Public Comment

I've called and emailed numerous people in the Park District, and no one will return a phone call or reply to an email. What are you afraid of? This is not appropriate. You are all public employees - you work for me!

Meanwhile, the parks are rapidly degrading, due to too much visitation by people, habitat fragmentation due to trail-building, mountain biking, grazing by non-native cattle, rapid habitat destruction due to the spread of invasive non-native plants, etc. When I visit a park, other than a few birds, I see no wild animals at all! Your primary duty is the preservation of native wildlife. But you aren't doing it. In real life, bicycles aren't allowed on sidewalks, and yet you think it's quite all right to allow them on narrow trails with hikers and horses! And now, even though hikers have paid for all of the trails, your "pilot project" will ban hikers from some bike-only trails! Since when have mountain bikers - who regularly break the law and destroy habitat by building illegal trails - been granted special privileges?

Isn't anybody there capable of thinking?