Tesla Park again!

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jb1k

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This is fairly long-winded compared to the previous articles. Doesn't pass muster for objective reporting...

http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_10378f38-9d65-11e2-8f07-001a4bcf887a.html

My response to the editor is below. I somehow doubt that it will see print...

I have just finished reading your 'Tesla Park' report dated Thursday 4/6/2012. As a responsible Hiker, Mountain Biker, and Off Road enthusiast, I find it biased and infuriating.
Questions beg to be asked where the Independent Reporters were when they leveled the Tassajara and El Charro Valleys to build thousands of new homes. Or where the actual facts lie when you claim that OHV use is the least important type of (outdoor) recreation in California.

Furthermore,you are misleading your readers when you write about Tesla Park. There is no Tesla Park! Except perhaps in the minds of the Friends of Tesla. I have toured the Tesla sight. It is a COAL mine. Mounds of tailings still remain, how does this fit in with the green vision?. The question begs to be asked. How can this be a site that the environmentalists cherish?

I also submit to you that I frequently fly in and out of the Bay Area on business and have gazed down upon thousands of acres of pristine and protected open space. Carnegie is a pittance by comparison. And is finally being responsibly managed. But is in danger of being overidden due to the recovering economy and the closure of both Clear Creek and Stonyford. Salute Randy Caldera for his common sense and management skills.

In closing, I can only hope that the new plan consists only of designated trails that will be properly maintained so we can enjoy the fruit of what we paid for some 15 years ago..
 
EastBayDave

EastBayDave

- Kawasaki Fanatic -
Silliness. So many quotes about "damage." Nature rebounds quickly. All you have to do is look at the OHV park on Redwood Road, which completely recovered in a decade or so. You nowadays can't tell it was a OHV park anymore. They should open it back up...
Wieskamp added, "I respect other people's recreation. I have no objection to finding a place somewhere for off-road use that would not offend nature or neighbors."
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...just not in OUR backyard! If not here, where? Treehuggers would have a problem no matter where it was located!

"Offend nature."
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That's a good one. How do you offend nature?

Everyone needs to respond to your representatives on these threats to the few places we have left near the Bay Area to ride offroad. Time for petition?

-ebd
 
OldFatGuy

OldFatGuy

Fondling Member and 1%er
If we were trying to ride dirtbikes at the dump, the environmentalists would bitch that we were disturbing the seagulls.
 
Papi

Papi

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The biggest problem I see with these "reports and articles" is that most of us have a 1950's to 1990's attitude and belief system when it comes to outdoors recreation, OHV use, etc.

The report writers and news folks have a > 2010 attitude (greenies), and we are so far apart on perception that it's unlikely we will ever win. If we aren't suing and banded together, they (the greenies) will just lock us out of our own public lands eventually.

To date, I have yet to see any single group on our side.
 
EastBayDave

EastBayDave

- Kawasaki Fanatic -
The's greenies are just as one bud puts it "something for the Idle-Rich to do."

I guess they get bored w/all that $$$....wish I had that problem.
 
Papi

Papi

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OldMadBrit said:
What's the issue with them? On the surface they appear to be genuine.
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So does the $3 bill.

I will say the marketing speak of the BRC, coupled with past experience has shown me they have no teeth in the game beyond graciously taking your membership dues. And if every person who gave money to the BRC and "other" groups got serious in 2008, we could have saved CC.
 
R1-Limited

R1-Limited

Banned
Papi said:
The biggest problem I see with these "reports and articles" is that most of us have a 1950's to 1990's attitude and belief system when it comes to outdoors recreation, OHV use, etc.

The report writers and news folks have a > 2010 attitude (greenies), and we are so far apart on perception that it's unlikely we will ever win. If we aren't suing and banded together, they (the greenies) will just lock us out of our own public lands eventually.

To date, I have yet to see any single group on our side.
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I agree with this and to counter this we have done as a whole a piss poor job educating our own community. The groups helping are as complacent as the majority of OHV recreationalists. There never is going to be any move forward until wee as a group be as united as the greenies are. They are like jihadists, they will fight amongst themselves until the find a common foe to fight then they unit.
 
Butch

Butch

poseur
Staff member
Papi said:
To date, I have yet to see any single group on our side.
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the problem is "WE" need to do the legwork. We need to show up to these meetings, we need to contact our Senators, Congresspersons and Assemblymembers.

And frankly, we alienate the people (BRC, AMA, etc) that want to help by ragging on them on line.

The idle rich have plenty of time to make thier case to the media etc. We do not seem to.
 
Papi

Papi

Mmmmm...Faster
Butch said:
And frankly, we alienate the people (BRC, AMA, etc) that want to help by ragging on them on line.
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I dont agree with this. All the supportive groups were brought in together, all asked how they could help, what exactly they would do, and all that was heard was crickets. Personally, I don't want to relive 2008-2009 ever again. Beating my head with a hammer would have been less painful. There was only one thing we should have done, That I begged and pleaded for, and that's sued.
 
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