When Yosemite NP was first created, Congress did not want it to have roads. The only reason roads were built was because of the lobbying of the Sierra Club.
Now the Sierra Club wants to take out the roads. Apparently they have changed their mind. I liked the old Sierra Club better, when their goal was to increase public access to public lands.
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We're having a heck of a time here in North Carolina with Audubon Society and Defenders of Wildlife right now. They've sued the NPS and just this week shut down three of the most popular places in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreation Area to vehicles and pedestrians.
They've used the ESA to shut down beaches for birds that are not on the Endangered list. We can't get a DC politician to lift a finger to help. Even in an election year.
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Back in the 50's and 60's the Sierra Club was one of the biggest abusers of National Forest Wildernesses. The Club sponsored "Trail Rides in the Wilderness" in many of the western wilderness areas. On these trips they would bring in 50-100 people, each on their own horse, to visit the "Wilderness" for a week. To support this operation they would also bring along another 50+ trailhands (plus additional riding and pack horses) to make camp, cook, and take care of the horses. They would camp near a large wilderness meadow, graze the animals in the meadow, and when they left there wasn't a single blade of green grass....just a big dust hole. Try to do that today and see what happens.
The Sierra Club is an elitist group that wants to lock up public land for their own private use.
It's not a paramilitary organization by any stretch of the imagination, but Rob 'The General' Alderman is currently one of the leaders in the fight against the enviro-nuts' efforts to convert Hatteras Island and Ocracoke Island into wildlife refuges.
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It's called the Hatteras Island Fishing Militia. The website is 
