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In article <38ei8e$1ic@mizar.usc.edu> mankin@mizar.usc.edu (Eric Mankin) writes:

>#Eric.. Your willingness to restrict others when you clearly do not
>#have the facts straight is abhorent. 

>#When will you ever back your idiotic, emotion fed, eco-bable "motorized
>vandals"
>#comments.. I'm waiting. if you can't please keep your emotions to
>#yourself.
>#Pat

>Speaking of emotion, I really don't think that "idiotic emotion fed eco-
>babble" is what anyone would call a neutral formulation.
>Quite unemotionally, I think you are in denial if you are able to tell
>yourself that the desert can absorb an unlimited amount of motorized 
>off road trafffic. Trails & roads thorugh, yes, vehicles fanning out
>throughout, no.

We have already covered this Eric.. I agree that certain desert terrain
can be harmed. What I disagree in is that emotion based  estimates 
equate this to be most of the desert when it is clearly not.

Please stop the rhetoric! 

>It has already been admitted that ORVs tear up places where
>they are used heavily (with the exception of areas like sand dunes).

Then why are the Kelso dunes closed?

>They also (again, speaking selfishly) make a lot of noise. One of the
>things I go into the desert for is the silence.

Ever heard of Project Stealth? I doubt it!

Get real!

Pat