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<blockquote data-quote="dogdinger" data-source="post: 564947" data-attributes="member: 9616"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Reading through this thread , I detect a lot of "ellitist snobbery". What permaculture said in his last post is right on. If we don't stick together on this issue and police our own ranks it wont be long before hunting is a thing only for those rich enough to hire an outfitter, its **** close to that now. The anti's are very good at the divide and conquer technique. You see it all the time in the bowhunting community...IE: compound shooters hate recurve shooters who hate the longbow shooters and they all hate the dredded crossbow shooters. Just look at the crap we all take from anyone on any other site about taking these "unethical" long shots, (like 500 yds). Derek01; this road closure thing is happening all over CO, and elsewhere. If you feel strong enough in your convictions, you should join the Blue Ribbon Coalition and help stop this. BigNgreen said it right early on in this thread " <span style="font-size: 12px"> Most of this is just a land grab in the name of multi use or as one sign put it "to enhance my non motorized experience". </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px">Another reason they closed off a lot of roads in that particular area was because of the gunnison sage grouse. The greenies have decided that this is an endangered species and have been trying for years to get it listed as such. They almost succeeded last year. If that had happened it would have closed down every road in the gunnison valley and here in the northern San Luis valley. I agree with whoever said it, there is enough roadless , wilderness land for all of you muscled up youngsters with lungs like greyhounds to use , and stay away from any whiff of gasoline, or sound of an internal combustion engine, so go there to do your hunting, and leave the ones who want to use an atv to retrieve game to their access. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">I hate to see discrimination in any form, and one of my pet peeves for yrs when it comes to national forest access has been the use of horses anywhere but don't you dare take a motorcycle there. I know that will get your dander up colo cowboy, but just remember this...... There were just as many motorcycles as there were horses on the north American continent when Columbus landed here. AJ </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dogdinger, post: 564947, member: 9616"] [SIZE=4]Reading through this thread , I detect a lot of "ellitist snobbery". What permaculture said in his last post is right on. If we don't stick together on this issue and police our own ranks it wont be long before hunting is a thing only for those rich enough to hire an outfitter, its **** close to that now. The anti's are very good at the divide and conquer technique. You see it all the time in the bowhunting community...IE: compound shooters hate recurve shooters who hate the longbow shooters and they all hate the dredded crossbow shooters. Just look at the crap we all take from anyone on any other site about taking these "unethical" long shots, (like 500 yds). Derek01; this road closure thing is happening all over CO, and elsewhere. If you feel strong enough in your convictions, you should join the Blue Ribbon Coalition and help stop this. BigNgreen said it right early on in this thread " [SIZE=3] Most of this is just a land grab in the name of multi use or as one sign put it "to enhance my non motorized experience". [/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=4]Another reason they closed off a lot of roads in that particular area was because of the gunnison sage grouse. The greenies have decided that this is an endangered species and have been trying for years to get it listed as such. They almost succeeded last year. If that had happened it would have closed down every road in the gunnison valley and here in the northern San Luis valley. I agree with whoever said it, there is enough roadless , wilderness land for all of you muscled up youngsters with lungs like greyhounds to use , and stay away from any whiff of gasoline, or sound of an internal combustion engine, so go there to do your hunting, and leave the ones who want to use an atv to retrieve game to their access. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]I hate to see discrimination in any form, and one of my pet peeves for yrs when it comes to national forest access has been the use of horses anywhere but don't you dare take a motorcycle there. I know that will get your dander up colo cowboy, but just remember this...... There were just as many motorcycles as there were horses on the north American continent when Columbus landed here. AJ [/SIZE] [SIZE=4][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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