[Vision2020] Moscow Mountain Preserve

[Bill London]

We now have an opportunity to protect a unique 300 acre preserve on Moscow Mountain that includes a wonderful grove of ancient cedar trees, the glorious viewpoint of on the rocky top of East Moscow Mountain, and the forestland between those two sites.  The Nature Conservancy lease expires this year, and we need to preserve this land -- as a state park or a county park -- for perpetuity.

Besides providing all of us, and our children, with a great destination, designating this land as a park will help us solve some of the most difficult outdoor recreation issues on the mountain.  This new park will focus both education and enforcement on the twin problems of motorized eco-destruction and access.

Motorized land-destroying mud-boggers and ATV drivers are ravaging Moscow Mountain, and the rest of the American West.  These machines chew trails into eroding ruts, and kill wildlife, trees and streams.  We have all seen meadows and creeks churned to moonscapes because of these machines and their un-thinking drivers.  Through this new park on Moscow Mountain, maybe we can provide enough enforcement and education to stop this destruction.

In addition, with a park there near the top of the mountain, perhaps we will find the resources to resolve the access issue.  If the interest in visiting the new park increases, we will fix and maintain the road system to make it possible for everyone to enjoy both the ride and the destination.

We need to preserve this 300 acre as a public park. Please help this effort.  For more information, see http://www.pcei.org/mm_cedars.htm

Bill London, Moscow
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