Common sense please

I’d like to congratulate John Rice on his letter “Reopen National Forest Roads” run in the Nov. 7 issue of the Seeley Swan Pathfinder. He hit the nail on the head with a four-pound hammer.

I lived for a short time near Thompson Falls and enjoyed rid’n my horse behind several gated roads look’n for stinky elk. Then along came the Forest Service and destroyed them. And I do mean destroyed them. You can’t even walk on them. At least you’d think they had enough sense to leave a walking path with the machine’s bucket.

Like my dear mother used to say when the government went crazy, “Sometimes they don’t have the good sense God gave a goose.” Us old folks would appreciate a place to walk and hunt.

And these roads were already gated and have water bars. Anyway, you’d think somewhere in the Forest Service are a few folks in charge with some common sense.