Christine’s Trail

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Hi,
I wanted to let you know that the United Four Wheel Drive Association (UFWDA) Lone Star Wheel-in event in Gilmer Texas November 21-23 at Barnwell Mountain, has been postponed until Memorial Day weekend May 22-24, 2009 due to Hurricane Ike and difficult economic pressures that so many are experiencing.

If you have already registered for the UFWDA Wheel-In scheduled for November 21, 22, and 23, 2008 at Barnwell Mountain in Upshur County, TX, please contact UFWDA at info@ufwda.org for a full refund of the registration price or to request that your registration be transferred to the spring Wheel-In at Barnwell Mountain.

United Four Wheel Drive Associations looks forward to the event in Texas and our return in the spring. We hope to see you Memorial Day weekend so come participate in this exciting off road adventure featuring trails ranging from easy to very difficult, contests, camping, catered BBQ Saturday night as well as a live band. I’ll be posting reminders and updates after the New Year you can also go to our website www.ufwda.org for information. Proceeds will help UFWDA protect, promote and provide 4×4 access worldwide so your chapter’s participation is important to us.
Melissa
UFWDA Events Coordinator

The club is getting increasingly concerned about our club meeting place, Skyline Restaurant. The room is too dark and smoky, and the area of town is a high crime area. We reserve the room a year in advance, so if we make a change, it needs to be soon so we can plan for 2009.
Several weeks ago we had an EAT and GREET at Fire Mountain in west OKC. It was well attended and everyone seemed to like the food, although it was it an all one price buffet. Their meeting room seats 50.
Since that time Pioneer Pies in south OKC has also been made available. They have a varied menu ranging from hamburgers to steaks, and of course their pies are excellent! Costs are reasonable and depend on what you order. All members are not required to order to attend the meeting.
In order to “check it out” we are having an EAT & GREET SOCIAL there at 6:30 Tues 11-11. Pioneer Pies is located at 2201 SW 74 ST, which is the north service road of I-240 between Penn and May. They will reserve the east half of the restaurant which seats 60. Please come on out and lets eat and visit and enjoy ourselves and check out this location too.
Voting on either Pioneer Pies or Fire Mountain will be done at the Nov. meeting when officers are voting is held.
Two of the suggestions on the club survey were more social time and a new meeting place. So, Let’s check this out.
See you there
Christine

I will have my receipt book for those who want to pay their dues, order Christmas ticket, or donate to our Community Service Project.
CF

HI!!
Long story short, I’m organizing a benefit for a woman named Lisa Beutler and her two children on Saturday, November 1, 2008. Her husband, Bill was injured in a bull dozer accident back in September and died as a result of his injuries. There happens to be a mud bog that day in Cashion, OK. Everything will proceed as normal (as in, all winners will still get the usual monies) but I’m just trying to get more people out and about and thought if we could get some more trucks to run in this thing, it would be awesome. Also, Bill was a diesel mechanic and liked all things mechanic, and all things loud, so after we observe a moment of silence, we want a really LOUD moment of revving - the more the merrier! Our town (Cashion) also has their annual holiday parade this day - maybe yall would like to strut your stuff down our main street!! If you have any questions pertaining to the mud bog itself, please call the organizer, Todd LaGasse, at 405-826-3540. If you have any questions pertaining to anything else, please call Tracy Thompson at 405-203-6886
Thanks so much!!

Tracy Thompson

Trailchasers Meet’n Greet flier has been published.

Flier

Hello Friends,
The club 2008 run schedule has the Labor Day run to Disney,Ok. However, at the Aug. meeting, there were only 2 members that were planning to go. Also, there is no club trail leader or tail gunner.
So, if you are planning to go to Disney, please email me. I will keep a count and let Don H. know. Also,we must have a trail leader to have a club run. If we don’t have enough for a run by Thurs AM, it will be canceled.
Please let me know and I’ll email back with run info.
Christine

Movie night is this Sat 8-9 at Winchester Drive Inn

Journey to the Center of the Earth
PG
8:45pm

Dark Knight
Keith Ledger
PG 13
10:35pm

Hancock
Will Smith
PG 13
1:15am

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Movie night 7/12/2008. Movies & times are:

The Indredible Hulk
PG 13
9:10 pm

Hancock
Will Smith
PG 13
11:20 pm

You Don’t Mess with the Zohan
Adam Sandlier
PG 13
1:05 am

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The Trailchasers’ July meeting is Tues 7-15. Movie night is this Sat. 7-12. I’ll send out movie info on Fri.
See you soon,
Christine

UNITED FOUR WHEEL DRIVE ASSOCIATIONS

www.ufwda.org

info@ufwda.org

1-800-448-3932

ACTION ALERT

July 3, 2008

Action Alert

Contact your US Senator or Representative NOW and ask them to co-sponsor and vote in support of HR 6233 and s 3113.

Background

On June 11, 2008, members of the North Carolina US congressional delegation introduced HR 6233 & s 3113 to return management of Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area back to the National Park Service by setting aside the recently enacted consent decree that has virtually eliminated pedestrian and off-highway vehicle access at Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area. The bill will reinstate the Interim Management Plan for Species Management adopted through the NEPA process and public involvement by the National Park Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service and set aside the consent decree. The consent decree was a result of law suit settlement with Defenders of Wildlife and The National Audubon Society represented by Southern Environmental Law Center.

What to do

We need all of you, in every state across the country, to contact your US Senators and Representatives asking them to co-sponsor and support HR 6233 and s. 3113.

How to be the most effective

1. Visit – visiting your elected officials is the most persuasive method of convincing them to support HR 6233 and s. 3113
2. Fax - faxed letters indicating who you are, where you live, why you care, and why they should care are more persuasive than other methods of sending a letter.
3. Call – a personal call is very effective and more effective than e-mailing
4. E-mail – e-mailing a letter is less effective than visiting, faxing or e-mailing a letter, but will work if that is the method that enables you to do your part.
5. Mail – using the U.S. Postal Service takes up to 30 days for delivery so it is the least effective choice in contacting your elected officials.

How to find your US Senator or Representative

To find your US Representative(s) click here : https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml

To find your US Senators click here : http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Talking points

These talking points are derived in part from information at the Free Island Press, July 1, 2008, “The Case For Passing Legislation That Returns Management of the Seashore to the Park Service”. www.freeislandpress.org. And from information on the University of North Carolina website, www.learnnc.org

• Ask them specifically to co-sponsor the bills
• Ask them specifically to support passage of the bills
• Cape Hatteras National Seashore Recreational Area was established first and foremost as a national seashore recreational area under its enabling legislation
• The 2007 nesting season, prior to implementation of either the Interim Management Plan or the consent decree, was the most successful piping plover breeding season in over 20 years
• Under the consent decree, a single plover chick is given enough beach area to cover the decks of three U.S. Navy super aircraft carriers, the largest warships on earth
• In most American communities, a convicted child molester can live closer to a public school than a fisherman and his family can get to a plover
• The Atlantic piping plover population is fast approaching 2,000 nesting pairs — a figure that makes them eligible for de-listing as threatened
• American oystercatcher numbers were better last year under the interim strategy than they are this year under the consent decree, proving the consent decree doesn’t work
• The Outer Banks of North Carolina attract 5 million tourists each year to the area’s many beaches
• The park is largely inaccessible under the consent decree during the spring, summer, and fall, when the majority of Americans who visit the park take their vacations
• In 2003, tourists spent $600 million dollars in the Outer Banks. The consent decree is causing a tremendous loss of this tourism revenue resulting in an extremely damaging economic impact state-wide in North Carolina
• Before implementation of the consent decree Judge Boyle declared his intention to provide the environmental groups exactly what they sought without hearing any evidence from either point of view and precluded the intervening parties, Dare and Hyde counties and the Cape Hatteras Access Preservation Alliance, from entering any evidence at all in open court. This occurred within the first few minutes of a February, 2008 scheduling conference in Judge Boyle’s court.