Re: Horse right of way

["Dyane Smith" <sunibey@sisqtel.net>]

Maggie,
I'd get the regulations from the ranger in writing.  Could be he's right,
but the really good thing about government is that EVERYTHING is in writing.
The rest of it--welcome to the real world of politics.  Ticks me off too,
but I understand that hunting licenses (and I guess other revenue, although
I don't know what it would be) help support Fish and Game.  Anyway, hunters
seem to have a cozy relationship with Congress.  Trail Riders need one!
Dyane
N. Ca

----- Original Message -----
From: Maggie Mieske <mmieske@netonecom.net>
To: <Ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 7:03 AM
Subject: RC: Horse right of way


> Since we are sort of on the subject of horse's "rights" on roads...what
> about on public land?  Do horses have the right to go anywhere?  I ask
this
> because I grew up spending my summers in what is now Sleeping Bear Dunes
> National Lakeshore in Michigan.  They took our property away from us in
the
> mid 70s (a little old acre with a tar paper shack and an outhouse).
> President Nixon didn't even bother to answer my pitiful little letter
about
> how much we loved our shack!  We hunted and hiked those forests for years
> and I know them quite well.  You can still hunt on them except now that
> it's a national lakeshore, it's actually too crowded for that....so, I
went
> to the park ranger and asked him if I could ride my horse on a certain
> section of land.  He said I can't.  He said I can ride on the dirt roads
> but I wanted to ride on the old logging roads that are like 100 years old
> and barely noticeable.  I was really disappointed.  I also wanted to ride
> on the lakeshore...can't do that either (unless I ride the Shore to Shore,
> I guess and go on into Empire).  So, anyone with experience with federal
> regulations????  What irks me was that they felt they had to "save" this
> land for people use but when I want to use it, they say no.  But I can go
> ahead and shoot up the forests (hardly any deer left in the area now
> anyway!).  Makes no sense to me!
> Maggie
> Michigan
>
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