[pct-l] you are in the minority of ohv

[Bill Burge]

Maybe I am in the minority.

But that doesn't give ANYONE the RIGHT to speak of the entire group as  
if the minority does not EXIST.

I've had more of my accessible land closed from HIKERS causing fires  
than from ME causing fires (I have caused none).  That does not give  
me the right to say that "hikers don't respect the use of fire in the  
backcountry". SOME hikers don't respect the use of fire.

The whole "TP In the backcountry" is a good parallel of this issue.

Bill Burge
Typoed on my iPhone!

On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:35 AM, canoeman at qnet.com wrote:

>
> I live in southern California and also have a ohv. You  know as well  
> as I do
> that we are the minority.
> go out any weekend in the desert and you can see this type of  
> destruction, EVERY
> WEEKEND.
> THE OHV ORGANIZATIONS like to portray themselves as people who care  
> for thew the
> land, but get most of them away from a press room and they hold the  
> hiker trail
> conservationist community in complete disdain.
> they consider conservationist as "gov'mint" left wing commie  
> liberals who are
> taking away their rights.
> On the same you tube page that showed the abuse video was another  
> video called
> illegal offroaders, in the very same area, a report done by kern tv  
> station and
> it shows in the report that just as they are talking on camera to  
> the land
> owner about the dirt bikers chaseing and killing their cattle and  
> dogs, on
> camera behind them come a huge group of dirt bike riders doing just  
> that, and
> at the same time a guy pulls up through the fence with his truck  
> full of dirt
> bikes and when confronted by the news caster and the land owner  
> stands their
> and tell them he has been coming here for years and he does what he  
> wants and
> if they dont like it its too bad.
> To deny that the majority of dirt bike riders are not now like that,  
> is just
> Nieve sponsable ohv user as am I but you know the ohv community is  
> mostly
> uncaring and usually drunk and abusive.
> so please dont try to convince us they are anything else.
> They are the COCKROACHES OF THE DESERT.
>
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