Topo Traveler; I thought it would be interesting to go over the last empty, inaccessible, and wild places left in the lower 48 of the United States. I found and used google earth to image all of these regions, using google earth studio. WATCH
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Roadless classification is often a joke. Activists on both sides of the protected wilderness argument use the roadless classification process as a weapon. Strictly speaking. To declare an area as wilderness, there can be no existing roads. What constitutes a road is extremely subjective and will vary between judicial districts and from one federal administration and another.
It’s pretty safe to say that, at least here in the West, most wilderness areas have extensive networks of “jeep trails”, of varying quality, that were used by ranchers, loggers, miners/prospectors, hunters, fishermen and people just out boondocking.
Democrats have a propensity, common among socialists worldwide, to set aside vast swaths of territory as wilderness, national monuments and national parks. It’s part of the colonialist attitude they have toward flyover country, which the globalist Left would like to see depopulated (Agenda 21). Just like the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, “This Land Is Your Land, This Land is My Land” is not in the Constitution or the United States Code, though they both may appear in the Federal Register and various court decisions…because many bureaucrats and judges don’t value the Constitution.
I am not opposed to protected areas or even the withdrawal of previous access to some very specific locations, but this habit of marking out millions of acres at a time has to be stopped, and in many cases, reversed.
In truth, special status, particularly monument or park status, is the kiss of death to the unfortunate area that receives that status, as it suddenly is on the radar for people, a lot of very stupid people, who would not have otherwise known about it. Bears Ears is a perfect example.
^^^ Interesting. I think Obungo designated 5 million acres to wilderness in his first term.
The US government gave me all the traveling experiences I needed or wanted for life. And God and fate got me back somewhat alive. I’m good. I now have my National Geographic subscription and the internet to keep my travels safe and blood free.
AC Parker: You forgot to include “Sacred sites of Native Americans” to your list.
The perfect example of laying waste to good land is the “Inner Cities”.
RADIOATIONMAN/HAM/CB Bill Clinton did the same. Carter made large areas of Alaska wilderness.