One can just cite the burning of fossil fuels and air pollution as another reason why ATV use of trails should be restricted on public, federal land. That's what I intend to do. I would make the same argument for snowmobile use of the trails. The snowmobile interests will soon be gone anyway, as snow cover diminishes on the Wisconsin landscape, due to a warming climate..
As for BFW's mission, being a member myself, I would vote that BFW's mission include helping to fight the big fight against global warming, because it most certainly has adverse ramifications for bicycling outdoors, particularly in summer. As a matter of fact, I believe it should now be the mission of every organization to include promoting things and actions by their organization and others (within their areas of responsibility or interest), that reduce fossil fuel burning (much like all organizations seem to promote recycling now days, which is good. When it comes right down to it, preserving the ability of Earth to maintain temperatures hospitable for life is something all organizations and all people ought to have a salient interest in seeing achieved. - Mike "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr. On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:04:35 -0500 Marjorie Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All good points...but they don't do much towards preventing ATVs from > sharing trails with bikes as snowmobiles are already allowed to use > many > such trails. Air pollution sucks and BFW is certainly against > it...but it > is not a battle that can be fought against ATVs without bringing in > the > snowmobiles. And arguing against snowmobile use is a huge battle > that I am > not prepared to fight at this moment and which strays pretty far > from BFW's > mission. ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
