BLM access about to be lost

greenrvgreen wrote:
4Runner, you know better than this. The OP/Troll is using your obvious love of our open lands to try and convince you (and all of us) that this is a public-policy issue about free access to federal lands.

How dare you imply that I'm am unwittingly being led down some path unawares to me. I didn't run my own company before I was 30 by being misled by fast talkers. While the OP may have his own agenda (which you have interpreted to be about free access to public lands), the transfer proposed by the BLM personally offends me on many levels.

Just to be clear, this isn't a place that I've ever stayed. But we frequent this area every summer, generally spending two to four weeks camping throughout the year. We actually drove past this very site twice in the last 10 days. While we can access some more remote sites with our rig, there are others who want to boondock who have larger rigs that can't navigate some of the rougher county roads in this rugged country. Salida East provides a boondocking spot for those people.

In the past, we have camped at the various campgrounds along the river when they were run by the BLM. For $10 a night, you got your money's worth. Now that the state runs them, the fees have gone up to $25/night (with the required day pass) with no increase in the level of service.

The BLM hasn't addressed the issue of where all these boondockers will go now, and how they (the BLM) will address the increased pollution and environmental impact on these areas.

So please greenrvgreen, quit trying to infer you have any idea of my motivations. You apparently haven't even read my posts to begin to understand my concerns. If find it personally insulting.