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In article <1994Oct17.152417.26033@pbhye.PacBell.COM>, mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman) writes:
|>>> There is no "right" to ride
|>>>off-road, and there are many environmental laws that it violates.
|>>>
|>>	There is a right to the pursuit of happiness and there is no law
|>>that specifically forbids riding off road. There are many areas that
|>>have been closed to ORV use however.
|> 
|>I wonder why.... Your right to pursue happiness (which, BTW, doesn't need
|>to be pursued -- it comes naturally to people who live in harmony with
|>nature) ends where it damages things that society values. It's also the
|>ultimate stupidity to engage in an activity that destroys its own reason
|>for being -- the beauty of nature.
|>
>>>>degree. Many of these routes when left alone for as little as 8 months 
|>>>>revealed no sign of previous travel.  Ribbons had to be placed to 
|>>>
|>>>Then you didn't look, or iddn't know what to look for. It takes decades,
|>>>if not centuries, for desert lands to recover from ANY physical disturb-
|>>>ance such as motorcycling or bicycling. That is well known.
|>>
|>>	Well known by who? You have references? With a wee bit of wind,
|>>I can believe that all evidence of an ORV passing dissapears in a matter
|>>of hours at most.
|> 
|>To your eyes. Actually, you destroy the desert version of topsoil, setting
|>back the plants & animals in the area DECADES.
|>

Look kook, you can believe whatever lies that you have been told.  Even a 
big motorcycle race in the desert merely MOVES the soil, not destroys it.
A lot of soil can be disturbed before much damage will happen to the scrub,
try it and see.  I have!!!  I lived in the Cal and Wash. deserts for years
and never saw the widespread destruction that you speak of!!!
  
Try thinking about something besides your own perspective for a change 
and mabye motorcyclists will feel more compelled to listen.  As long as you 
wage a Jihad on us you will only meet with equal resistance.  You don't like
to be told that you are a fool, do you?  Stop acting like a selfish little 
child