Posted on 03/22/2010 10:04:52 PM PDT by MamaDearest
So do the Brits, and that is why in the cities, so many Brits wear hoods and hats. Guess I better start looking on Ebay for some hats....
In the last twenty years the Forest Circus has become nothing more than the Green Police. Their main concern is to enforce an Eco Wacko mindset on hikers, hunters, fishermen and campers. And on commercial concerns too. Mainly by shutting them down or making it difficult for them.
Well maybe we should just dress like forest rangers or bears. May as well have fun with them if they want to film us. It really is turning me off to camping. My idea of camping is in my 32 ft travel trailer with ac & a bed lol.
That's not camping. Camping is a wool blanket a knife and a block of magnesium. ;^)
Yes, cell phones are useful. If you have a piece of steel wool you can ignite it with the battery from the phone and get your fire started. ;^)
I believe that in a grander scheme of things, they wish to limit our travel and accessibility to open land. People living in metro/suburban areas are easier to control. The fed’s can’t have gun carrying “rugged individualists” out there, and being unaccounted for.
Drug cultivation, “illegal” logging, etc. is just a ploy just as “endangered” species are used simply to cut off public access to land.
Another way they’ll continue to limit, if not end, sportsmen activities is to make it so expensive (license, tags, etc.)through regulation that people won’t be able to afford it.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to; the US Forest Service is the Green Gestapo. We must dismantle all fed. agencies except our military.
That is what lighters are for TE. I do know how to gather wood & make a fire. I also know you can start a fire with eye glasses.
I prefer Fritos to magnesium myself. :-D
Oh, yes, they have been closing more and more roads and trails for at least twenty years. I don’t think there is any illegal logging either. If they wanted to monitor for that they would put the cameras on the roads not in the forest. But most forests would be hard to get in and out of with a logging truck without passing a ranger station. They wouldn’t even have to patrol which they do on a near daily basis.
And cellphones can be used as a weapon. If I bear’s chasing you, throw the cellphone at it. This should slow them down.....a little. Just enough to enrage ‘em anyway.
Gotta admit it would work very well. But you would need several cases of Fritos to light as many fires as a small magnesium block and the chipmunks won't eat it.
Just dial “1-900-talk to a sexy bear” before you throw it.
Not a forest ranger. And I don’t mind reading government materials to learn what an agency says about itself. That’s useful, whether I agree with the content of the materials or not.
Sorry if I am irritating you. I think I have said all I can think of on this. Thanks for your time.
LOL!!
Everyone should be a little paranoid these days.
Appreciated the discussion. Hope you’ll seriously consider a different view of the Forest Service.
Good night,
TJI
I never camp without my buck knife & a flare gun. I think the flare gun would work better then the cell phone would....But I’ve got some ring tones that might amuse the bear. I am beginning to think I would rather be around the bears then the forest rangers.
You will be invisible until the moon comes out.
lmao!!
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