To me, the lawsuits and pressure brought to land management agencies to "protect us from ourselves" is just another reflection of an urbanizing society. Urbanites want to know that wild places exist, but they want those places treated like manicured parks they are accustomed to.
When their expectations are not met and they pull some stupid stunt that proves Darwin's theories, their families get lawyered up, and the land agency get sued because they did not remove every foreseeable risk some knothead might be exposed to and the chucklehead ended up getting hurt.
I don't blame the agency. I blame society for being a bunch of candy asses. A society that wants to make a story out of people they don't like, say loggers or ranchers, as being out to "Tame the wild" and they do so in a negative context.
Yet, these same urbanites expect land agencies to "tame the land" for them so they and their lap dog don't encounter a tick along the trail. It is wild land. If you can't handle that, keep your pansy ass at home on the couch, walk your designer dog down along the concrete ditch, and feed the domesticated ducks some more popcorm.
Open the damned forest and let the knot heads get hurt. There are too many of the dumb asses as it is. If a few of them get scared and never want to come back, we and the forests are better off as a result.
Rant over. Just tired of stupid society pressures, mostly urbanite pressures, putting the squeeze on agencies and then the agencies taking the hit for what the courts tell them to do.
Good one!
