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RE: [RC] National Forest Lands - Bob MorrisMel: If you go to http://www.fs.fed.us/land/staff/spd.html you will see the size of the parcels range from 0.03 acres to 254.18 acres in size. That makes these isolated pieces of land very difficult to manage. There is no contiguity in the slightest and makes for boundary problems as well. Look closely as to exactly what the total 4522 acres consist of and who the adjacent owners are. Bob Bob Morris Morris Endurance Enterprises Boise, ID -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mel Cochran Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:20 AM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] National Forest Lands This sickens me. The Forest is coming off their big centennial celebration, touted their proud history of "caring for the land and serving people." They even made a movie about it"The greatest good" based on Gifford Pinchot's idea of the "greatest good for the greatest number in the long run." Now, they are pimping out "small isolated parcels" of Public lands to the highest bidder to pay for a dying program. If this really were about children and the future - I think that the higher benefit would be in making sure that our public lands are totally protected to that future generations can have unspoiled lands that will be there forever and are immune to being sold any time the government gets a whim and oversteps their fiscal bounds. Now, in my mind this whole thing started as a bill to help pay for hurricane Katrina recovery. I am sure that all of you are completely aware of the vast amounts of dollars that have been hemmoraged toward this disaster. Rather than making sure that an effecient and dollar wise system was in place to actually help victims, money was just pushed at the problem and was spent very very unwisely. I know, I was there and saw it first hand. The bill pretty much died, but it appears to have planted the seed that selling FS lands is OK. No-one would dream of selling Park Service lands because the general public has a "sacred" mentality about them. Most people have the misconception that Forest Service lands are nothing but timber plantations and are expentable. I live in GA - most of the public lands in GA that people recreate on are Forest Service, but if you ask someone where they are at they would say "the national park" I think that politicians are taking advantage of this and trying to slip this in under the radar. The Chattahoochee-Oconee has 5,000 acres for potential sale. Now, those of you who are familiar with that forest, please tell me how many of those parcels will be isolated and of little use. You know how mountain land is booming. This sale will bring premium prices and will help developers build more mountain getaways on former public lands. UGGGGHHHH! In my mind, the Forest Service is a dying agency unless some things change. They are trying to run under a "corporate model" which in my mind means less people doing more and more work. They think that they can manage our public lands with a skeleton crew. Poor fiscal management and a lack of "brand recognition" have left national forests with dwindling budgets and shortsighted policies. They are no longer a big picture organization. They can barely see past this year's budget. It is very very sad to me. I think their new slogan should be "We're listening, but we don't care" Sorry about the rant. Mel ____________________________________________________________ _____ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/ 01/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-= 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!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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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