Time to abolish wakeboating
 

Turns out what we all knew is true. Wakeboards are disruptive and damaging. Tim’s to abolish wakeboating on FL lakes including Minona.

Study raises new questions over Minnesota lakes and wakesurfing | MPR News

Let's eliminate all boating and recreational sports ... let's go back to living like folks did in the 1700's. Would that work?

I would love that. I’m praying for the solar flare that wipes out all technology. I’d happily leave suburbia for my remote land and live peacefully without 4-wheelers and side by sides and boats buzzing around.

Be careful what you wish for. Hunting and fishing are also considered recreational sports. I’m guessing you wouldn’t be happy if those were eliminated, I know I wouldn’t be.

Country folks will survive. When it all goes down, we will be on top persevering as we know how to feed our own and live off the land. Plus hunting is a constitutional right in many states including FL.

Plus let’s remember. Hunting and fishing protect and restore habitat and wildlife. Per the research, wakeboarding destroys habitat.

[QUOTE=Ruger2506;2449483]I’m praying for the solar flare that wipes out all technology. I’d happily leave suburbia for my remote land and live peacefully /QUOTE]

You do realize that half of all people born before the Industrial Revolution died before 35?
The technology (clean water, sanitation, vaccines, medications, refrigeration, etc) is only reason most of use here are still alive.

Yep, no better way to protect a deer than to shoot it in the head. History is full of examples of hunting being protective and restorative - only in history though since the species were protected into extinction.

Watermen on the Chesapeake Bay wanted to preserve the crab population by reducing the number of Rockfish that were feeding on the eggs. Fortunately, the state imposed a moratorium on taking rockfish far a few years until the population recovered.

I enjoyed hunting when I was young but too much of anything is bad.

Yeah !
You be the first one to switch-off your air conditioner. That's a good start.

No pesticides, no weedkillers. Restore the natural beauty of Florida by letting it all grow wild. And for god's sake, no more planting "grass" on "lawns" in Central Florida! Let whatever grows, grow. Leave it to Mother Nature, that's her job.

This will be the answer to your prayers:
The New Luddites. More must be done to establish a middle… | by Joseph Park | Digital Architecture Lab | Medium

Love it.

I've already got my answer. My deep woods Canadian Border property has no cell service, no phone service, etc. It's heavenly.

“ Researchers concluded that in depths of 9 feet and 14 feet, the forces created by wake boats operating in surfing mode stir up sediment — tiny particles of sand, silt, clay and organic matter — from the lake bottom and suspend them in the water, turning it cloudy. That makes it more difficult for sunlight to penetrate, potentially affecting fish and plants.

Sediment also contains phosphorus, which can spur the growth of algae blooms that turn the lake green.

The report recommends that while operating in surfing mode — a slower speed that creates a large wake — boats should stay in at least 20 feet of water. That’s twice as deep as the recommendation in a study backed by the boating industry.”

There are other countries that you could do that without the solar flare. But, you may have to give up your 25 ought 6 and go back to Spears and throwing rocks to bring home your dinner. Just saying

I'm sure it is.

Guess you expect to be there when it happens.

Otherwise that's a long walk, for a not-young person, through tens of millions of desperate people, from here.

Apparently not so much or you'd be there right now ... not spending time on social media.