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working to protect the rights of the people to use and access public lands and waterways
(C) 2009 - Voice of the Ozarks Organization
forests by stripping the land of timber, selling it and buying more land to do the
same. While this is good for our citizens who work in the timber industry the
resource are being exhausted and the jobs will soon disappear. Once the Oak
forests are gone the acorns will disappear and whitetail deer populations will decline.
This will result in a loss of tourism revenue due to deer hunting. Both agencies are
harassing tourists who are vital to our economy. Trails that have been used by
horse people for decades are suddenly declared closed with little and sometimes no
posting and anyone caught on them is ticketed. Once again these tourists are vital
to our economic well being and one study suggests that the horse industry alone
has a 40 million dollar impact on the economy of Shannon County, which by the way
is the poorest county in Missouri.
Shannon County residents are unified in their resolve to confront these large
bureaucracies who for whatever reason are perpetually eroding our inalienable
rights to the use of lands that are supposed to belong to us to begin with. A few
months ago we banned together to create an organization to be heard; VOICE OF
THE OZARKS. We are a nonprofit organization open to citizens of Shannon County,
The State of Missouri and the United States of America. We invite American horse
enthusiasts as well as anyone who believes in individual rights to join us in our
attempt to keep this part of America as free as it always was!