we NEED every Sledders HELP...from EVERY state!!!

[mtdream]

We NEED every Sledders help, and businesses supported by sledders...


You can join ARRA to help, and others like SAWS, but what is really needed is phone calls to the senators and congressmen from EVERY yes EVERY state in the United States...Here are a few key data points...

let your Member of Congress know that you oppose H.R. 980, the "Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act." H.R. 980 would designate 23 million acres of land in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, as Wilderness. This means each of these 23 million acres would be made permanently off-limits to motorized and mechanized recreation, including off-highway motorcycles, ATVs, 4x4s, snowmobiles and mountain bikes.

Wilderness bills like H.R. 980 that designate mammoth tracks of land as wilderness without regard for current recreational opportunities and without input from the local and recreational communities are unacceptable to recreationists.



Only 2 of the 71 cosponsors on the legislation come from a state that would be impacted.
Much of the land that would be designated as wilderness does not meet the criteria in the 1964 Wilderness Act.
This legislation has no regard for local processes and decisions on how the land is appropriately managed.

Please take time to do at the very least join ARRA or Saws and send letters...but it is HIGHLY preferable to CALL your senators and congressman and let them know what you think...and that you hope they will OPPOSE this bill...

When calling here are some talking points...

1- This will have a dramatic affect on tourism, and will impact jobs in your state (if calling states with senate delegation that is imacted)

2- We need your help to shut this and other such bills down, as they are counter productive to leveraging a higher and greater good of our federal lands.

3- Much of the land that would be designated as wilderness does not meet the criteria in the 1964 Wilderness Act.

4- This legislation has no regard for local processes and decisions on how the land is appropriately managed.

5- As outdoorsmen, we love spending time in our forests, and our sport is needing yoru help.



Be kind, be professional , And most importantly, MAKE THE CALL!!! they track calls, they dont track emails...

Link to phone and address for you , and your [url=https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml]congressmen


It is imperative that you are respectful, succinct and focused...screaming and cursing at the people answering the phones will not help us...

For our friends coming out west...this will destroy the majority of the areas you like to come out here for, and will be devastating to local economies

Here is a macro map...

Here is a map of some of the Gallatin/Yellowstone area taht you have seen some of my pics from...

 

[murph]

"3- Much of the land that would be designated as wilderness does not meet the criteria in the 1964 Wilderness Act."

What are the criteria of the 1964 Wilderness Act?

Thanks for the update. I don't think Obama is a motorsports recreationalist.... so these issues don't seem to be on his agenda from our point of view, just the POV of the Sierra clubbers and enviro-terrorists

 

[mtdream]

not sure what your point is here....Do you sled? Do you enjoy OHV stuff? if so, this bill HR980 will shut down another (remember we already lost 23million this year) and now another 23 million acres...

Congress pusshes this...it was shut down a couple years ago...but now the illustrious politician from NY is pitching it again...the enviro-zealots and socialists of the current administrations are not very far apart...they are scratching each others back...

here are the classifications for wilderness...and the link to the original text...

DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS


(c) A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain. An area of wilderness is further defined to mean in this Act an area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which

(1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable;

(2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation;

(3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and

(4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or historical value.

these lands have roads....have been logged, in most cases bridges, and buildings in them, etc. etc. etc.

here is link to act text....http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fus ... legisAct#2

Did you send letters or make phone calls yet?

 

[murph]

Whoa! is this Snowest?

Yes, I ride a Nytro MTX and the girlfriend rides a Phazer MTX.

My question was not meant to enrage you. I understand and share your frustration over the closure of OHV areas.

Your own original post states the need for polite, clear and concise conversation with the idiots-- I mean politicians-- who are in support of this bill. I simply wanted to have more ammunition when I made my call to the politicians-- using terms directly from the "Wilderness Act" to demonstrate that this land does not qualify is a lot more effective than screaming profanities into the phone.

Thanks for the Wilderness Act quote and the link...

 

[mtdream]

Whoa! is this Snowest?
I simply wanted to have more ammunition when I made my call to the politicians-- using terms directly from the "Wilderness Act" to demonstrate that this land does not qualify is a lot more effective than screaming profanities into the phone.

Thanks for the Wilderness Act quote and the link...

ahhhh gotcha...too used to some of the other forums where we have people who are lemmings following the an anti agenda without even understanding it...

a thousand apologies!!!

 

[LoneViper]

Not to be sarcastic,but I wonder what the ratio of wilderness acres to Montana residents really is. I think we have plenty right now.

Lets all make the call!

 

[MotoPsycho]

This bill would almost CERTAINLY devastate the town of cooke city alone - summer AND winter...

 

[murph]

Click the link below for more info on this proposed bill and more talking points with you congressman/woman


http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=36269

http://roadracingworld.com/news/article/?article=36269