They're convinced that any regulation is just the first step on the path to total banishment of horses in Sky Lakes Wilderness. They needn't worry. Jake Crabtree is committed to continued horse use in the area and has established his credibility with horse users by demonstrating his own knowledge and skill in the field. He can speak with horse users with some sympathy without getting hoodwinked. In all sincerity, we are thinking of ways of inclusion and continued horse use by what we're doing rather than a slow shoe-horning out of horse use.
Horse use up here is very much keeping the packing tradition alive here in the American West.
That's an important thing for us to do. They weigh 1000 pounds, they stand on steel, they eat the wilderness. To each group, he offers flyers describing how to co-exist in the Wilderness. In the year 1970, the Forest Service began an effort to restore a very popular and heavily damaged campsite on spectacular Cliff Lake. Conditions at this elevation make for slow recovery.