To get a handle on the off-highway vehicles (OHV) that are tearing up our public lands, the Mount Hood National Forest (MHNF) has embarked on a plan to concentrate them in just a few areas, presumably to reduce “conflicts” with other forest visitors. The OHVs consist of 4-wheel ATVs, dirt bikes and 4×4 jeeps and [...]
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Off-Highway Vehicles
September 30, 2009Unfinished work at Tumala
January 2, 2009Most of us grew up using the word “squaw” as the counterpoint to “brave” in our one-dimensional, Hollywood version of Indian culture. But historians and Native Americans always knew this word to be derogatory and offensive in its original use, so the current national efforts to remove “squaw” from maps and places is long overdue. [...]
