They are the farmers, ranchers, miners and loggers who depend for their livelihood on the land and have lived on it for generations. Wise-users are also ordinary folks who have enjoyed the great outdoors in a wide variety of traditional forms of recreation, from camping to family snowmobile or ATV outings. Wise-users are good people. They certainly do not wish to do the terrible things detractors accuse them of. That's only fair.
Environmentalists have a lot to be skeptical of.
Particularly, the powerful combination of wealthy charitable foundations, grant-driven Green groups and zealous bureaucrats that obstruct resource workers all over rural America. Reichert wrote that message to recruit millions more from colleagues in the 200-member Environmental Grantmakers Association. Most Americans resent people rearranging their minds, but they don't know environmentalists are doing it to them. Take the recent Clinton administration designation of 40-60 million acres of federal land as permanent ''roadless area'' that bans logging, mining, ranching and farming there. It didn't just happen.