Tellico CLOSED Until Further Notice

Here's the way the FS thinks:

If you don't take care of the trails and let people ride on them, they will erode and cause problems.

If you don't take care of the trails and close them, they will fix themselves.
 
Without reading much about the subject (forgive me), has anyone made any sort of projection as to how many people go to Tellico in a year's time and how much money they spend? If you demonstrate the effect, hopefully significant, closing the park has on the local economy, people in power might be inclined to reopen the park.
 
Padkisson621 said:
Without reading much about the subject (forgive me), has anyone made any sort of projection as to how many people go to Tellico in a year's time and how much money they spend? If you demonstrate the effect, hopefully significant, closing the park has on the local economy, people in power might be inclined to reopen the park.
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The Forest Service presented numbers on precisely this in their own EA. The economic impact of wheelers was definitely more than that of fishermen. You can read more here if you haven't already:
http://www.cs.unca.edu/nfsnc/nepa/tusquitee/tellico/tellico_ea.pdf

The public comment period is over, but you can still send the letters you would have sent to the FS to elected officials. And feel free to throw some $ to SFWDA as well.
 
to be fair...that is a wilderness area.
TNF is not...
 
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