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Reader’s letter: Off-roaders have not ruined land
Our favorite OHV basher is on his anti-off-road soapbox again. The man has no shame.
He included this time (Guest Soapbox by Russell Drake Feb. 2) a photo of the same area he complained about last time (Oct. 6, 2007). The implication is that the tracks shown in the picture were left by off-roaders. What do you think? Are these motorcycle or ATV tracks or even the tracks from a dune buggy?
The picture is of the same burn in the property he called Section 11 in his previous article. The property he says is being trashed by off-roaders. The property he says should be supporting nesting red-tailed hawks and great horned owls with seven-foot wingspans.
This is the same property, in fact, that a subsequent opinion writer asked us to check out for ourselves because when she looked at it she found that Mr. Drake was being less than truthful.
I checked it out. She is right; it is not trashed. The property is bounded on three sides by either residences or businesses. It has no high places where such birds would nest even if Old Woman Springs Road didn’t run through the middle of it. But it does and it’s plenty busy.
I saw the tracks Drake depicted. My guess is they were made by a truck, a red one with State Forest Service logos on the doors. You know, the one that was in there putting out the fire?
And I find it telling that in all the pictures Mr. Drake has offered, we don’t see a single OHV. But that’s not to say that he doesn’t, even when he closes his eyes.
Mike Hawkins
Yucca Valley
He included this time (Guest Soapbox by Russell Drake Feb. 2) a photo of the same area he complained about last time (Oct. 6, 2007). The implication is that the tracks shown in the picture were left by off-roaders. What do you think? Are these motorcycle or ATV tracks or even the tracks from a dune buggy?
The picture is of the same burn in the property he called Section 11 in his previous article. The property he says is being trashed by off-roaders. The property he says should be supporting nesting red-tailed hawks and great horned owls with seven-foot wingspans.
This is the same property, in fact, that a subsequent opinion writer asked us to check out for ourselves because when she looked at it she found that Mr. Drake was being less than truthful.
I checked it out. She is right; it is not trashed. The property is bounded on three sides by either residences or businesses. It has no high places where such birds would nest even if Old Woman Springs Road didn’t run through the middle of it. But it does and it’s plenty busy.
I saw the tracks Drake depicted. My guess is they were made by a truck, a red one with State Forest Service logos on the doors. You know, the one that was in there putting out the fire?
And I find it telling that in all the pictures Mr. Drake has offered, we don’t see a single OHV. But that’s not to say that he doesn’t, even when he closes his eyes.
Mike Hawkins
Yucca Valley
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mydoit2002 wrote on Jan 7, 2009 11:34 PM: