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Online Tellico Rally!!! - May 7th
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<blockquote data-quote="McCracken" data-source="post: 35194" data-attributes="member: 262"><p><strong>Re: Online Tellico Rally!!! </strong></p><p></p><p>Hey everyone just wanted to stop in with another update. We now have the press release ready for distribution! Please take time to spread this to everyone that you think would benefit. This includes <strong>newspapers, tv, radio, USFS employees, state OHV boards, politicians, businesses, etc.</strong></p><p></p><p>I also have some other news. We now have recruited vendors that are supporting this effort. I will be releasing these names and items donated in the thread on pirate right now! Come check out who has stepped up to support our cause and thank them every chance you can get. Some of this stuff is valued over $650!!!! </p><p></p><p>Here is the press release:</p><p></p><p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p><p></p><p>Contacts:</p><p>Nick McCracken, Rally organizer </p><p>E-mail: orangecherokee@yahoo.com</p><p></p><p>Kurt Schneider, Pirate4x4.com</p><p>E-mail: kurtuleas@pirate4x4.com</p><p></p><p>El Dorado County: April 18th, 2008</p><p></p><p></p><p>VIRTUAL ONLINE RALLY FOR UPPER TELLICO OHV AREA</p><p>Pirate4x4.com builds on a successful rally format to protest more route closures</p><p></p><p>After an extremely successful virtual rally for Johnson Valley and the world renowned Hammers rock crawling trails in California, Pirate4x4.com members are shifting their focus to the east coast and are once again gathering for a massive virtual rally to save the Upper Tellico OHV Park in North Carolina. On Wednesday May7th, 2008, Pirate4x4.com, a leading website for the OHV community, will hold this rally from 4 to 9 pm eastern standard time.</p><p></p><p>In 2007, the Southern Environmental Law Center, in coalition with Trout Unlimited and P.E.E.R. (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) filed a notice of intent to sue the Untied Stated Forest Service, claiming it was in violation of the federal water pollution act. This coalition stated that the Upper Tellico OHV area was dumping sediment into nearby streams and destroying the habitat of local brook trout. In turn, the USFS closed a major portion of the Tellico trail system.</p><p></p><p>There are many arguments against closing this popular OHV area, and many organizations involved in keeping it open. Carla Boucher, the attorney for the United Four Wheel Drive Associations states, “United Four Wheel Drive Association (UFWDA), along with its partners Blue Ribbon Coalition and Southern Four Wheel Drive Association, are committed to taking all steps necessary to save our access at Tellico, including legislative, administrative, and legal action!†This rally will bolster the efforts made by these organizations in this battle by showing a large contingent of OHV users who back and support these organizations in their efforts.</p><p></p><p>Virtual rally participants will be asked to post their experiences, photos and history recreating with their families in the Tellico area along with their feelings and beliefs as to why the trail system should not be closed. Their comments will be posted and tracked in a bulletin board format, with a goal of creating a lasting record of how important this area is to a vast number of people in the OHV community. Tellico is one of the very few public areas on the east coast for OHV recreation. Interested parties are encouraged to participate in the rally and read the thread.</p><p></p><p>On March 12th 2008, Pirate4x4.com hosted a similar virtual rally for the world renowned OHV trail system in Johnson Valley, CA. That rally had nearly 1,500 posts from OHV enthusiasts all across the world in a four hour time span. Saved in time in order to create a lasting homage to the rally, to date the Hammers rally has been viewed by over 48,000 people.</p><p></p><p>The online rally thread may be found at the top of this forum: www.pirate4x4.com/landuse</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="McCracken, post: 35194, member: 262"] [b]Re: Online Tellico Rally!!! [/b] Hey everyone just wanted to stop in with another update. We now have the press release ready for distribution! Please take time to spread this to everyone that you think would benefit. This includes [b]newspapers, tv, radio, USFS employees, state OHV boards, politicians, businesses, etc.[/b] I also have some other news. We now have recruited vendors that are supporting this effort. I will be releasing these names and items donated in the thread on pirate right now! Come check out who has stepped up to support our cause and thank them every chance you can get. Some of this stuff is valued over $650!!!! Here is the press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Nick McCracken, Rally organizer E-mail: orangecherokee@yahoo.com Kurt Schneider, Pirate4x4.com E-mail: kurtuleas@pirate4x4.com El Dorado County: April 18th, 2008 VIRTUAL ONLINE RALLY FOR UPPER TELLICO OHV AREA Pirate4x4.com builds on a successful rally format to protest more route closures After an extremely successful virtual rally for Johnson Valley and the world renowned Hammers rock crawling trails in California, Pirate4x4.com members are shifting their focus to the east coast and are once again gathering for a massive virtual rally to save the Upper Tellico OHV Park in North Carolina. On Wednesday May7th, 2008, Pirate4x4.com, a leading website for the OHV community, will hold this rally from 4 to 9 pm eastern standard time. In 2007, the Southern Environmental Law Center, in coalition with Trout Unlimited and P.E.E.R. (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility) filed a notice of intent to sue the Untied Stated Forest Service, claiming it was in violation of the federal water pollution act. This coalition stated that the Upper Tellico OHV area was dumping sediment into nearby streams and destroying the habitat of local brook trout. In turn, the USFS closed a major portion of the Tellico trail system. There are many arguments against closing this popular OHV area, and many organizations involved in keeping it open. Carla Boucher, the attorney for the United Four Wheel Drive Associations states, “United Four Wheel Drive Association (UFWDA), along with its partners Blue Ribbon Coalition and Southern Four Wheel Drive Association, are committed to taking all steps necessary to save our access at Tellico, including legislative, administrative, and legal action!†This rally will bolster the efforts made by these organizations in this battle by showing a large contingent of OHV users who back and support these organizations in their efforts. Virtual rally participants will be asked to post their experiences, photos and history recreating with their families in the Tellico area along with their feelings and beliefs as to why the trail system should not be closed. Their comments will be posted and tracked in a bulletin board format, with a goal of creating a lasting record of how important this area is to a vast number of people in the OHV community. Tellico is one of the very few public areas on the east coast for OHV recreation. Interested parties are encouraged to participate in the rally and read the thread. On March 12th 2008, Pirate4x4.com hosted a similar virtual rally for the world renowned OHV trail system in Johnson Valley, CA. That rally had nearly 1,500 posts from OHV enthusiasts all across the world in a four hour time span. Saved in time in order to create a lasting homage to the rally, to date the Hammers rally has been viewed by over 48,000 people. The online rally thread may be found at the top of this forum: www.pirate4x4.com/landuse [/QUOTE]
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