[pct-l] Why MTB's will never be on the PCT

[Grant Bennett]

Beautiful!

On 10/21/12 4:39 PM, Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2012, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
>> From: Me <hikerighthikeleft at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [pct-l] Why MTB's will never be on the PCT
>>
>> the USFS shows
>> an impartial image towards bikes. What I see happening is the USFS
>> heading
>> off a stronger assault in the future by opening up the issue now
> What people need to understand about the forest service is that it is
> not a conservation organization. It's role is to manage the use of
> the resource. Their goal is to manage all the uses of the resource so
> that all users get a slice of the pie. They lean more heavily toward
> allowing and managing extractive uses rather than conservational ones
> most of the time since just leaving things be is not really "using"
> the resource. So the forest service doesn't see anything as being an
> "assault" at all. Just another use to manage.
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