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JOIN, DONATE AND VOLUNTEER

JOIN, DONATE, AND VOLUNTEER - IT MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE

If You Love the Outdoor Lifestyle, Do Your Part to Keep it Alive.

by Del Albright

The FOUR best things you can do to keep your sports, hobbies, and outdoor lifestyle alive and well are to JOIN, DONATE, VOLUNTEER, and BUY from the right businesses.

Join what makes sense to you.

Donate to your favorite groups when you have a few extra bucks.

Volunteer your time -- the most precious commodity. Help out where it makes sense to your schedule.

Buy from the right businesses - from those that support our trails, our raffles, and events.

Believe it or not, it makes all the difference in the world when you are part of a brick-and-mortar off road group where your name is part of a larger organization. Virtual groups are not enough. JOIN up. Be part of the solution to keep our public lands public.

Del

My book on Amazon offers shortcuts and tips for becoming more involved in land use and keeping public lands public.

"VIRTUAL" FUN HAS ITS LIMITATIONS

BEING VIRTUAL IS NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP YOUR ACTIVITIES ALIVE AND WELL.

By Del Albright

Whether it's about guns, your kids school parent's program, your church, your RC hobby or your off-road/backcountry motorirzed sports, being VIRTUAL is not enough!

Virtual fun will not stop those that want to change what you enjoy doing; or even close down your sport.

JOIN those groups that support your activtites if you expect to keep them alive the way you like things.

I spend my fair share of time with my nose in my phone; but I kick myself often to remember to do MORE than explore the virtual world. We have to join, donate, volunteer and be part of keeping what we love to do alive and well.

Start with a national group for your activities; include Regional and State Associations and groups. But JOIN and do what your time allows to be part of the solution.

For example, for the price of my phone I could have purchased a full year membership in all these outfits: BlueRibbon Coalition, cal4wheel, United Four Wheel Drive Associations, Nevada Four Wheel Drive Association N4WDA, California Off-Road Vehicle Association, American Motorcyclist Association, Tread Lightly! the NRA, and a few more groups.

Just do it; join up and be heard.

RUN A BETTER MEETING

LEARN MORE ABOUT NEPA

WRITE A LETTER

GIVE A SPEECH

LEARN TO FACILITATE MEETINGS

WHY JOIN A CLUB

ORGANIZE A CONVOY

JOIN THE RIGHT GROUPS

GET VOLUNTEER TRAINING

LEAD VOLUNTEERS

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Let's Rally Behind the BlueRibbon Coalition Fund-Raiser

I just opened my letter from the BlueRibbon Coalition asking for our special help in these changing times. I say we get behind this and help hit new levels of fund-raising in order to keep BRC in the fight, nationally and locally, kickin' it for us!!

Times are critical right now, and in the words of Greg Mumm, Executive Director at BRC, "the Administration and Congress have upped the ante to record new levels when it comes to "changing" the landscape -- literally." We gotta help BRC get stronger, now.

The goal is to raise $500,000 to help support the BRC budget and the legal battles from Tellico to the Hammers. All donations of any size would help right now. Please go here and give what you can as we need your help. I need your help as well because without BRC, I would not be doing what I'm doing for our recreational access.
Help us here: http://www.sharetrails.org/donate
thank you,
Del

IH8MUD Rocks the World with March MUDness for Landuse

This is from our friends at IH8MUD.com, Brian "Woody" Swearingen owner. They are rocking us with a huge donation program from the members of the forum. NEW members are welcome. Join up just to support the cause if nothing else. :)
Get a forum Silver Star at the same time.
thank you Woody and the great folks at IH8MUD.com
Del

March 'MUDness and Blue Ribbon Coalition!!

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I've supported Blue Ribbon Coalition for years, and I know many of the members of IH8MUD have as well.

This is your opportunity to upgrade your forum status to Silver Star AND 100% of your subscription goes to Blue Ribbon!!

WHAT?!?!?

Starting TODAY, March 1st, any CHECK mailed in for a Silver Star will be donated 100% to the Blue Ribbon Coalition!

You can finally get your first star...you can extend your current star for another year...you can donate a star to a friend...or you can simply donate!

ALSO, for 3 days only, March 15-16-17, all Paypal Silver Star Subscriptions will be 100% donated to Blue Ribbon Coalition!!

Simply put....if 250 people mail in checks or renew via Paypal, I will cut a check for $5000 to the Blue Ribbon Coalition, courtesy of the membership of IH8MUD. The more who Subscribe, the bigger the donation!

Paypal transactions MUST occur on one of those three dates...if your star renewed in February, you can extend for another year. If you have a continuing subscription set up, you can STILL add a year on during this time. If your membership expires March 12, you can either 'stall' your renewal until the promotion dates OR mail a check in now!

FINALLY...Paypal takes a fee from every transaction...while I REALLY prefer everyone does this via check, I know some will prefer the ease of Paypal...IH8MUD will 'absorb' these Paypal fees and 100% of your $20 subscription will be forwarded to Blue Ribbon.

GET THOSE CHECKS MAILED IN! Payable to IH8MUD.com (and be SURE to include username(s) in the comment line!)

IH8MUD.com
813 E Harrison St
Appleton, WI 54915

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Disclaimers: You can only join or extend for one year. Users can only receive one donated star, any duplicates will be considered an open donation to BRC. Any Paypal subscriptions received after 11:59pm on March 17th will not be included in the donation. Any USPS mailed-in subscriptions postmarked after March 17th will not be included. This does NOT include a membership in Blue Ribbon Coalition.