all these questions?
We all know the answer...some choose to ignore it.

Put the answers up right here on this thread, please...
Restore the Constitution.
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[AuntB]

Here we go again.

Indeed!

[mugs99]

unfortunately, there does not seem to be much understanding that ‘public’ does not equate with possession or control by ‘the people’.

Public property has become the domain of the elite.
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[AuntB]

Whatever happened to that? It ended when people decided to let government tell them how to live. Whatever happened to that? It ended when people decided to let government tell them how to live.

100% correct!

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

I talked to one of the rabid Earth First wimmen some years back and she was for the pre-man state of nature. She couldn’t explain why, it just sounded good.

Michael Frazier

[mugs99]

She couldn’t explain why, it just sounded good.
Educated by Walt Disney cartoons. The real world isn't a concept these kooks understand.
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[GladesGuru]

“One of the odder anomalies of wilderness designation is that horseback riding is allowed but mountain biking is usually not, despite the fact that by any definition horses have much greater impact on the environment than bicycles.”

Horse owners tend to be wealthier and have the home phone numbers of more senators than do bike riders.

[GladesGuru]

In the Florida Panhandle, much of the gooberment lands are now spotted with areas used for growing grass. That’s grass for urban socialist cattle, not bovines.

[SierraWasp]

Good Answers!!!

[Balding_Eagle]

I drove around the outside of The Great Sand Dunes National Park in southern Colorado about 10 years ago. On the northern side, along muddy rut filled trails were a large number of very nice, large homesteads and ranches. Very rustic.

We commented on how nice it would be to live there.

Then, I pointed out that each of those land owners has a large bulls eye painted on his back, and his property. I went on to say that some evil bureaucrat or evil politician probably was already loading his assault weapons to take these guys property by whatever means was needed.

This scene of the innately evil politician and bureaucrat assulting private property owners is repeated over and over many times each year.