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I also would like to thank the TLCA for allowing me to voice my view(s) concerning this upcoming meeting affecting both the massive Ottawa and Hiawatha National Forests.

It's bad enough that some of our own national orv organizations rudely and arrogantly refuse to acknowledge that simple mistakes have been made affecting Joe average public's attendance at meetings they (we) sponsor....yet when the various governmental agencies invited to these same workshops treat the peon public requesting that these dates simply be published with the exact same attitude...then I'm here to say there is something rotten somewhere and it needs to be FIXED before more individuals are driven away from getting involved in the first place.

Anybody attending these meetings seeking to shut down large areas of land strictly for themselves should be confronted and dismissed so that larger issues can be dealt with on a much more inclusive and true "multi-use" level.

No other orv area in this country has allowed behind-closed-doors single-trackers to act in this arrogant of a manner and when we allow our national organizations ("sharedtrails"?) to not only look the other way in regards to these selfish land grabs...but do the same when laughingly simple meeting dates are left out of the public's right to view them and indeed become involved in these processes..we indeed ALL suffer from those ignorant actions both now and in the "you can't go down 'our' trail" future.

Either these national organizations need to start standing up for VAST MAJORITY light and full-size crowd 100% while forcing EVERYBODY into the effective multi-use community...or I can guarantee that we will see more of our very own government employees cow-towing to these cyclists in the hope that they shut off even larger tracts of OUR LAND to us 'land-raping' 4-wheelers. (and if you believe this is a stretch; ask your local politician how these cyclists use the "our impact vs theirs" stab-us-in-the-back argument each and every time they seek to shut these large areas down to everybody but themselves).

You can't play both sides of the fence and receive respect from anybody when it comes to sharing trails and properly maintaining them with the dollars needed from ALL segments within our community.
And the time has come with this "we can't force the Forestry service to publish our/their meetings" b.s. to finally call these national leaders; government employees and even manufacturers to the table regarding exactly that.