Mountain Biker Admits that Mountain Bikers Are Not Environmentalists!

Mike Vandeman

Exactly what I have been saying for about 15 years. Mountain bikers
are VERY slow to admit the truth.

Mike


To: cree_anthony <anthony@lifetime.oregonstate.edu>
From: "Ronald Long" <ronald.long@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 08:51:52 -0700
Subject: Re: House approves Wild Sky wilderness in Washington state

If there's one thing I've learned since joining the BBTC, it's how
unbelievably naive I used to be - thinking that of course mountain
bikers would be environmentalists.
I may be the only one on this list, but I'm delighted that the Wild
Sky wilderness area was created. I agree that it's unfortunate and
wrong that bikes are excluded from places that horses are allowed, and
would love to help change that.
But the world is much bigger than the one we see with our "I wanna
ride there" blinders on, and, in that larger world, there is a
desperate need to preserve places that are relatively untouched by us
wonderful humans. If you can't relate to the spiritual value of those
places, perhaps you can think of them as repositories of fascinating
DNA, that the drug companies will get around to exploiting to create
new drugs.

ronald

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM, cree_anthony
<anthony@lifetime.oregonstate.edu> wrote:
> Of course, now they'll move on to the next 'last unprotected stand of
> whatever'. With this having portions that have been previously logged
> and roads and bridges in it, this proposal didn't even meet the
> requirements of the Wilderness act, that's why Pombo had killed it a
> couple years ago.
>
> I wonder if the mtn biking president who signed this into law realized
> it closed a trail currently open to bikes.
>
> --- In bbtcmembers@yahoogroups.com, CraigSMcKinnon@... wrote:
> >
> > Does this mean that all the wilderness crew will now focus there
> efforts to
> > the next wilderness area, at mt bikers expense? In the name of
> wilderness.
--
I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to
humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)

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