low impact horse camping

["Sandy Bolinger" <bolinger@bigsky.net>]

 

  

----- Original Message -----

From: Sandy Bolinger

To: truman.prevatt@netsrq.com

Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:12 PM

Subject: Re: Re: FW: Wild Horses Debunked!

About 25 years ago we had a group from the Sierra club book a horse packing trip with us into the Beartooth wilderness.  At the time, I believe we were some of the first proponents of environmentally friendly horse packing(at least in Montana!)...both my husband and I had been instructors with the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander Wyoming which stressed heavily the concept of "leave no trace of you visit".When the Sierra clubbers arrived they had enough gear with them to sustain an army for a year!!! ;o)  We tried to explain the concept to them of low impact camping...tried to get them to whittle down some of their unnecessary gear..all to no avail...They didn't have a clue and were not willing to learn...That's when I dropped my membership also.

  

----- Original Message -----

From: Truman Prevatt, PhD

To: OasisArab@aol.com

Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net

Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 4:46 PM

Subject: RC: Re: FW: Wild Horses Debunked!

While I agree that maybe this is off topic, is that that far off topic? I am not referring to cattle here. But we riders are going to come face to face with the environmental movement more and more in the future. It doesn't matter if it is saving wild horses that are starving to death because of the lack of food an water in the wild to support them just to see them die from hunger or thirst or if it is getting domestic horses out off of public lands because they "introduce noxious weeds or destroy the water sheds."

This is a movement which we have to deal with. We can't do it with emotion nor can we just will them to go away with the delete key.

There is a vast difference between conservation and the current environmental movement. We all care for the public lands. The ranchers can't destroy what keeps them making a living.  He must conserve them. Most all endurance riders I know want to conserve the wild lands.

I am not sure the environmental movement is as much concerned about the conservation of our lands as they are with their own political agenda. That is the exact reason I gave up my membershipof 20 years in the Sierra Club when I determined their exact view on horses and horse back riding some number of years ago.

Truman

OasisArab@aol.com wrote:

Steph
Would you please do something about this person and his posts
this is not endurance and should not be posted
Steph I went in the dog house about the pictures of the USS Cole just before
Vets Day
I know I have a delete key and have been using it but enough is enough
Please
Bill

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