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23hiker
Registered: 07/20/09
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    07/21/09 at 12:09 AM
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So how about the presentation that was given at the Village Board meeting last month by a friend or member of the Nature Sanctuary Society of W.N.Y. where he is reported in the Gowanda Pennysaver to have stated the real reason why the new DEC Zoar Valley Wilderness Preservation Plans rules were put in place a few years ago- to keep people out of the 'wilderness' and return it to its' pristine state.  I have heard that there is a similar movement by the Nature folks in regards to a popular creek over in Chatauqua County somewhere along the lake I believe.  It's been awhile since I heard about this wilderness movement being led by some environmental organizations under a plan promoted by the United Nations that seeks to make large sections of mountainous areas and areas adjacent to forest parks and other areas offlimits to the public. 

Bill Cain gave the presentation and some of his comments go a long way to confirm what I suspected a few years ago when I read some of the draft plans that were being posted. 

I wonder how real the concern that the Wilderness Society professses for the Gowanda Fire Dept. over the rescue situations they have faced over the years really is?  Didn't the fire dept. purchase a bunch of equipment a few years ago specifically for dealing with some of these types of situations? 

Why did that poor group of hikers and their dogs hike over to the rockfall area where they got stranded last year anyway- you can't get there unless you are really trying?  The shoreline adjacent to it is not very wide and the water is over waist deep to cross over to it when it is low water swimming conditions.  If you were coming back downstream and couldn't wade across upstream of the rocks at the rapids where it is usually only a little over knee deep in the summer, and if you had made your way down to the rocks and figured out it was impassable why wouldn't you go back upstream to the large wooded area where you could go all the way over to and up the hillside if the water actually threatened you there.  I know they said the water level was rising but I was a little suspicious of this event when it happened and made the news.

I could be wrong.  But I remain highly suspicious.         
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