[pct-l] Cabela's Rockets

[csiechert@hotmail.com (Carl Siechert)]

Dave:

All the woes that you attribute to stupid park managers are not the result
of stupidity, but of their inability (they're held accountable to elected
officials, who pander for votes) or unwillingness to make unpopular
decisions. If given _only_ the responsibility to protect the resource, I'm
sure they would have done a lot of things differently.

Now they have the huevos/hormones/whatever to impose an unpopular
requirement to carry canisters. It certainly seems a lot more effective than
the suggestions to pelt 'em (from Monte) or the whining without an
alternative (from you).

I don't like canisters. But they work. For the bears and for hikers.


----- Original Message -----
From: <CMountainDave@aol.com>
To: <reynolds@ilan.com>; <Montedodge@aol.com>;
<pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Cabela's Rockets


> So Tom, what are we going to do if bear canisters don't work? Give up and
> leave the woods for the bears? Yeah I know, you believe that canisters
WILL
> work, but given the long, long history of NPS and NFS incompetence (I'll
> rattle off a few to make my point - allowing Yellowstone to be
incinerated -
> ditto for Los Alamos, clear cutting, overcrowding in Yellowstone, Grand
> Canyon, Yosemite Etc Etc, polluting Crater Lake, shoving once outlawed
user
> fees down our throats, dumping problem bears into the back country for
> backpackers to deal with, the unnecessary mountain goat removal in Olympic
> National Park, carving car sized holes in Sequoias.) As far as who caused
the
> bear problem, the people in charge once created open garbage dumps to