Across the Rubicon - Movie

[HummBebe]

Thank you so much! It is a great cause.

Since HUMMER/GM uses the Rubicon to test their vehicles, it makes sense that HUMMER owners would be able to help too.

HUMMER/GM has donated quite a bit of money and materials, gloves flashlights, rain poncho's etc., to assist the Rubicon Trail Foundation in their work weekends. They even donated 6 of their marketing people for a work weekend this last August, and a few thousand $ for the party afterwards.

We are so new as a brand to the land use issue scene, but there are so many areas in the country where public land is at the risk of being lost forever. Moab, Colorado, and Texas have all lost land recently.

Since we use it, we need to help protect it.

Thanks again for all those who have shown support!

[Cranky Steve]

Excellent cause, thanks to all for participating. The whole Country is paying attention to what happens to the 'Con, so it is imperative we all make sure it stays open, and set the example that will be used to keep trails all over the US from closing!

Thanks Bebe!!

[HummBebe]

BTT- is there anyone else who is interested???

Post up and donate.

Land use issues don't go away if we ignore them, the land goes away...

Help us save the Rubicon, lets show them that HUMMER owners care and want to be involved.

[HummBebe]

Here is what is happening on the 11th. A route designation meeting in Eldorado County, we could lose as much as 70,000 acres! Next Saturday.

Very sad.....

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=523637

And

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=523653


An excerpt.....

No matter what, roads and trails WILL BE CLOSED. It just matters how bad and how many. El Dorado National Forest has 3,172 miles of roads and OHV trails. Alternative D would cut that figure to 1,299 miles.

[CO Hummer]

For all that donate, I will send a personally autographed* CO Hummer 8x10.





*note: In certain instances where demand volume exceeds capacity, CO Hummer may allow timgco to assist with a COH signature stamp.

[HummBebe]

[DRTYFN]

Originally Posted by HummBebe

Here is what is happening on the 11th. A route designation meeting in Eldorado County, we could lose as much as 70,000 acres! Next Saturday.

Very sad.....

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=523637

And

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=523653


An excerpt.....

Unf*ckingbelievable!!!!!! This is exactly why each and every one of us has to become active in preserving our trails.

[HummBebe]

Especially sine the Rubicon Trail starts in the El Dorado National Forest...

[HummBebe]

Environmentalists ask federal judge to overturn Bush forest rules

TERENCE CHEA

Associated Press 11/3/06

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists asked a federal judge Wednesday to overturn the Bush administration's rules for managing the country's 155 national forests, arguing that the regulations illegally weaken protections for wilderness and wildlife.
Issued in December 2004, the rules represented a major shift in how the government balanced conservation and commercial interests in its 192 million acres of forest land. The management plan gave regional forest managers more discretion to approve logging, drilling and other projects without lengthy environmental studies.
Wednesday's hearing in federal court in San Francisco was the first since a coalition of environmental groups sued the Bush administration over the changes in February 2005, a month after they took effect.
Lawyers for the environmentalists told U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton that the rules do not include the safeguards for endangered wildlife and forests that federal law requires. The rules allowed forest management plans to be revised without environmental studies and repealed a requirement for forests to maintain "viable" populations of native wildlife.
They also argued that the administration failed to study adequately the environmental impact of changing forest management practices and did not give the public enough opportunity to comment on the revisions.
"The government must involve the public when it radically changes the management standards of our forests," said Peter Frost, an attorney for the environmental groups, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and Vermont Natural Resources Council.
Administration officials said the rules allow forest managers to respond more quickly to wildfires, invasive species and other emerging threats. The change shortened the time to get revisions made from as many as nine years to as few as two or three.
In court Wednesday, Cynthia Huber, a Justice Department attorney, defended the Bush forest rules. She said the administration provided 90 days of public comment when it issued its draft proposal to overhaul forest management rules in December 2002.
Huber also argued that environmental studies should only be required for specific projects that could impact forests and wildlife, not when management plans are revised.
The plan "definitely does not undermine protections of the forests" and complies with federal environmental laws, Huber said.
Judge Hamilton did not indicate when she might rule.
The lawsuit is one of several ongoing legal challenges to Bush administration policies for overseeing national forests.
Twenty environmental groups and four states sued the U.S. Forest Service last October when it repealed the "Roadless Rule," a Clinton-era ban on road construction in nearly a third of the nation's forests. In September, a federal judge reinstated the ban, ruling the agency failed to conduct necessary environmental studies before making the change.

Source:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercu...s/15904572.htm

[KenP]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

Unf*ckingbelievable!!!!!! This is exactly why each and every one of us has to become active in preserving our trails.

X2

Thanks for the info, Bebe!

[HummBebe]

btt -

[NJ H2]

Loved the 5 min. Preview Movie and can't wait to see the full half hour!
It's good to see someone making a difference! I may never wheel Rubicon but maybe in the future my son will, or his son will. I hope it's open for wheelers of the future! Thanks for the hard work, money, time and effort everyone put in to make this happen!
It's a great cause! Keep it up!