Well I might as well go ahead and get it out there. Yea, it’s a real hot button issue for some. But then some people will always have issues.
I am a firm believer in preservation. Although creating a wilderness area only limits the access to a very few. The remainder will never see it. Then after a generation or so it will be forgotten, even fewer will care about its importance. And that will be the next step in losing it all forever, apathy.
Now based on the fact that I often travel in the backcountry in a jeep, people might identify me as an off-roader. I try to disassociate myself from the bulk of that group as many are a bad example of how to use, and keep using, our public lands. It’s not a case of loving it to death but simple, self-centered ignorance. I always practice ideals like “tread lightly” and “leave no trace”.
So you’ve probably figured out by now that I’m not a zealot. Just a middle of the road guy…. a regular Joe. But I think there are many of you out there like me. You love to spend your free time outdoors. You want to maintain that freedom. You want to be a good steward of our public lands. And maybe along the way you just might enlighten some others to your viewpoint.
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