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Re: Mountain Bikers Destroy Rainforest Area as Large as a Football Field!

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From: Seth Hammond
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:17
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A few Michigan farmers whined about snowmobiles crossing fields planted with 
winter wheat back in '70 or so.  Guess where wheat came up first in the 
Spring?  Where the snowmobile tracks had been, that's where!

Musta been the concentration of moisture where snow more slowly melted.

The following Winter most farmers had new snowmobiles....
-- 
-Seth
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> tedorn44@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> In Arizona we have a great problem with cretins riding quads.
>>
>> ted
>
> Not just in Arizona, ted. I've spoken to small farmers that have lost
> as much as 1/4 of their crop from joyriders who don't recognize a newly
> planted field, and trample sprouting vegetable plants with 4-wheelers.
>
> We have very little respect for food in this country - farmers often
> fall victim of their own success. I wonder sometimes if we are doing a
> disservice by giving people so much leisure time that they don't know
> what to do with it.
>
> /Roy
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From: "Seth Hammond" <lesliesethhammond@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Mountain Bikers Destroy Rainforest Area as Large as a Football Field!
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 09:17:28 -0700
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