06-20-2007, 11:51 PM
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Hummer Deity
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: In the basement of the Alamo
Posts: 10,855
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Re: Some closures are O.K.
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Originally Posted by HummBebe
The most important thing like you say is to help educate, donate to organization like Blue Ribbon Coalition and United Four Wheel Drive Assoiation, and to give back, if you spend time wheeling the trail, you should also spend time fixing it.
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I don't think Blue Ribbon needs funding.
They really aren't the off-road enthusiast small timers they purport to be.
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In addition to membership fees, funding has historically come from timber, mining, petroleum, and motorized recreation industries. Funders have included the Alaska Forestry Association, American Forest and Paper Association, American Petroleum Institute, Boise Cascade, Battle Mountain Gold, Chevron, Colorado Mining Association, Crown Butte Mines, Exxon, Honda (US), Idaho Mining Association, Louisiana Pacific, Marathon Oil, Polaris, Potlach Corp, Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas, Ski-Doo, Suzuki, and Yamaha. (Blue Ribbon Magazine 5/1997)
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http://www.commondreams.org/news2000/0620-06.htm
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=18
http://lowbagger.org/blueribbon.html
But yea, lots of your favorite trails have dates and weekends dedicated to picking up and maintaining trails. You still get to drive them, you just meet a lot of cool people and pick up ignorant jerks trash, it feels good.
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