Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

Latest post 09-24-2008 8:54 PM by BDABsUglyFJ60. 9 replies.
  • 08-14-2008 6:18 PM

    Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    OK people, it's time to speak up! As most of you know we're on the verge of losing a lot of state land to off-road vehicle recreation. Let your voice be heard, it'll take less than a minute or two to help make a difference.

    The group  www.arizonaoffroaders.org has started an effort to collect names, addresses and emails who want to preserve public access to riding areas. Stand up and be counted. Normally I don't like giving out my address/email too much but who cares if I get some junk (not that there's any evidence they will use it for that). They have started an electronic petition to demonstrate to the people and representatives that we care deeply about continued access to public land.

    Please visit to read and sign the petition. If you sign, be sure to follow the follow-up email link to record your signature. And then help spread the word.

  • 08-15-2008 12:47 PM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    THANKS CHRIS! OK FELLOW WHEELERS, LETS NOT SLACK ON THIS ONE.

    I will also post on the other forums assuming Chris has not already.

     

  • 08-15-2008 5:19 PM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

     I printed out the flyer and little cards and posted them here at our work facility (Bombardier aircraft maintenance-Tucson) for everyone interested to read and hopefully take home and sign the petittion on-line.

    Craig

     I am a 40 year old kid with a Jeep!

  • 08-16-2008 1:10 PM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    Shad and I both signed the petition. Big Smile 

  • 08-16-2008 1:30 PM In reply to

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    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

     Done

     

  • 08-26-2008 11:50 AM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    NO ENOUGH PEOPLE, PEOPLE! PLEASE EMAIL IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW: www.arizonaoffroaders.org

     

  • 08-28-2008 12:20 AM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

     I'm on board!

    JD

    2004 JEEP Rubicon a.k.a. "Ruby"

    Just Exploring Everything Possible 

  • 09-14-2008 3:20 PM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    I'm surprised they aren't more signatures at this point. I told everyone I knew, even non-wheelers.

     

    Here's an interesting article from Washington that sums up the feelings of a lot of off-roaders. I'd like to see bigger fines and even jail time. It's about enforcement, not restrictions. Exerpts:

    ""....But Kabrich's presence on this damage-surveying mission was evidence that public land managers like McNamee have a very powerful ally in their battle against outlaw four-wheelers: other four-wheelers, the vast majority of whom are law-abiding and are growing increasingly quick to blow the whistle on their misbehaving brethren.

    In two cases -- one on Bethel Ridge north of Highway 12, one at Sleepy Park Meadow southeast of Rimrock Lake -- the club four-wheelers reported the perpetrators to law enforcement, complete with eyewitness descriptions and license numbers. Those cases are still being investigated, and charges are likely, say enforcement officers.

    In another, in the Milk Creek trail circuit east of the Little Naches, other four-wheelers took photographs of the three mudders -- none of which had license plates -- and posted them on a club's Internet site with the request, "Anyone know these rigs?" Club members' response in chasing down the mudders' identities was fast and furious, with the sort of fervor generally reserved for capturing child molesters.

    Dave Walters, a member of a Tri-Cities four-wheeler club called the Peak Putters, found a photograph of one of the mudders -- grinning from the driver's seat with a beer can in his hand -- particularly galling.

    "That type of mentality is something I have a whole big problem with," Walters said. "We want to hang the guy. I don't care who he knows or who he's friends with, I want him hung."

    Walters was just blowing off steam, of course -- and said so moments later -- but his immediate response was indicative of the growing enmity of responsible off-roaders toward mudders. The latter damage not just the backcountry, but the reputation of the entire four-wheeling community.

    "We just don't need it," Walters said. "It's like any other group: 95 percent are good, upstanding people, but the 5 percent get all the press and make the rest of us look bad...""

  • 09-17-2008 12:47 AM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    I forced everyone at work to sign up. Maybe an email out to all the inactive users would help a little.

  • 09-24-2008 8:54 PM In reply to

    Re: Petition to fight back against eco freaks and excessive government regulation

    I read that article. Stupid people doing stupid things hurts it for the rest of us.

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