Are our policies based on acid flashes?
More:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/11/30/5424/
How the [bleep] can something that has been actively worked for 100 years be "returned" to "wilderness"?
As a Jeeper and off-roader, we went through this same nonsense (and lost) years ago when the Clinton administration decided to declare huge tracts of Federal land "wilderness." Of course, it
wasn't wilderness. There were roads on and through most of it, and infrastructure such as drainage improvements. No problem for the feral .gov, though -- they just erased the little lines designating "road" from their maps. PRESTO! Instant "wilderness."
Of course, this overlooks the minor problem that, since what used to be roads are now not roads, they won't be maintained and the drainage system won't be maintained, which means the roads (mostly gravel) will wash out and cause significant environmental damage that would have been avoided if they had left the roads as "roads" and allowed Jeepers to use (and maintain) them.