all your way
Scholar and sitcom star Larry David once said - well, he said it in season four, when he took that hooker to the Dodgers game so he could use the carpool lane - that a good compromise meant that no one involved was happy with the outcome.
With Professor David's words in mind, I'm asking myself just how effective this decision is supposed to be then:
The United States Forest Service announced Wednesday that it would begin a nationwide process of designating which trails are suitable for use by off-road vehicles, a move intended to limit damage to national forests.
Until now, the nation's 155 designated forests and 20 grasslands have not had uniform policies for off-road vehicles. Some Western forests gave them virtually unlimited access; others, like the Chattahoochee-Oconee forest in Georgia, provided designated trails.
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At the Idaho office of the Blue Ribbon Coalition, a group of all-terrain vehicle users, the founder, Clark Collins, said he welcomed the new rules. "We feel pretty good about the final product," he said. "In fact we've worked cooperatively with the chief and his staff throughout this process."
Stories like this one sometimes miss the mark; based on what I've seen and reported on in the past, most of these little, "grassroots" groups, whether they may know it or not, are being used as a wedge by law firms or other organizations with an eye towards exploiting as much unpaved, un-strip malled land as they can.
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