Creating a national monument around Moab.

[Michigander [OP]]

Outdoor companies ask Obama for Utah monument | Fox News

The second to last paragraph is just scary:
"Drillers have lately started buying up leases in the Moab area. Other groups from the Sierra Club to Great Old Broads for Wilderness complained to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar in 2011 about "rampant off-road-vehicle abuse, proposed uranium and tar sand mining, and oil and gas development" in Utah's canyon country."

I could definitely see this as a way to start restricting offroading. I have never wheeled out there but plan to someday.

[BIGGUY]

It's a sore subject that has been going back and forth for years. They complain about the mining and it's mining that made all the roads and trails in the back country there.

[snafu58]

LOL, can't have one without the other. Try to build a bicycle without hydrocarbons.

[BIGGUY]

Oh but you can! The bicycle fairy makes them.

[snafu58]

Does he drink at the Embassy or the Mast?

[BIGGUY]

[Old Cruiser]

Ohhh I need a bike... where are these fairies....

[Dave(man)]

look you can make them from recycled trees...



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[Old Cruiser]

Sure and once he tacks on his R & D and all the manufacturing tooling costs- it will be $1000...

[Dave(man)]

in all seriousness tho.....this sh!t drives me crazy i just moved from Kalifornia the land which would love to end offroading all together (even has removed pack stations from a National Forest)....has severely restricted Oceano Dunes (Pismo) .....damn it come on don't start out here too!