Birdman recently visited Telluride Colorado on a gorgeous sunny day, with a stop at Orvis Hot Springs. During his three day stay in the ski town of Telluride, an insight of massive proportions, struck Birdman as he rolled over Dallas Divide, looking at the wide expanse of the Sneffles Range. The miles and miles of high country timber, creeks, valleys, wildlife, endless hiking and joy, above the Ralph Lauren Ranch is all totally free of charge to gain access.
Ralph Lauren paid mega millions for his pasture land below, the best land is above all over the west, a great majority of it set aside by Teddy Roosevelt a long time ago. Birdman knew this from 35 years of hiking the high country, but it came back with the impact of lightning striking close by. An Austrian friend, who had spent time with Birdman, hunting and hiking the high country, said, "In Austria you would have to pay a few hundred thousand a year to do what eveyone living in Telluride can do for nothing, hike the majestic high country, with no permission and payment to anyone. In Austria the descendants of the kings own all of the best land, nothing can be bought or hiked on.
Three years living in Colorado Springs and Denver also has reaffirmed this fact. No matter how wealthy you are in a city, you must still deal with the traffic gridlock, inferior air to breathe, lack of wildlife, the constant cacophony of sound generated by sirens and cars and people exercising their right of freedom of speech, talking constant nonsense on cell phones.
Even the libraries and book stores are noisy havens of crying babies, people on cell phones, and loud speakers announcing nonsense every five minutes. A quiet spot in America has become priceless.
The poorest worker living in a town on the Western Slope of Colorado, with quick access to the National Forest, can live like a King, and enjoy his birthright, free access to public land, 750 million acres of it.
The Trust For Public Land is buying up millions of acres of mining claims and inholdings, and selling it back to the US Government. At one time in the nation, almost 950 million acres of high country public land existed. Now is the time to gain more, and buy it back from the old miners, inholdings, and developers with the wrong intentions.
We must preserve this legacy for the children of the future. The genius of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt allows us to enjoy some of the most pristine land in the world, the high country of the western US. Leave the city for a day, take a long hike on National Forest Land and you will see what I mean.
It is all free, and it is wild, and it is beautiful, and it allows for the experience of complete and total Joy.
Ralph Lauren paid mega millions for his pasture land below, the best land is above all over the west, a great majority of it set aside by Teddy Roosevelt a long time ago. Birdman knew this from 35 years of hiking the high country, but it came back with the impact of lightning striking close by. An Austrian friend, who had spent time with Birdman, hunting and hiking the high country, said, "In Austria you would have to pay a few hundred thousand a year to do what eveyone living in Telluride can do for nothing, hike the majestic high country, with no permission and payment to anyone. In Austria the descendants of the kings own all of the best land, nothing can be bought or hiked on.
Three years living in Colorado Springs and Denver also has reaffirmed this fact. No matter how wealthy you are in a city, you must still deal with the traffic gridlock, inferior air to breathe, lack of wildlife, the constant cacophony of sound generated by sirens and cars and people exercising their right of freedom of speech, talking constant nonsense on cell phones.
Even the libraries and book stores are noisy havens of crying babies, people on cell phones, and loud speakers announcing nonsense every five minutes. A quiet spot in America has become priceless.
The poorest worker living in a town on the Western Slope of Colorado, with quick access to the National Forest, can live like a King, and enjoy his birthright, free access to public land, 750 million acres of it.
The Trust For Public Land is buying up millions of acres of mining claims and inholdings, and selling it back to the US Government. At one time in the nation, almost 950 million acres of high country public land existed. Now is the time to gain more, and buy it back from the old miners, inholdings, and developers with the wrong intentions.
We must preserve this legacy for the children of the future. The genius of John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt allows us to enjoy some of the most pristine land in the world, the high country of the western US. Leave the city for a day, take a long hike on National Forest Land and you will see what I mean.
It is all free, and it is wild, and it is beautiful, and it allows for the experience of complete and total Joy.
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