Rex Trail Closure

[naturalbornmudder]

Quite the contrary sir, as Ron's timestamp 7 days prior to the meeting date for posting shows, as does your one a week prior to that, AO did miss the boat. Not you, Mr. Prez, AO.
This is the same old discussion that you and I had several times before about getting the club populus involved more feverishly in the topics that present themselves in meetings and on this forum.
Any current AO member could have gone and sat in on the meeting and took the proverbial high ground, irregardless of whether we take to the literal high ground in the summer time, or not.
In my opinion, I believe that AO should have sided with the state on this one. In the spirit of temp closing a trail for repairs/healing as opposed to permanently closing a trail when it has gotten too bad to do anythign about.
Thats why it was a good idea for AO to have a committee for such things. If Ao wants to turn the tides of closed trails and banned rigs, we have to publically show our true colors, not just stick to the fights that directly effect us.
if we take the "as long as it isnt in my back yard" approach, the momentum of taking away things as well as the momentum of decisions being made without public consent will go unchecked.
Passionate? you bet yer a$$. This is my land as well as yours. We value the right to travel on trails and wheel responsibly. I'll be damned if I can sit by and watch my rights being taken away due to the actions of the abusive minority.
Our way lies with cooperation in the efforts to keep our land ours.

We cannot sit by and wait for our elected BOD to make every meeting, write every letter or brief every action. We need to work as a cohesive team to spread the good word, the responsible word to snow machiners, 4 wheelers, DNR, BLM, local governments, and John Q Public that AO is responsible intelligent, and unwillign to allow our rights to be taken away. AO is willing to fight to keep our trails open, but would rather cooperate to keep them open.