From: a hiker/equestrian Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly allowed mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had last year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into the ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one year.
There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs. Awful.
=== 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.)
You have to love him don't you! He's like a cousin you only see on weddings and funerals and sits in the corner all alone wearing grannies special knitted sweater. Then secretly hides in the toilet with a Wal-Mart catalogue and some [censored] paper. Which one he looks at is unknown at this time. Kent "Mike Vandeman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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From: a hiker/equestrian Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly
allowed
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mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a
year
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ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had
last
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year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into
the
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ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one
year.
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There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
cliffs.
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Awful.
=== 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.)
From: a concerned citizen Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Homeowners Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Homes!
I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Anytown, USA, where I tried to walk in a Park behind my parents' house [punctuation corrected: Ed] Anytoewn foolishly allowed home-building and is paying a huge price for it. THe Park I walked last year has gone - it has almost three times the number of paved roads than it did last year, and all the trees have been cut down to build the houses with. The erosion from digging cellar holes in the ancient sandstone formations is devastating, a damege tat can never be recovered from. These formations are trillions of years old, and are now disfigured within a year. THere are homeowners and their children everywhere, whooping and' a'hollerin' like crazy, leaping off the sidewalks where the sandstone used to be.
From: a hiker/equestrian Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of ... single track trails than it had last year. There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.
There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs. Awful.
All right then. Let's give them prozac, a few sedatives, and some fried chicken. That way, they can be dead druggies, but at least they'll be quiet.
Good lord, I *want* my kids to be whooping and hollering. I don't know about the leaping off cliffs part... But that sounds like normal activity for kids and young people.
--Kamus
-- o | o__ >[] | A roadie who doesn't ride a mountain bike has no soul. ,>/'_ /\ | But then a mountain biker who doesn't ride a road bike has no legs... (_)\(_) \ \ | -Doug Taylor, alt.mountain-bike
From: a hiker/equestrian Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly allowed mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had last year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into the ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one year.
There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs. Awful.
That sounds cool! What part of the state? I'll have to get down there for a little huckin'!
On 28 Jun 2004 00:56:27 GMT, [email hidden] (Stephen Baker) wrote:
.Let's try this one. . .From: a concerned citizen .Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT .Subject: Re: Homeowners Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Homes! . .I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Anytown, USA, where I .tried to walk in a Park behind my parents' house [punctuation corrected: Ed] .Anytoewn foolishly allowed home- building and is paying a huge price for it. .THe Park I walked last year has gone - it has almost three times the number of .paved roads than it did last year, and all the trees have been cut down to .build the houses with. The erosion from digging cellar holes in the ancient .sandstone formations is devastating, a damege tat can never be recovered from. .These formations are trillions of years old, and are now disfigured within a .year. .THere are homeowners and their children everywhere, whooping and' a'hollerin' .like crazy, leaping off the sidewalks where the sandstone used to be. . .Make you feel better, Mikey?
Did you say something? === 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.)
There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
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Awful.
=== 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.)
what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
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There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
cliffs.
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Awful.
=== 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.)
From: a hiker/equestrian Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
I find this truly disgusting. I have just come back from Colorado Springs where I walk in a wild park behind my parents house. Colorado foolishly allowed mountain biking and is paying a huge price for it. The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of illegal single track trails than it had last year, and the erosion is devastating. Also the tire tracks have cut into the ancient sandstone formations, a damage that can never be repaired. These formations are 60 million years old, and are now scarred and worn in one year.
There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs. Awful.
=== 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.)
IT"S NOT A "WILD PARK" IT'S CALLED "OPEN SPACE PARK". Which is just a new way of calling a city park something PC.
What about all the houses being built practically IN THE PARK? IS THAT YOUR HOUSE? I HOPE IT BURNS DOWN THE NEXT TIME WE HAVE A GOOD FOREST FIRE! I guess it's OK for your parents to build a house next to the park, but not OK for me to ride my bike there? Gee thanks Mike!
Burn Baby Burn, but never clear out some of the brush that would keep your property from burning
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what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
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There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off
cliffs.
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Awful.
=== 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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Mike Vandeman said:
From: a hiker/equestrian Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 10:38:36 EDT Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Sacrifice Trees to Build Their Trails
The Park I walked a year ago has three times the amount of ... single track trails than it had last year. There are bikers everywhere, whooping and hollering and leaping off cliffs.
"Alan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
Please attend the Pittsburgh Enviromental Teaching Workshop this July 12th thru 16th.
To claim there are no enviromentalists in these areas is absurd.
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what a brilliant discussion this is. do you really think that environmentalists have destroyed california? take a trip to w. virginia or better yet pittsburgh or the shore of lake ontario where there are no environmentalists. have you ever been to mexico?
Please attend the Pittsburgh Enviromental Teaching Workshop this July 12th thru 16th.
To claim there are no enviromentalists in these areas is absurd.
If they don't make him the keynote speaker, and immediately adopt all of his views 100%, he will attack them and call them names.
Happy trails, Gary (net.yogi.bear) ------------------------------------------------ at the 51st percentile of ursine intelligence
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