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03-25-2005, 02:53 PM
Mickey Goodweiler
Nevada United Four Wheelers Association
P.O. Box 750782
Las Vegas, NV 89139-0782
email: goodweilers@cs.com
JARBIDGE ROAD OPENING CELEBRATION
JULY 1-4, 2005
THE ROAD IS OPEN!!!!
Come to Elko County July 1-4, 2005 and join the fifth year celebration of the opening of the Jarbridge road.
Those that had the courage to shovel the road open on July 4, 2000 will be honored along with the brave Elko County Commission.
Part of the excitement of the July 1-4, 2005 weekend is the Annual Basque Festival with many Basque events including the Running with the Bulls on the streets of downtown Elko. If you want to take a chance of getting gored, sign up with the Elko Basque Club at the Elko Basque Center, 1601 Flagview Drive, Elko, Nevada, 775-738-9957.
The celebration is going to be great fun as four-wheelers, farmers, loggers, hunters, motorcyclists, miners, ranchers, snowmobilers, mountain bikers, etc., meet to celebrate the road opening. BBQ’s, dances, trail rides, speeches (very few), visits to ghost towns and mines and other excursions are being planned.
The Nevada United Four Wheelers Association in Las Vegas announced in January that they were going to sponsor this fifth year celebration of the opening of the Jarbidge Road. It has since begun to grow with other organizations offering to co-sponsor. Your organization is invited to co-sponsor by sending your information to Mickey Goodweiler, NUFWA, P.O. Box 750782, Las Vegas, Nevada 89139-0782 or by email to goodweilers@cs.com.
On July 4, 2000 a hardy band of 1,000 freedom loving Americans from forty states used shovels and picks to open the Jarbidge Road. They were opposed by the Clinton/Gore Administration environmental bureaucrats. A Federal Judge authorized the Shovel Brigade to go to Jarbidge, but the bureaucrats continued to threaten. The Elko County Commission stood firm in 2000 and has continued to keep the road open while fending off bureaucrats that had been promoted during the Clinton/Gore Administration.
After Elko County got help to open the Jarbidge Road, the citizens of Elko County started reaching out to help others around the country in their fights with the radical environmental bureaucrats. Elko citizens sponsored a convoy to Darby, Ohio to help landowners in Darby stop the US Fish and Wildlife Service from designating the land as a refuge and buying up the farms that President George Washington and Congress used to pay Revolutionary War Soldiers.
Elko County sponsored a convoy to Eureka, Montana to support the loggers and saw mills that were being closed.
Elko County and Montana loggers and ranchers sponsored convoys into Klamath Falls to support the Klamath Falls farmers that had their water shut off in 2001. Those convoys raised over $100,000 auctioning shovels and other donated items at rallies on the convoy routes to help suffering farmers. One shovel brought $1,000 at the rally/auction at Tracey, California.
Elko County, the Klamath Bucket Brigade and the farmers at Darby, Ohio, then sponsored two convoys; one that started in Klamath Falls and one in Ohio that went clear to the southern tip of Florida to publicize how the radical environmental bureaucrats were flooding out the farmers and homeowners in Florida so they could force more people off the land. The Giant Jarbidge Shovel and two Giant Klamath Buckets were campaigned all the way to South Florida.
The Jarbidge Road has been open since July 4, 2000, but Clinton/Gore holdovers in the Forest Service and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service have continued to try to intimidate people so that they would not use the road. In June, 2003, John Eickhof was cited for driving on the road. The Forest Service claimed he had destroyed habitat. John, his 13-year-old daughter and several other families were on an annual outing in their restored WWII and Korean War vintage Dodge Powerwagons and had driven up to the end of the road to the outhouse.
(Note: this is the infamous outhouse that the Forest Service cleaned using a helicopter to fly out the sewage rather than have the Shovel Brigade volunteers clean it for free. The Forest Service spent over $16,000.00 on the helicopter contractor because they believed it would hurt the image of the Forest Service to allow volunteers to clean it.)
The Forest Service sent armed agents to John’s home in Idaho to serve him with the $150.00 citation. John refused to pay the citation and the Shovel Brigade defended him for free. The case went to trial in Federal Court in Reno, Nevada in 2004. The Forest Service and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife, using eight government experts and the report from Katie Fite, a representative of John Marvel, developed a 130 page report on the case. After the Forest Service presented their case to the Court without the Shovel Brigade even having to put on the nine witnesses prepared for John’s defense, the Judge dismissed the case.
The road is getting more use now that the Forest Service lost the Eickhof case and their threats of arrests have been shown to be without merit.
The Giant Jarbidge Shovel that has been the symbol of the road opening that the Elko County Commission placed on the County Courthouse steps that thousands of people put their names on needs to be refurbished. The original names were put on plastic sheets and fastened to the giant shovel. While the giant shovel was on the Elko County Courthouse lawn, the giant shovel was sabotaged and many of the names were destroyed. A sign at the scene claimed that “Earth First!” had done the damage. Then more names were lost from wind, rain, snow and setting up and taking down during the over 7,000 miles of convoying across 15 states.
To get your name permanently on the giant shovel and help with the restoration, send $5.00 or more to the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, 491 4th Street, Elko, Nevada 89801.
Accommodations:
Rooms will sell out fast. Call, write, or e-mail the Elko Area Chamber of Commerce, 1405 Sherman Street, Elko, Nevada, 775-738-7135 or the Elko Convention & Visitors Authority at 700 Moren Way, Elko, Nevada, 775-738-4091 for accommodation information. You may also contact Mr. Reuben Abeyta, Manager of the Hilton Garden Inn at their toll-free number 877-777-7307. Mr. Abeyta is also the President of the Elko Innkeepers Association.
If all the Elko rooms are filled, try the Wells Chamber of Commerce at 395 Sixth Street, Wells, Nevada, 775-752-3540. If you cannot find a room, there are campsites or maybe a Jarbidge Shovel Brigader will put you up.
Nevada United Four Wheelers Association
P.O. Box 750782
Las Vegas, NV 89139-0782
email: goodweilers@cs.com
JARBIDGE ROAD OPENING CELEBRATION
JULY 1-4, 2005
THE ROAD IS OPEN!!!!
Come to Elko County July 1-4, 2005 and join the fifth year celebration of the opening of the Jarbridge road.
Those that had the courage to shovel the road open on July 4, 2000 will be honored along with the brave Elko County Commission.
Part of the excitement of the July 1-4, 2005 weekend is the Annual Basque Festival with many Basque events including the Running with the Bulls on the streets of downtown Elko. If you want to take a chance of getting gored, sign up with the Elko Basque Club at the Elko Basque Center, 1601 Flagview Drive, Elko, Nevada, 775-738-9957.
The celebration is going to be great fun as four-wheelers, farmers, loggers, hunters, motorcyclists, miners, ranchers, snowmobilers, mountain bikers, etc., meet to celebrate the road opening. BBQ’s, dances, trail rides, speeches (very few), visits to ghost towns and mines and other excursions are being planned.
The Nevada United Four Wheelers Association in Las Vegas announced in January that they were going to sponsor this fifth year celebration of the opening of the Jarbidge Road. It has since begun to grow with other organizations offering to co-sponsor. Your organization is invited to co-sponsor by sending your information to Mickey Goodweiler, NUFWA, P.O. Box 750782, Las Vegas, Nevada 89139-0782 or by email to goodweilers@cs.com.
On July 4, 2000 a hardy band of 1,000 freedom loving Americans from forty states used shovels and picks to open the Jarbidge Road. They were opposed by the Clinton/Gore Administration environmental bureaucrats. A Federal Judge authorized the Shovel Brigade to go to Jarbidge, but the bureaucrats continued to threaten. The Elko County Commission stood firm in 2000 and has continued to keep the road open while fending off bureaucrats that had been promoted during the Clinton/Gore Administration.
After Elko County got help to open the Jarbidge Road, the citizens of Elko County started reaching out to help others around the country in their fights with the radical environmental bureaucrats. Elko citizens sponsored a convoy to Darby, Ohio to help landowners in Darby stop the US Fish and Wildlife Service from designating the land as a refuge and buying up the farms that President George Washington and Congress used to pay Revolutionary War Soldiers.
Elko County sponsored a convoy to Eureka, Montana to support the loggers and saw mills that were being closed.
Elko County and Montana loggers and ranchers sponsored convoys into Klamath Falls to support the Klamath Falls farmers that had their water shut off in 2001. Those convoys raised over $100,000 auctioning shovels and other donated items at rallies on the convoy routes to help suffering farmers. One shovel brought $1,000 at the rally/auction at Tracey, California.
Elko County, the Klamath Bucket Brigade and the farmers at Darby, Ohio, then sponsored two convoys; one that started in Klamath Falls and one in Ohio that went clear to the southern tip of Florida to publicize how the radical environmental bureaucrats were flooding out the farmers and homeowners in Florida so they could force more people off the land. The Giant Jarbidge Shovel and two Giant Klamath Buckets were campaigned all the way to South Florida.
The Jarbidge Road has been open since July 4, 2000, but Clinton/Gore holdovers in the Forest Service and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service have continued to try to intimidate people so that they would not use the road. In June, 2003, John Eickhof was cited for driving on the road. The Forest Service claimed he had destroyed habitat. John, his 13-year-old daughter and several other families were on an annual outing in their restored WWII and Korean War vintage Dodge Powerwagons and had driven up to the end of the road to the outhouse.
(Note: this is the infamous outhouse that the Forest Service cleaned using a helicopter to fly out the sewage rather than have the Shovel Brigade volunteers clean it for free. The Forest Service spent over $16,000.00 on the helicopter contractor because they believed it would hurt the image of the Forest Service to allow volunteers to clean it.)
The Forest Service sent armed agents to John’s home in Idaho to serve him with the $150.00 citation. John refused to pay the citation and the Shovel Brigade defended him for free. The case went to trial in Federal Court in Reno, Nevada in 2004. The Forest Service and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife, using eight government experts and the report from Katie Fite, a representative of John Marvel, developed a 130 page report on the case. After the Forest Service presented their case to the Court without the Shovel Brigade even having to put on the nine witnesses prepared for John’s defense, the Judge dismissed the case.
The road is getting more use now that the Forest Service lost the Eickhof case and their threats of arrests have been shown to be without merit.
The Giant Jarbidge Shovel that has been the symbol of the road opening that the Elko County Commission placed on the County Courthouse steps that thousands of people put their names on needs to be refurbished. The original names were put on plastic sheets and fastened to the giant shovel. While the giant shovel was on the Elko County Courthouse lawn, the giant shovel was sabotaged and many of the names were destroyed. A sign at the scene claimed that “Earth First!” had done the damage. Then more names were lost from wind, rain, snow and setting up and taking down during the over 7,000 miles of convoying across 15 states.
To get your name permanently on the giant shovel and help with the restoration, send $5.00 or more to the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade, 491 4th Street, Elko, Nevada 89801.
Accommodations:
Rooms will sell out fast. Call, write, or e-mail the Elko Area Chamber of Commerce, 1405 Sherman Street, Elko, Nevada, 775-738-7135 or the Elko Convention & Visitors Authority at 700 Moren Way, Elko, Nevada, 775-738-4091 for accommodation information. You may also contact Mr. Reuben Abeyta, Manager of the Hilton Garden Inn at their toll-free number 877-777-7307. Mr. Abeyta is also the President of the Elko Innkeepers Association.
If all the Elko rooms are filled, try the Wells Chamber of Commerce at 395 Sixth Street, Wells, Nevada, 775-752-3540. If you cannot find a room, there are campsites or maybe a Jarbidge Shovel Brigader will put you up.