Comment by WillAdams
14 days ago
The U.S. needs similar crossings for all the regions separated by the Interstate system, and somewhere near the center of each region so created, a large wilderness preserve which has roads removed:
14 days ago
The U.S. needs similar crossings for all the regions separated by the Interstate system, and somewhere near the center of each region so created, a large wilderness preserve which has roads removed:
While I agree with the sentiment --that couple's methods leave something to be desired.
The article makes it sound like they took a motor boat into a wilderness preserve? Motor vehicles are explicitly not allowed in those areas.
Also excluding dirt roads is a pretty bad criteria. A lot of GIS marked 'dirt roads' are natural animal trails or washes that have been around for hundreds/thousands of years.
The National Parks Service allows it:
While motorboats are permitted to operate in the marine environment, their presence can influence the wilderness setting.
https://www.nps.gov/ever/wilderness.htm
That seems specific to the Everglades wilderness.
US doesn’t even have this for humans to cross at regular intervals on all freeways.
It has them wherever the local community decides that they are important enough to implement.
Well when the tyrrany of those with a voice in local politics has a say so of course. Not many people put a voice to 15 year olds who might want to walk to another 15 year olds house for once. Maybe that is why all the youth tend to move out of these sorts of places over time and average age marches up in the decades after the initial sell off of the then new tracts to new families.
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