is that for real? FFS!
Ha ha ha I seem to have read it wrong. She is encouraging other people to go and protest but she will not be there because she has been protesting the "fromme fiasco" for years. Sorry about that… I think I was a little too entertained reading the email.
Here is the email. If someone wants this down I'll be happy to oblige.
As some of you may already know, by now - two new mountain bike trails were cut into the Mountain View Park wetland and upland area, with total disregard to the environmental assessments of the area. Plus, the bike trail that silts the Red legged frog breeding pond will not be decommissioned after all. Instead, DNV has put up new trail signage there, pointing the way for mountain bikers and brave hikers who will have to share the trail with speeding bikers (it is labeled "multi-use")!
The ceremony celebrating the completion of the new Bobsled trail could be protested by those with the gumption to do so. (Bobsled is a raceway trail for bikes and could also become a motorized off-road trail if the dirt bikers take a gander to it.) Several other trails have been built over vernal pools and swamps in the area over the past six months! Conservation groups have been too silent about it. We get the forests and wetlands we deserve, I guess. Not for the lack of my efforts over the past several years.
Mt. Fromme forest has been "unofficially" commercialized and privatized by this $800,000 federal "economic stimulus" grant project, still ongoing…The silence from our local conservation groups over all this mountain biking sprawl has allowed this to happen. Some environmentalists have even supported this project on Mt. Fromme!
Whether you attend this (or not) to protest it, or support it (?) - I, for one, will not be there. I have already protested this fiasco on Fromme for several years - it is your turn now. This event will be in the news! What will be said about this "celebration" will be determined by what our local environmentalists do about it. Take care, and good luck.
-Monica Craver-
(Abandoning the fight for protection of Mountain View Park wetland and upland area, Upper Lynn Valley. Nothing to save, anymore - the damage has already been done.)