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Re: [RC] Right to Ride Legislation - Sky RanchThat's great. I got mixed "reviews" or responses from my calls to Colorado representatives. I sent e-mails and made phone calls when this issue first came up a couple of months ago, but I think we all need to keep making our viewpoints known. So, I'll do some more calling and e-mailing. I've mentioned this before, but I'll do it again -- I think it's very useful to join other horse clubs and groups, and encourage all to communicate to their representatives. For example, Back Country Horsemen of America is one group that does a lot of trail work, maintenance, with good connections to the US Forest Service and BLM agencies. I would urge all riders to join this group - membership fees do contribute to saving trails. www.backcountryhorse.com is the website - check it out. There truly is strength in numbers, so if you are concerned about keeping public access to trails, and keeping access for horses and mules to the trails that they helped to build and continue to maintain, by the way! -- join every horse club locally and nationally that you can, and lobby. Lobbying is a necessity, always has been, and politicians do *eventually* pay attention to e-mails, phone calls, letters, and personal contacts. I would urge you all to be pro-active, please, to be able to keep riding in our public lands. In addition to some groups trying to get horses off the trails, there is ALSO a movement nationwide to privatize public lands -- please don't let it happen. Once something is lost, it's a lot harder to get it back again. Carla Richardson Colorado ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Randall" <carol.randall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:05 AM Subject: [RC] Right to Ride Legislation Dear All, I just wrote our Congressmen using the website in Julie's email regarding keeping our trails open. FYI, Congressman Dan Lungren is a committed rider himself and shares our passion for keeping trails open. http://capwiz.com/aqha/issues/alert/?alertid=7749306&type=CO Carol Carol Randall Program Coordinator Office of Continuing Medical Education UC Davis Health System 3560 Business Drive, Suite 130 Sacramento, CA 95820 916.734.5384 FAX 916.453-9429 carol.randall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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