Where to even begin?!? I am all for the preservation of nature, being both a former Boy Scout, and having 11 acres of untouched swamp and mud that I treasure more than anything, but this is just freaking sick...
Firstly, we evil 4X4ers do, for the most part, tread lightly. Yeah, when I am at my property, if I see a washed out mudhole in the 2 track, I am gonna hit it at full speed and get some good roostertails going. But I'll be the one right out there the next morning with a shovel correcting the reason it flooded in the first place. If I am not on my private property, I treat the land with respect... The hills and bumps are plenty for me, I don't need to be running over trees and flattening turtles to get my jeep jollies...
Secondly, I love this... It's evil to make a road to get somewhere, but it is perfectly acceptable to destroy the property of others by stabbing spikes through their tires, destroying roads, slashing sidewalls, planting caltrops, and creating some seriously hazardous situations... At 3:00 in the morning, off-roading in the middle of the woods, I do not expect to run over a spike in a logging road. Should this happen, I doubt very much that I would "harmlessly come to a stop", but rather probably be involved in a loss-of-control accident, resulting in injury for friends and family alike, nevermind myself, or vehicle... But that's OK, because we protected the leaves from being run over... If not for the maze of access roads that permeate the unpaved, I don't even want to think about how many people could die in the woods because nobody could get to them...
I hate hypocrites more than anything... Yeah, we slashed a $300.00 set of tires, but that's OK, because now they won't be out on a trail designed for them to be on... :evil: :evil: :evil: