Tellico Closed Forever!

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I appreciate that you've put in a lot more time and effort as a Forest Service volunteer than I have. I participated in about 10 URE work days, picking up trash, building log bridges, and adding fenceposts. I always felt like we were just breaking even. What I mean is, we were out there picking up trash left by other trail users, putting up fences to keep those other folks on the trail and adding logs to reduce erosion caused by trail users. I'm not sure we were improving things. I always saw the volunteer work as a way to hopefully keep the trails open but not a guarantee.

In other words, in return for our help, the trails stayed open as long as they did. I'm sure without volunteers most, if not all, of the 4x4 trails would have closed years ago leaving only the gravel roads.

JC said:
2. The Forest Service, an arm of my government, has acted badly in taking from us, the 4wd community, time and money to help them manage their responsibilities and then closed the park leaving us nothing in return for our help. Just another form of taxation without representation. I feel the 4wd community has been used badly by the FS and has acted in an unethical and immoral manner in dealing us.
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I think we are from the same school BoltOnJohn, as our lessons are alike.
 
saf-t scissors said:
Hunting and wheeling are not the same thing. The gov't is perfectly capable of and willing to shut down private wheeling locations, commercial businesses or not. Hell, it's probably arguable that a commercial business has fewer rights than an individual in this regard because of how the Clean Water Act is structured.
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Hunting and wheeling are definately the same in the respect I was meaning.
Here it is: Both are viable industries
Professional ranches Guided hunts ect. are thriving due to smart buisnesmen. Fourwheeling could use a few who do more than fabricate and dream up parts nobody will have a place to use.
Each will both require speacial permits and grants to use designated areas (hint one already does)
Each will be of a pay to play plan like it or not eventually. Registration, liscense ect. (THEY ALREADY HAVE THEIR EYES ON ATVS)
Both when operated properly have longterm return potential. Places to do both on a "throphy scale" aren't poping up everywhere.
Both have specific common sense rules of engagement and ethics. And when these rules of engagement are followed; for the most part, those who disagree leave us the hell alone.
 
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