Open ride WE Rock Aetna Lease Jan. 28th FREE

chickenfarmer · Jan 21, 2012

Please come out and support the fight to keep Aetna Mtn open for riding by showing up and signing the petition and riding on Saturday January 28th 2012. The TWRA is planning to shut the mountain down on March 12th. We need all the signatures we can get. If you love this sport and want to keep our lands open for riding please come out next Saturday January 28th. Thanks

ABrown · Jan 21, 2012

Everybody that can needs to come and bring as many people as you can find! This is not a rumor its for real! So everybody come out and keep aetna mtn open.

Dwalk · Jan 21, 2012

we're in

stanthaman · Jan 21, 2012

My crew is in ya'll spread the word!

RioYJ · Jan 21, 2012

Most of our rigs are down but gonna try to get a group of folks up to come throw down some signitures and hopefuly keep this place open for when they are back in action!

jgreen · Jan 22, 2012

how do we get there

trucker · Jan 22, 2012

jgreen said:
how do we get there

There are directions in the ride section for those whom have never been to the lease.

TacomaJD · Jan 22, 2012

What exactly is the TWRA or whatever? And where do they live? skully

xjmarc · Jan 22, 2012

Tennessee Wildlife Resourse Agency. They are the ones who get the tax money on all off hwy vehicles in TN and are supposed to do something for the OHV community with it but just sit on it. They are also the game wardons and people who set bag limits and such. Guessing Mr. Stein has them in his back pocket as well.

xjmarc · Jan 22, 2012

And I'll be there with as many as I can scrape up too.

ridered3 · Jan 22, 2012

Saw the link to the online petition posted over on Pirate. Here it is:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/kee...ain-tennessee/

TBItoy · Jan 22, 2012

ridered3 said:
Saw the link to the online petition posted over on Pirate. Here it is:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/kee...ain-tennessee/

petition signed,

and a lenghty letter written, explaining how closing legal year round access to aetna mtn to offroaders will lead to the area becoming a meth and marijuana haven for the criminals that will continue to access the area.

TacomaJD · Jan 22, 2012

So they can even shut down all riding at Aetna, even for the ones that are in the WeRock club paying yearly dues?

TBItoy · Jan 22, 2012

TacomaJD said:
So they can even shut down all riding at Aetna, even for the ones that are in the WeRock club paying yearly dues?

Technically, the WeRock club can still access their leased property. i'm not sure of the acreage of it, but my understanding is that is isn't that large, and generally used as an access point/secure parking area for Aetna Mtn public lands.

BMan · Jan 23, 2012

TBItoy said:
petition signed,

and a lenghty letter written, explaining how closing legal year round access to aetna mtn to offroaders will lead to the area becoming a meth and marijuana haven for the criminals that will continue to access the area.

Signed

Re=posting link since not using url tags munges/messes it up:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/keep-off-roading-alive-on-aetna-mountain-tennessee/

Everyone in household signed.....posted up on other sites and facebook. :****:

showtime33 · Jan 23, 2012

Signed the petition, signature 788......come on people. SIGN UP, We need to stand some ground before we don't have any left to stand on. One man once said the only thing possible for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

BMan · Jan 23, 2012

BTW it tracks your entry via a cookies named care.com and thepetitionsite.com (cache, Plug-ins, Local storage) so if you dump the browser cookie data or just remove these cookies other family members can sign it if another computer or browser isn't available.

TOOTHLESSMOONSHINER · Jan 23, 2012

If we don't do something about this before long we will not have a place to ride. Does anyone have any idea on how many signitures you need for this to happen?

BMan · Jan 23, 2012

TOOTHLESSMOONSHINER said:
If we don't do something about this before long we will not have a place to ride. Does anyone have any idea on how many signitures you need for this to happen?

Petition side says; "Signature goal: 50,000". I'm not sure if this is the goal for just the site or the total sigs needed though. :dunno: