I sent Buzz an email asking him to detail what exactly they have done to clean up Stekoa Creek. I'm still waiting for a response. Apparently he considers boaters, the lowest impact form of wilderness users, a problem but not the sewage and silt dumped down a major tributary of the Chattooga. They talk a lot about what they have done on Stekoa Creek, but monitoring pollution is not the same as getting it cleaned up.


I also asked Buzz to tell me what they have done to stop people from driving pickup trucks INTO the river at Earl's Ford. I'll never forget paddling past there and seeing litter floating downstream from one of those trucks that was backed in to the river.

These situations have gone on for years and the Chattooga Conservancy and Forest Service have done nothing about either. Instead the bureaucrats are wasting a million dollars to try to exclude a portion of public specifically identified as wilderness compatable in the WSRC and the Wilderness Act from a public resource.

They will lose in the end, I am confident. All the facts are on our side.