I fully appreciate your approach and wouldn't expect any land owner to give carte Blanche access to the public. My point is it's not your responsibility but rather the land's governing body it seems to me.
I surely agree with you!
All that land had plenty of access for over 100 years.
Then the USFS closed two roads used to access it.
They KNEW it was going to severely limit access.
They don't WANT you going in there. They accept that a few "back country hunters" will walk or pack in, but by and large, the area is closed to the public.
That philosophy of road closure has caught on like wildfire with the new management philosophies more recent management with USFS & BLM have.
rockinb,
Seems you know what's going on there,
May I ask if you know the "official" reason for the closing of those roads?
Were they failing and impacting fish habitat?
Mostly unused except in hunting season and the forest/blm district had no money in the budget for maintenance?
Generally, the forest/blm has public input on these type of things, at least a comment period. Do you know if they did and what the majority of the comments related to?
If they (NFS/BLM) don't want people in there, they usually have a reason.
Thanks,
Geno
