Chat
This is Charlie Jennings (NAPgA President), checking in -
Thanks to all of you who have contributed money and time to NAPgA. NAPgA exists to help YOU enjoy the wilderness and to keep the trails open.
What does the future hold? Well, I believe that the judge will be requiring the Forest Service to conference with NAPgA to work out a solution. Whether that be a settlement, a compromise, I don't know at this point. The Court knows that the Shoshone Forest Plan was put together with documents that were tainted, and they didn't look too kindly on that. I sincerely hope that we can work something out, such as them requiring a health certificate that requires MOVI tested negative packgoats, allowing us to have a right-of-way corridor through the Bighorn Sheep habitat, and pertaining to the Whiskey Mountain area of the Shoshone NF, perhaps require us to camp outside the critical area, which is possible up there. NAPgA cares about Bighorn Sheep, but an all-out BAN bothers me for a number of reasons so I do not believe that is the answer. Government officials seem to get carried away with the word BAN, like a blank check or something.
What can the general membership do at this time. Donate $$ and recruit members. There is strength in numbers. We always need to have a pile of cash in hand to defend our rights to the wilderness. We have the very finest Attorney in the nation when it comes to goats and bighorn sheep. The money allows us to have him help you and me put out fires across the country. National Forests all over want to close their boundaries to goats.
Lots of work to do, but it was really sweet to savor a victory this week. Lots of us spent an enormous amount of time on this, hoping and praying that we'd win this time around.
Happy packing!
Charlie Jennings
Thanks to all of you who have contributed money and time to NAPgA. NAPgA exists to help YOU enjoy the wilderness and to keep the trails open.
What does the future hold? Well, I believe that the judge will be requiring the Forest Service to conference with NAPgA to work out a solution. Whether that be a settlement, a compromise, I don't know at this point. The Court knows that the Shoshone Forest Plan was put together with documents that were tainted, and they didn't look too kindly on that. I sincerely hope that we can work something out, such as them requiring a health certificate that requires MOVI tested negative packgoats, allowing us to have a right-of-way corridor through the Bighorn Sheep habitat, and pertaining to the Whiskey Mountain area of the Shoshone NF, perhaps require us to camp outside the critical area, which is possible up there. NAPgA cares about Bighorn Sheep, but an all-out BAN bothers me for a number of reasons so I do not believe that is the answer. Government officials seem to get carried away with the word BAN, like a blank check or something.
What can the general membership do at this time. Donate $$ and recruit members. There is strength in numbers. We always need to have a pile of cash in hand to defend our rights to the wilderness. We have the very finest Attorney in the nation when it comes to goats and bighorn sheep. The money allows us to have him help you and me put out fires across the country. National Forests all over want to close their boundaries to goats.
Lots of work to do, but it was really sweet to savor a victory this week. Lots of us spent an enormous amount of time on this, hoping and praying that we'd win this time around.
Happy packing!
Charlie Jennings