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Historic Roadways Protection Act

Watch out for all those Canadian wolves currently being released somewhere near our home on the Grand Mesa during your Power Wagon recoveries. We have an eight foot high and around 1/2 mile of wildlife fence surrounding our acreage. Never occurred to me when I was building it that we would need it for wolves. Moose, elk, deer...no problem. Bear and Mountain Lion just climb over. Wolves though come in packs.

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Bob is my big problem up there. Bar Oil Bear we call him. He has taken down cases of sodas, gasoline, bar oil, hydraulic fluid, mining helmet...you name it. Thankfully a neighbor gave me a cheap enclosed trailer to store crap.
 
Here in Arizona there are many types of off road groups that work with the Forest Service, State Land, and BLM, with trail programs, clean up along the roads and trails, help layout roads and trails as well as safety training courses. The Arizona G&F as well as other agencies State and Federal offer OHV materials such as being a responsible vehicle operator, tread lightly etc. etc. Many States offer these same programs as well. Because people have 4x4 vehicles such as ATV's, SxS's, Jeeps, trucks, etc., and use our State and Federal Lands for recreation, doesn't make them all irresponsible user's! I'm retired law enforcement in a rural area, and I've seen plenty of irresponsible actions in our forests, from campers, hunters, OHV users, wood cutters, illegal dumpers, etc.! Unfortunately we have the "Stupid Is As Stupid Does" irresponsible people in our society, but the large majority of State and Federal Land user's are responsible user's of the land, even those of us that have SxS's....so please don't lump us altogether!
 
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Other than by snowmobile the majority of our Western Colorado off-road users are limited to between mid-June to early October for recreational land usage. Snow and mud keeps people out. It's not even fun to drive our Ram Power Wagon to nearby Blue Mesa Reservoir this time of the year with a low of minus 39F forecasted for the MLK holiday night. I've downhill skiied at minus 26F and it's too cold.
 
Come January 20th when the Dolores River National Monument is no longer a concern, I'll stop flushing twice to provide water to the 40 million people downstream. The dirt roads will remain open for our Ram Power Wagon to travel.

This was the worse water scare poster for it.
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That is DISGUSTING! :oops: What the hell does locking up government land have to do with the water. And throwing out minorities? WTF? Are there any Caucasians, women, native Americans, African Americans, or resident aliens down stream? And of course government lands and the river are already protected. Reminds me of when Clinton was at the Grand Canyon to announce new Monuments and talked about the threat of condos being built on the Canyon Rim. The lies, the lies they use. Oh, and most Dolores water is consumed by farms and was over allocated by the Mcphee reservoir meaning most years the water hardly reaches the Colorado, and the goal is more to have enough water to keep the eco system sustained. Its such a tight balance I have plans to buy some land for development and take some farmland off line to help keep more water in the river.
 
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