My problem with SUWA is it uses a one size fits all prescription, namely Wilderness designation. Nothing else will do. When I first heard of them they were advocating for 3.5 million acres. Every few years it has increased to where it is now shy of ten million acres. Think they'll stop there?
As for the rich maybe that comes about because they are wealthy. From wikipedia:
In the late 1990s, SUWA began building a large endowment from grants. The
Pew Charitable Trusts and the Wyss Foundation were particularly generous. As of 2004, SUWA had amassed almost $5 million. Swiss-born billionaire
Hansjorg Wyss joined the board of SUWA in 1996 and later financed a new $1.4 million Salt Lake City headquarters. Though SUWA has been able raise large sums of money over the last decade its membership numbers have declined 30% from a high of 20,000 to 14,000
[6] Still, SUWA maintains that 70 percent of their funding comes from membership dues and donations, and roughly 80 percent of the organization's income is spent on program work.
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Their contempt of OHV's is obvious in the use of the pejorative term ORV over and over.
I really wish people would actually learn something about the organizations they support. My mom didn't understand why I don't support the Sierra Club. So I asked her "mom, do you know their position on logging?". She was sure they for less and well done logging. "Sorry mom, they are for zero logging, none at all". Mom did you know they want to have OHV's confined to designated OHV parks and not allowed in the forests?. You know she didn't, not many people actually know their official positions on many subjects. Its on their website but you have to dig real deep to find them (btw they have hundreds of official positons, interesting reading).
Okay, thats all I'm going to say on the subject of advocacy groups. I really do want to stay civil and make this thing work.
