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Lee, you have to understand that reasonable conversation cannot continue when
others want to call those in opposition nasty names, and taunt, rather than to
discuss the issues at hand. Since this is also being written on NSMB.com
"turf", it is no place for naysayers.
I am not condoning what Ms. Kraal did, but in her doing it, I see her more as
rather naive, but determined. I sympathize with her because I understand her
frustration. I have heard many stories from people over the years about hiker-
biker conflicts on the North Shore, and elsewhere. It is not all "smelling
like roses" in the woods. Don't fool yourself into thinking that it is.
What if some mountain bikers were fined, or charged, rather than rewarded, for
"unsanctioned" activities inside the public forests, and DNV did not go out of
their way to "sanction" the trails in 2008, but to enforce their many
environmental protection laws/bylaws, etc.? You would all be in the same boat
as Ms. Kraal.
There are many of us who see what mountain bikers are doing as a form of
ecological vandalism, and "sabotage" of a different sort. We have very
different worldviews. Never the twain shall meet.
That is all I have left to say, here. Another time, another place… maybe, Lee.
April 17, 2015, 1:23 p.m. - Terrafirma
#!markdown Lee, you have to understand that reasonable conversation cannot continue when others want to call those in opposition nasty names, and taunt, rather than to discuss the issues at hand. Since this is also being written on NSMB.com "turf", it is no place for naysayers. I am not condoning what Ms. Kraal did, but in her doing it, I see her more as rather naive, but determined. I sympathize with her because I understand her frustration. I have heard many stories from people over the years about hiker- biker conflicts on the North Shore, and elsewhere. It is not all "smelling like roses" in the woods. Don't fool yourself into thinking that it is. What if some mountain bikers were fined, or charged, rather than rewarded, for "unsanctioned" activities inside the public forests, and DNV did not go out of their way to "sanction" the trails in 2008, but to enforce their many environmental protection laws/bylaws, etc.? You would all be in the same boat as Ms. Kraal. There are many of us who see what mountain bikers are doing as a form of ecological vandalism, and "sabotage" of a different sort. We have very different worldviews. Never the twain shall meet. That is all I have left to say, here. Another time, another place… maybe, Lee.