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Re: [RC] Nature Conservancy and horse trails - FASTGraphic - Heidi SmithI don't follow all this very closely, so I am not familiar with any lobbying of the NC to ban horses from PUBLIC lands... but if they choose to close trails on Nature Conservancy owned land, it is their perogative, as those are NOT public lands but privately owned lands, and they can do with them as they please.... unless, of course, you don't believe in private property rights, Scott? The problem is that the Nature Conservancy gets the money to BUY these lands both by using false pretenses (Jeannie alluded to this in one of her posts) assuring the donors that the land WILL be in a park-like management system AND they get taxpayer funds to use in buying it in many circumstances. (And it is the liberal congressmen who support giving federal monies to the NC to do this, as they have realized that selling lands to the NC locks it up more thoroughly than what they can do legislatively...) Trying to defend NC on the basis of private property rights is about on par with trying to defend a child molester on the grounds of freedom of expression. Heidi =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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