Obama signs Wilderness Bill - 2 million acres confiscated by the gov't!

[MountainDon]

Interesting that you picked on that...  We wish to "round up" a quantity of stone for the cabin. We have some on our land, but I would like more.


I also noted that in the original document sheep grazing was only to be permitted in the states of Oregon and Washington. Today sheep are grazed in parts of some Colorado forests. It's interesting to watch the sheep herders dogs work. The herder was from the Basque country of Spain. Not a word of English and the dogs barked with an accent. 

[StinkerBell]

I bet you thought I was making this Act up when I couldn't recall the name. I bet you thought I was looney!

[MountainDon]

I had never heard of that act, but thought it probable there was one. There is another old act that has been helpful in keeping some old trails and roads open on some public lands.
http://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/trails/rs2477/
http://www.rs2477roads.com/

And yes you are looney...




... and a good sport 

[pagan]

Don,

My wife works with a guy who built a small cabin in a state park. Nobody could figure out why he would bring so much stuff to work in his car. One day she asked him and he told her where he lived. We'd hiked there and knew it was a state park. He went on to explain that he was squatting on federal land and could be arrested if he got caught so always took his personal belongings with him when he left the cabin. A few months later she saw him sleeping in his car. He told her one day he was walking up one of the many paths he used to get to his cabin and saw a man dressed in camouflage and holding a machine gun standing near the path. While making his way back to his car he was approached by two men similarly dressed and armed. They questioned him about what he was doing there and after convincing them he was a hiker they allowed him to leave.

He thought it was wonderful that he was living for free deep in the woods, that is until he was discovered.

[MountainDon]

That's sort of funny. He had helped himself to a chunk of free land to live on; yet he didn't feel free as he felt he had to carry all his belongings around in his car like a homeless person.

There may be some areas in the west where you could still manage to live "free" on federal or state land. The marijuana growers do it all the time. However, if you make daily trips in and out there will soon be a very visible path.

[pagan]

I think that's why he had multiple paths to his cabin. He knew what he was doing and that it was illegal. Also his cabin was deep in the park and not even close to any main hiking trails, I think he said it took around an hour to hike in, so he's got no clue how they found his cabin. I think it was a routine helicopter drug flight that spotted it.