your paint brush is just as large and woefully handled as Micks is. pitiful...
Believe it or not, it means nothing to me.
I am from ETN, and still consider it "home". The ETN destructive attitude is nothing new. I saw it growing up, and I certainly saw it as an officer up there on both private and forest service land. It was a fairly frequent happening.
I probably saw my first instance of it as a teenager (probably 1970). An older friend had secured permission for us to duck hunt up on the Lick Creek bottoms. There were a bunch of ducks dry feeding in some of the farmer's fields. We went in one afternoon and had a fun hunt that was pretty successful by ETN standards. A few days later we went back and killed some more mallards.
When we came out, we were met by the farmer at our vehicles and were told in no uncertain terms that there would be no more hunting on his farm. In the days between our first and second hunt, someone had gone in and shot out the windows on his combine. He knew we had nothing to do with that, but, he was not going to let anyone on his property from that point on.
So, sorry if my "paint brush" offends you. I certainly NEVER said it covers the majority of the good folks up there that I grew up with. But, it you don't think that attitude is there, you either haven't lived in ETN very long or you have your head in the sand.
