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10/20/2009 9:55 pm - Wilderness Designations And National Parks Don't Cross Paths Often Enough : Thanks, Marshall Dillon. I appreciate your kind words. You're right: you can't have any kind of wheeled contrivance in a federal Wilderness, including a hunter's game cart, a dolly to portage a kayak or canoe (is portage a verb?), or even, in some Wildernesses, a wheelbarrow! The latter prohibition makes ...
10/20/2009 8:34 pm - Wilderness Designations And National Parks Don't Cross Paths Often Enough : y p w wrote:[quote]In many ways I think the way "wilderness" has been designated under the 1964 Wilderness Act has been haphazard with all sorts of exceptions thrown in. I've seen pictures of Lake Aloha in Desolation Wilderness in the Lake Tahoe Basin. It's clearly within a wilderness boundary by ...
10/20/2009 8:21 pm - Curing Society's Disconnect With Nature Could Be As Easy As A Walk In the Woods : Gee, am I the first person to comment on this topic? I have to agree with this comment that the article quotes: " ' "What I see in America today is an almost religious zeal for the technological approach to every facet of life," says Daniel Yankelovich, the veteran public ...
10/16/2009 7:58 pm - Is It "Elitist" To Try to Visit All 58 National Parks? : Years ago I resolved to visit all 50 states and had visited about 45 of them by the time I graduated from college. I got to Alaska in 1995 and thereby completed the quest. I'm glad I did it. I learned a lot about the country socially (especially during thousands ...
10/16/2009 10:56 am - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees : Graham G. and Jeffrey, thank you for making those points. Jeffrey, you mentioned that "the average hiker volunteer is in their sixties." I have to agree about the age-related issue. I'm a veteran in our local park district's volunteer organization, which consists of a trail safety patrol and docents. Judging ...
10/16/2009 10:33 am - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees : Hi, Kurt, I know I sometimes engage in strong rhetoric. But yes, alas, these very threads, and others on, e.g., New West, show that there exists a cadre of wildland worshipers (nothing wrong with that in principle) who are fervently convinced that their preferred travel method is the one true ...
10/15/2009 9:55 pm - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees : I've stated before in these threads that much modern "environmentalism" has less to do with conservation than with the quasireligious quest for a spiritual experience in the woods—a quest with strong exclusionary overtones and accompanied by no little self-righteousness. At its worst this strain of "environmentalism" brings to mind South ...
10/15/2009 10:23 am - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees : Hi, Kurt, To answer your question, the characterization of old-line conservationism is my own editorial comment and doesn't appear in the academic study. These threads are occasions for rhetorical asides and I am wont to indulge in them! I think my comment is, however, a fair inference from things that ...
10/14/2009 9:54 pm - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees : OK, the captcha for this one is "Devoted numskull"! These are great. The antibike folks may win various battles in the war of delay and attrition, but be poised to lose the war. A recent academic study reports that there is already a very narrow base of support for old-line ...
10/14/2009 9:10 pm - Forest Service Drawing Line On Mountain Bikers in Potential Wilderness, National Park Service Agrees : [Deleted duplicate.]

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