[pct-l] Fw: Judge suspends horse packing in national parks (Sequoia-Kings)
Edward Anderson
mendoridered at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 6 16:02:45 CDT 2012
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From: Anne Williams <touchstone at isomedia.com>
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Subject: Re: [pct-l] Judge suspends horse packing in national parks (Sequoia-Kings)
Interesting, I wonder what the actual violation of
the Wilderness Act it. Everybody violtaes the wilderness act by crapping in the
widerness, and just becaue some people ae bad packes, does not mean that the
whole industry should be through out. This also eliminates the strings of
mules and horses going into the High Sierra camps tht the park
runs.
I wonder what what their rulling would be on
SERVICE ANIMALS. I see Horses as service animals. Dogs on the other
hand , you can not ride and they do not carry your gear, let
alone crapping evrywhere, and chasing the wildlife and barking and biting ( dogs
kill something like 70 people a year, and bears kill 2)
for some reason , I can send files that are larger
than I can receive. And I can download a file that I can not recieve by
email. My lawyer tells me that they subscribe to service where they can
send emails with attached files, and their lients can go to the service to
download a file which they could not recieve through email.
I find it really alarming that the Wilderness act
does not allow traditional activities in the park. These are parks,
not wilderness areas, but they both have the same operable model - their model
does not include people as part of the ecosystem. the wildernesss is
supposed to be kept as if there were no people or no impacts from people.
This is not the real world , but a view of utopia. I think that anytime
laws are put in place for unrelaistic ends, and to keep utopia, they will
untimately fail. This s a prime example.
I would bet that the very arguments that have been
set forth in this case, could be used to prevent people from using the park as
well. And around here we have the Great Bear Recovery program.
They want to "recover" the grizzly bears although sitings of grizzlies are as
common as bigfoot sigtings. and what few sightings there are are residents
of canada coming a few miles across the border. Yet although there is not
a grizzly for haundreds of square miles, there are trails close by that are now
abandoned becasue the Grizzley Bear folk sdemanded that roads and trails be
abandoned to make an area for the nonexistent bears where they would not be
disturbed. It is the same thing- what have to protect this over here so we
have to eliminate horses and people. they want to make the people areas
unconnected ( contained), and small - like a museun with lots of
"keep on the trail" signs and keep the rest "natural" for the
wildlife. a lot o fthe connector trails arond Mrtt Baker have been
abandoned, and it is evendifficult to gt to them, and the small people areas are
so over used and permitted that it is alarming. The people do not have
poor wilderness skills, the parks have poor management
skills.
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