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- From: mks@gvgspd.gvg.tek.com (Mark Sanders)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Open season on runners (jogger is killed)
- Message-ID: <mks-181192091715@b4gdy02.gvg.tek.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:48:52 GMT
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- Organization: Grass Valley Group
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- Living in the beautiful Sierra foothills, I've become a lover of the
- wilderness trek, be it running, hiking or on bike. My only fears
- have been intoxicated hunters (I've seen many in CA.), kids out
- 'shooting' and marijuana farmers protecting their crop. I am
- a believer in the right to bear arms, but having had bullets fly
- in my direction more than once, I've grown sceptical. I try to
- dress as a non-target and I keep out of the woods for the first
- 2 weeks of deer season, but I am always on alert.
-
- Any combination of kids, alcohol and guns is bad. Had Mr. Cook
- been drinking before he shot the jogger? It wasn't in our news
- at all. Hunting is not bad. I have responsible friends who
- depend on their hunting to help subsidize their budgets (for the
- skeptics, they don't have fancy guns, plan big hunting trips or
- spend much money at all to hunt). Most of the accidents that I
- have heard of was by 'party' hunters. I've camped by hunters
- who have played cards and drank most of the night, slept till
- noon, then blasted the hell out of the forest in the afternoons.
- During the first week of deer season, no animal (including human)
- is safe in the forest.
-
- Our vast forest lands are the best places in the world to run.
- Runners, hikers, bikers, horsepeople and yes, hunters, should be
- able to enjoy them. I actually get madder at anyone who harms
- the forest by littering, tearing up trails, or any other
- irresponsible act. Anybody how harms any creature or the land
- through irresponsible acts should be held accountable, and in
- a major way. Some of my favorite trails went up in smoke this
- last summer because of human carelessness. This winter, the
- trails in these burned out areas will erode. However, there
- are runners, hikers, bikers, horsepeople and even hunters
- who care (as well as my scout troop) out working on the trails,
- and cleaning up the mess. Runners cannot change society, but
- our good example can raise the awareness of those who follow.
-
- Mark Sanders the Grass Valley Group Sierra Slowpokes
- mks@gvgspd.gvg.tek.com ph: 916-478-3632 Running Club
-