Matt Perkins
11-19-2007, 03:00 PM
One of the items that we discussed at last week's meeting of the Washington Climbers Coalition was the ongoing struggle between those persons in the environmental community who view public lands and in particular wilderness areas as a place where recreational should be extremely restricted or even excluded because human presence is inherently harmful and those who believe that human recreation is one of the important purposes for the preservation of wild places.
Today's Post Intelligencer has an article by Joel Connelly on this very topic. He portrays it as largely a "democrat vs republican" issue, but expresses ideas along the lines of what we discussed last week:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/340182_joel19.html
Today's Post Intelligencer has an article by Joel Connelly on this very topic. He portrays it as largely a "democrat vs republican" issue, but expresses ideas along the lines of what we discussed last week:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/340182_joel19.html