Article in Ash Cit-Times, Tellico

[gearguywb]

Here is a link to an article on the front page of today's Asheville Citizen Times regarding the Tellico issue.
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770905103

 

[CandyPants]

Thanks!!!! Appreciate you keeping you eyes open for this stuff!

 

[fireman294]

Silt with no rain?

I wonder how there can be silt when the area is in an extreme drought.

 

[Sputnik40]

Interesting article to summarize a lot of viewpoints - althought the antagonist quotes were lacking.

I for one, will spend thousands less on LC mods if there are partial or complete trail closures. I will continue to visit Tellico - but I'll bring a fishing pole and throw any of those trout I catch in the trash just as a piss off to those organizations (note: I'm a well known environmentalist with thousands of hours of documented volunteer time - so don't take my comment out of context like an idiot yuppie armchair environmentalist would - I actually get off my arse and do something besides pay dues and put a bumper sticker on my car).

Can anyone tell I'm upset about this topic!

 

[concretejungle]

sputnik, i feel your pain!!

When i was a student at WCU, there was a stream that ran through the bottom of campus. It had a ton of trout in it....so, sometimes before class, i would fly fish a little (catch and release). Well, one day i was down there and i had caught a huge rainbow. So, i decided to keep him for dinner. I put him on a stringer and fastened it to a root from an overhanging tree allowing it to remain in the water and then continued to fish. I turned around and there were a few hippie environmentalist that were yelling at me calling me a killer. They proceeded to steal my fish and throw it back into the river (note, the fish was already dead)! I was pissed beyond pisstivity, so i actually hit one of them in the face with my fly from about 20 yards out and then jumped out of the river and caught up with them. I told them in a very aggressive manner how stupid they were because they had now "Wasted" that fish as i was going to eat it. I told them they were completely contradicting their views. I then managed to push one of them into the river and then decided to cut my loses and pack up and head to class.

But it really left a message to me of how hypocritical a lot of environmentalist are.

I love the environment as much as the other person. But i enjoy using the environment too. THere is a balance.

on a side note, i also found it amazingly ironic that this group were all wearing various "jam band" shirts. I am a huge dead head and jam band fan. I wonder what their view of me would be had they seen me at a show before the saw me fishing?

 

[cruiser4life]

When i was a student at WCU, there was a stream that ran through the bottom of campus. It had a ton of trout in it....so, sometimes before class, i would fly fish a little (catch and release). Well, one day i was down there and i had caught a huge rainbow. So, i decided to keep him for dinner. I put him on a stringer and fastened it to a root from an overhanging tree allowing it to remain in the water and then continued to fish. I turned around and there were a few hippie environmentalist that were yelling at me calling me a killer. They proceeded to steal my fish and throw it back into the river (note, the fish was already dead)! I was pissed beyond pisstivity, so i actually hit one of them in the face with my fly from about 20 yards out and then jumped out of the river and caught up with them. I told them in a very aggressive manner how stupid they were because they had now "Wasted" that fish as i was going to eat it. I told them they were completely contradicting their views. I then managed to push one of them into the river and then decided to cut my loses and pack up and head to class.

Now that's a funny story. You should have "meated" them like Piven and his buddies did to the environmentalist wackos in the movie PCU.

 

[GXO]

Or suggest that the fat hippie replace the fish on your dinner plate....mmmm.hippie.

 

[Carp]

Note to Heather: Don't reference this thread in the Land Issue area, the meaning of a few posts could get misconstrued, possibly, perhaps, ...

Or suggest that the fat hippie replace the fish on your dinner plate....mmmm.hippie.

I bet hippies don't taste anything like fish. Seems like a bad trade to me.

 

[Sputnik40]

That is indeed a great story! Thanks for sharing . Damn funny!

As to linking and miscontrued comments - wish ya'all coulda been around when they were starting the Access Designation Process for the three Florida National Forests - folks on both sides were raiding BBSs and editing comments left and right. After the one year process turned into a multi-year fiasco that died down.

...Hmmm, gets me to thinking that most of the damage being caused in the Ocala NF was due to younger idiots running 4 wheeles and race bikes off designated trails - I was shocked that a whole new bypass got created at the top of Slickrock between my visit in May, and the trip in early August - thank goodness the volunteers were welding up some stout anti-bypass protection - someone needs to target those trail by-passing idiots somehow???

 

[GXO]

landmines.

 

[Sputnik40]

landmines.

For once, I fully agree with one of your off the wall comments. I really really like that idea.

 

[GXO]

was that off the wall?