After decades of fighting to keep our public lands open to the public,
Eldorado National Forest is
now CLOSED - the first of who-knows-how-many-other
National Forests that will surely also wind up closed. The wonders of this scene are about to be relegated to the history books:
Unless we fight NOW and fight HARD, we have already lost this long war of attrition against our taxpayer-funded land managers and liberal-funded "environmentalists."
Really? Is the problem really this severe, or am I simply being melodramatic?
It's for real, folks. Take a look at the list of closed trails at the end of this post. How could anyone in their right mind think that the family in the above photo is harming the environment and should be locked out of Eldorado National Forest?
Pirate4x4's Land Use Forum has
several long discussions in which the bigwigs in the fight to keep your public lands open are obviously disappointed, flustered, and disheartened, and are working to develop a solution to this problem before it's too late. I think
this article from the Lake Tahoe News does a great job of illustrating the disservice to the American public, and the reader comments show how far out in left field the anti-access crowd truly is.
I'm not a fortune teller, but I think (I HOPE!) that this theft of the last remaining public forest lands in California's
El Dorado County may finally be the straw that's broken the camel's back. Not only is the general public getting sick and tired of these system-wide land closures and the wasted tax dollars, but
the U.S. Forest Service and the true science-based environmentalists are too.
Is there anything you and I can do to help preserve these public lands FOR the public instead of FROM the public?
Right now, the only sure thing is to
join and support BlueRibbon Coalition. They are
taking the lead in this fight, along with Cal4Wheel, UFWDA, AMA, and other pro-access environmentalist organizations.