Actually Dick, I think you may have read more into that than what I wrote.
I have been careful to not call for the abolishment of any type of vehicle or any official segregating of anything.
In my first post, I said “There is nothing anyone can do about the expense except for setting
personal limits” (emphasis mine), and ended with “It is an
individual choice in where you go and what you do, and I don't see an easy answer other than
individuals deciding what they really want from their off-roading experience and who they want to share it with” (emphassi mine).
Finally, in post #42 I had to explain myself yet again, and took the opportunity to try and clarify myself once and for all… “I never said I felt I had the power to determine who & how people are allowed to enjoy themselves.”
From the outset, my two points were that:
1. Ignorant people cause damage, and the larger the vehicle they operate the greater the damage that can be caused.
2. The only way I know how to get the message across while preserving my same rights to the property is to be more selective in where and with whom I wheel, and avoiding events that seem to attract that contingent I’d rather not wheel with.
I do judge people. I judge whether their recreational use of our shared property fits with my desired use of the same. If it doesn’t, I strike off on my own at my own inconvenience. The side benefit of fleeing the “party crashers” is that self-reliant, expeditionary wheeling has given me some of the best off-road experiences I’ve
ever had.
I just hope that the large scale abuses from the monster buggy "irrational exuberance" do not cause the closure the recreation areas I’ve been finding refuge in.