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AverageOldGuy

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10. How about we organize some other groups?
Tue Jun 24, 2025, 02:05 PM
Tuesday

National forests are interesting places. I won't go into details, but, in many areas national forests are used for recreation -- hiking, camping, 4-wheeling, fishing, and hunting. There is lumbering in some national forests with timber companies cutting trees.

I hunt, though not as much as I did years ago. My Mississippi Delta redneck cousin hunts and fishes for anything that moves. I would visit him each fall. We would hunt quail and pheasant on Delta farmland; hunt deer and wild hogs in the land along the Mississippi River.

Then every third year we would hunt national forests in E TN or W NC -- Joyce Kilmer, Pisgah, and Cherokee -- for deer and wild hogs.

If the national forests are sold you can bet that logging, mining, and "housing development" (rural McMansions that only Musk can afford) will take over, then the camping, hiking, fishing, and hunting is done for.

We need to shout this fact from the rooftops. Get this matter before local hiking, camping, hunting, etc., groups. Get the NRA involved -- believe it or not, hunters are conservationists where forest land is concerned.

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