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Originally Posted by ravencr
"...In reference to your response above, I hear ya. I hope you can make the trip, because I think you'll be very impressed with how well everyone works together in Moab....."
Chris
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I'm already impressed with what's been done in Utah, Quebec and every other true large multi-use system out there. For years, national orv leaders have been holding up these areas instead of larger
money-maintained areas such as Michigan to beg dues money off of 'non-westerners' forced to tow the single-use "there is no god before the AMA" line.
Michigan single track leaders here have even tried to ridiculously point to the
multi-use Paiute as some kind of blueprint for everybody 'but them' (the nationally supported single trackers) to follow.....while they arrogantly snuck around behind the majority community's back lobbying for yet more "shut 'em all out" single track! (it's pretty damn bad when you can't even get forestry travel management workshop agendas opened up for simple Q and A periods for fear of 'working together' subjects being thrown in these people's faces).
Lobbying for true multi-use trails all around this country and not just where these cyclists will "allow it" has become just as important to me as finally shining a light on how
closed the political process has been on these issues for decades. Few young kids are becomming involved in the orv political process or being taught to throw aside these arrogant "me-only-trail" notions that they've been brainwashed into believing by these old single trackers....and for what reason?
Because every person (including me) that has come down the pipe with the stones to question just
why we haven't all worked for all these decades....has been drummed
out of this community just as damn fast.
Sorry to 'rant'....yet it's a subject interwined with proper maintenance of our trails;
pay-to-play and a myriad of other subjects that few seem very willing to talk about for our kid's sake.("hey, I'm to busy modding my rig and worrying about who will bring those 'weenies' to that next big ride to care about whether my kid is taught about standing up for true multi-use issues or working
together on those same trails.....).