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Outdoor Life

SarahD

(1,732 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2024, 05:26 PM Apr 2024

I smell a rat. Or a skunk. Or a lobbyist. [View all]

This is a puff piece extolling the virtues of outdoor recreation legislation. The article is suspiciously short on specifics, but it appears intended to pave the way for more guides and commercial outfitters leading paying clients into the wilderness on public lands. Pay to play is the American way.
https://wyofile.com/federal-outdoor-rec-bill-that-protects-wilderness-climbing-advances/

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I smell a rat. Or a skunk. Or a lobbyist. [View all] SarahD Apr 2024 OP

To me this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. If you want to climb then climb without walkingman Apr 2024 #1

Climbers set the anchors , they just don't want it to be illegal questionseverything Apr 2024 #2

Wilderness should be unbolted. SarahD Apr 2024 #4

For you Romneyites who may be lurking they are describing a "park". GreenWave Apr 2024 #3