Joggers/Hikers/Spookers

[DirtTime]

I have no idea what may have changed or not, but I can tell you that this is an 847 acre wildlife management area that has been turned into a maze of mountain bike trails. Much of it is on the face of a very steep hill where it was necessary to literally hack the trails into the dirt (pick & shovel work), and clear (with chainsaws) each trail up the hill. The chainsawed logs are still there along side the trail. trees are painted with various colors to denote the different trail systems. It is not some covert activity that some one snuck in there and did. On top, the same kind of painted up, muddy, cleared trails blanket the whole area in a maze of trails that are so dense that most of them pass within site of one another, and there is no place that is out of earshot of bikers and hikers going by.

 

So you are definitely wrong. The rules/laws are not the same for everyone. As a hunter, do not get caught cutting even the scraggliest of saplings or branches. But apparently as long as you are not a hunter, you can get special dispensation from the state to mangle, dig, hack, paint, cut,  and disrupt any state land that you want to use in the name of organized recreation. Does that represent a change? ..... I have no idea. This area has been screwed up this way for quite a few years now (6, 7, years or more), and I'll bet it's not the only one that is being butchered in this way. And anyone who thinks that this kind of circus atmosphere can be installed on formerly undisturbed forested land without changing the hunting there is also mistaken. I have seen the change.

I honestly did not know you could get permission to alter state land as a hiker or cyclist.

[Doc]

I honestly did not know you could get permission to alter state land as a hiker or cyclist.

As an individual or unorganized group, I would be very surprised if you could get permission. But as a sizeable organization of mountain bikers, apparently the rules change. All I know is that somewhere I saw it written that such modifications on state land are illegal and leave you open for a nice fat ticket. And yet, here we have an obvious exception granted to an organization of mountain bikers. Draw your own conclusions. So now the "Joggers/hikers and spookers" occupy a special elite group that are able to have rules bent and broke for their benefit. I still get a kick out of that word, "spookers". It sounds like something that would occur as a Halloween activity .... lol.

[monkeyman2269]

I had a lady see me run across a crick in shorts. And do a circle around my stand lol