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Yeah, I'm SHOCKED! too. They do that every year.
Posted by Kathy K at July 8, 2006 07:39 PM
The Hippie Bastards did it in West Virginia last year.
Posted by Mike Puckett at July 8, 2006 07:57 PM
How much air pollution does a 3100 car peace train make? How much p00p do 15,000 granola eating rainbowers expel over a weeks time? What would this crowd or the Forestry Service say if 15,000 Skin Heads, or 15,000 middle-class, white, Christian males tried to take over a National Park?
Talk about hypocritical!
Posted by Steve at July 8, 2006 08:12 PM
hile Ottaviano voiced concerns about preliminary assessments of the environmental impact resulting from the Rainbows' visit, a more positive view was offered by Michael Zopf, director of the Routt County Department of Environmental Health.
"As far as we were concerned, they were good guests," Zopf said. "The environmental ethic that they live and that they practiced, at least in Routt County, was exemplary."
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Perhaps Mr Simberg can follow up in a month and see
what the final tally is
Posted by anonymous at July 9, 2006 09:39 PM
Fuel-air explosives, delivered from altitude.
Follow up: napalm as needed.
Posted by B-Chan at July 9, 2006 10:14 PM
..Steve's comments reminded me of a rather humorous South Park episode when a film event was held there -- Hi-dee-Ho -- It's Mr. Hanky!
Posted by GBuc at July 10, 2006 11:06 AM
These aren't my favorite people. They're a little too blase on the subject of personal hygiene -hint: stay upwind - but they do try to minimize their impact on an area. 31,000 new trails? Get real. This is a manufactered statistic, designed to create a vision of locust-like desolation. Most of this is grass trampled in a meadow. No one there was felling trees and constructing bridges. Do the same aerial survey next year at the same time, and 99% of the "impact" will be unobservable .
I've hiked in the area in Oregon that they used; before and after. In terms of impact, I'd much prefer 15000 hippies to 30 loggers.
Please don't get on my butt about how logging is a great and wonderful thing; I'm not a tree hugger. I'm just pointing out what *real* impact looks like.
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Posted by bud at July 10, 2006 12:50 PM
31,000 new trails? Where did it say that?
I think they estimated 31,000 attendees, but only 40 miles or so of new trails.
Abandoned cars and dags? Dags? Yeah, dags. Oh, dOgs... Sure, I like dags.
Was Brad Pitt there tryin to get a new caravan for his mum?
Posted by John Breen III at July 10, 2006 02:24 PM
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