Wow...damn, I wasn't trying to get flamed for this...more or less trying to provoke thought. I appreciate those of you who handled this like adults. Just to clarify, I'm with you guys, your land, you do what you want. But I believe there still needs to be some sort of responsibility (as transman pointed out). If you wanna clear your land and make a mud pit, by all means, do it...if you wanna make trails go for it. However, I also believe the sight of someone rolling over saplings our trouncing through and destroying the landscape only furthers the irresponsible 'wheeler stigma. It's all about perception.
Personally, I've always believed people want to believe a perceived reality and not actual reality. I'm not sure exactly how land closure proceedings are handled, but I don't see how complete environmental destruction, your land or not, could benefit any of us. Shoot, as is, I've seen guys get citations for oil leaks on their own land, that gets into the wrong hands and I can only see what kinda hay day the greenies would have portraying offroaders as ignorant, irresponsible earth haters.
So personally, as much as we as an offroad community try to stress public land responsibility...I don't see why the same thing isn't encouraged on your own land.
To me, land preservation should be like character, an all the time thing...not a 'only when other people are looking' thing. Apparently I'm in the minority. If that make me a leftist, socialist, tree-hugging, Obama lover...I guess I'm guilty as charged, although it couldn't be further from the truth.
