This is an important issue for you to draw attention to. Pointing out the problem is one thing, pointing out who it is that's threatening our public lands will get you censored.
I would answer that with the pertinent links, but they've already been censored once. I suggest googling it if you want to know how our public lands are constantly under attack and who's been threatening them, and who it is that defends them!
I'll re-allow post #2 quoted above as it might be considered pertinent.... (If anyone wishes to read it)
Report: Public lands should stay in public hands - National Wildlife Federation
Learned that as a Boy Scout. When we were leaving bivouac we had to stretch out in a line arms distance apart and walk across the entire area, instructions were if it didn't grow, pick it up and it didn't matter if it was not our trash. My father whipped us good if we ever threw a piece of trash on the ground. I too (presently) work for the Sierra Club, not as an employee but volunteer. The only access I've seen this group fighting against is commercial exploitation. The Sierra Club encourages individual access, even gives people a John Muir era back pack when you join and maps of trails. The SC would never support GOP efforts to sell off, or open up to commercial exploitation, our public lands.
Never would I even put them in the same grouping with the GOP. When I work for the Sierra Club, their attitude was close off all access to motorized vehicles. But this was in the Southeast so it may be different elsewhere.
Ah, gotcha. And I can't speak to that at all. My interest has been from the Rockies west. I also think now that you've added more to the conversation that we're speaking of a slightly different thing. If there's a region where SC is fighting vehicle traffic, its most likely erosion concerns that flush more silt down the streams to rivers which shortens the life of 100 year lakes. I had a lake house on one such lake that lost hundreds of its shallow end acres to silt prematurely. No more water front for my little cabana, lol. And I'm thinking more of one parties interest in resource exploitation which does magnitudes more damage to the environment and public rights to access. But still, thanks for bringing it up as the subject (the safety of public lands access) deserves attention and debate regularly.
