| Cow-Coddling Lobby Could Keep
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| The next time you want to explore
America's national forests, which citizen tax dollars purchase and
maintain - a cowpoke might just roll up in a beat-up truck sporting
the requisite loaded gun rack in the rear window, and tell you not so
politely to hightail it off "his" or "her" property. This order will
be legal and enforceable, if proposed legislation currently before the
US Congress doesn't receive a quick edit.
Senator Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico), author of the proposed Public Rangelands Act, claims he will eliminate language in the bill that could allow ranchers to bar recreational users, including mountain bikers, from using public lands. Domenici has yet to make good on his promise, however. Story by Jackson Lynch | |||
| What's Next?
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| An outbreak of common sense that swept through the western United
States this summer has some cyclists fearing global sanity could be
next.
In California, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is putting up more than half a million dollars for two new bikeways, nine miles of bike lanes, and a bicyclist hotline in San Francisco. Further north, an appellate court ruling in Oregon will make bike transportation a priority, despite state budget restrictions. The court directed Oregon to spend no less than one percent of federal highway monies on improvements for bicyclists. Hawaii must be watching its neighbors, because it will also require the installation of bike facilities whenever a road is built or improved. The Aloha state, however, hasn't mandated any minimum spending requirements. Story by Josh Wilson | |||
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