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Mike Vandeman
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I wonder what he thought he would accomplish, by sending
hate mail?
Mike
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You sir, and your organization are at the very least
overeducated ignoramuses. If you actually hiked (or God
forbid biked) in the wilds you would see the world you are
trying to protect much different light. Nature my dear boy
is much more durable than you think! To even suggest that
mountain bikers are destroying the wilds is quite ridiculos.
Maybe at best (or worst) mountain biikes cause less than 1%
of true destructive damage(hikers cause more by shear
numbers) wildlife probably causes comparable damage, and if
you take consider all the uses of our natural resources
(recrerational, commerecial, etc.) mountain biking even at
it most destrucive level is hardly worth noting. Erosion is
just the movement of soil to one place to another, whether
it is manmade or natural it is not forever, the topsoil does
not dissapear it just gets moved, and may very well may move
back. Anyhow I could go on and we could argue without end,
one common ground is that we both love the wild and want to
see it remain heatlthy, but we all must compromise and at
time those compromises whether wrong or right must be
accepted. I am afraid for you that mountain bikes are here
to stay, and to suggest that we must ban them is silly and
will only create more of a rift between us all. There are
much larger and more dire fights to fight, this is not one
of them. matt
p.s. you should get out more.
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to humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the
previous 8 years fighting auto dependence and road
construction.)
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande
hate mail?
Mike
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are you crazy? Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:47:10 -0700 Mime-
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You sir, and your organization are at the very least
overeducated ignoramuses. If you actually hiked (or God
forbid biked) in the wilds you would see the world you are
trying to protect much different light. Nature my dear boy
is much more durable than you think! To even suggest that
mountain bikers are destroying the wilds is quite ridiculos.
Maybe at best (or worst) mountain biikes cause less than 1%
of true destructive damage(hikers cause more by shear
numbers) wildlife probably causes comparable damage, and if
you take consider all the uses of our natural resources
(recrerational, commerecial, etc.) mountain biking even at
it most destrucive level is hardly worth noting. Erosion is
just the movement of soil to one place to another, whether
it is manmade or natural it is not forever, the topsoil does
not dissapear it just gets moved, and may very well may move
back. Anyhow I could go on and we could argue without end,
one common ground is that we both love the wild and want to
see it remain heatlthy, but we all must compromise and at
time those compromises whether wrong or right must be
accepted. I am afraid for you that mountain bikes are here
to stay, and to suggest that we must ban them is silly and
will only create more of a rift between us all. There are
much larger and more dire fights to fight, this is not one
of them. matt
p.s. you should get out more.
Create a Job Alert on MSN Careers and enter for a chance to
win $1000!
===
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.)
http://home.pacbell.net/mjvande