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Apologies to all for not spell checking the post or fully reading as a Realtor called in the middle about selling my house. I just pushed send mindlessly.

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Steven Proe

----- Original Message ----
From: Steven Proe <trails_first@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Barbara McCrary <bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Ann Blankenship <annie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Sheila_Larsen@xxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2007 12:27:30 PM
Subject: [RC] Knickerbocker experiances Trails and cows

Hi Folks;

I have extensive experiance on the situation at Cool, CA.

 

1. The state parks represenatives are not all our your or my friends. As it is my opinion that they want their job security and other reasons that the Bureau Of Reclamation, ie/ Dooooo-little and his cohorts.

 

2. The area is over used as a result of the loss of trails through out the State of CA. plus the increased population without additional Recreational areas and sufficent resourse to enforce the rules (maybe on purpose so the powers that be can close the area as they have tried to do previously in the last trail wars at Cool and Auburn btw the BOR and associated hacks that do their bidding in my opinion.

 

3. When there was grazing on the Knickerbocker lands, I brought to the attention and filed a complaint re; the Federal Rules for grazing on public lands were not being enforced by the state or BOR. Plus some of the leasee's were bring in feed to supplement forage after the cows ate the existing forage below the required standards.

Plus some had brought in equipment to dig-out portions of the lands and install little ponds other than the existing ponds and watercourses that the cows and others were also impacting, plus some one was putting salt blocks adjacent to the watercourses to entice I can only belive to keep the critters in or near the watercourses again against the grazing laws. Also at the meeting that I had with the above afore mentioned enties and leaseee's it came out that the leasee's were causing a problem with the opening and closing of gates so that children and some of the less people with a small strength in their upper body strength would have extreme difficuktly opening and then closing the gates that were present at that time on purpose.

 

4. At the time ofour meeting I also pointed out that the BOR and the State were not incompliance with the minimum health and safety requirments as there were not toilets nor trash cans throughr the Auburn State Wreckreation Area as prescribed by law.

 

5. The Area also was not ADA compliant and still is not compliant the American's with Disabality Act, even though the state I belive has been already sued on this issue.

 

The "Area" even has applied for funds and recieved them for a ADA funding grant for parking and some of the portions of the Quarry trail, that has mysteriously disappered since my last use of it.  

 

6. In short you cannot allow new user groups (existing user have priopities under the law that " NEW user groups" do not have the same rights. Yet the BOR and State do not take this into there decisions on use and events again in my opinion.

 

7. You can not put 20 lbs. of you know what in a 2 lb. bag with out manyland use and usergroup conflicts that now exist in the Auburn Recreation Area and apparently other areas that are being impacted beyond any rational person.

 

8. The restrooms and additional parking, trash bins andpickup were a direct result of my promise to push these issues legally against BOR and the State these "requests of mine have resulted in improvements and the removal ultimately of violators of the other rules mentioned before as they were apparently to expense to maintain their lease as prescribed by law, through out the SRA at least.