Joe, you see something in the proposed management plan I don't. Angling and hunting are still being allowed and there are no plans to eliminate them. Don't try to change the subject in the ATV discussion by creating conspiracy theories that don't exist.
Quantifying the impact of sedimentation from trails is not hard. In the Castle there are roughly 1,823 km of trails which translates into 64 million kilograms of sediment annually. That's the equivalent of 4,000 tandem dump trucks going in to the Castle system each year and this is compacting gravel beds cutthroat and bull trout use to spawn. The relationship between linear disturbance, sedimentation, and their negative impact to fish has been researched and is well understood.
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