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Post by bchutchens on Mar 23, 2011 13:58:28 GMT -8
Just got this and wanted to pass it on- Grounded! Teen fined for trying to drive his 4×4 over forest road barricade By Ear to the Ground
Toyota 4x4 gets stuck trying to climb over forest road barricade. Photo: Chris Rankin/DNR On a recent Sunday afternoon, Chris Rankin came across a Toyota 4×4 pickup attempting to crawl over a buried ecology block designed to keep people from driving in the McDonald Ridge Forest block.
The truck ended up “high-centered” and stuck on the dirt berm that covered an ecology block.
Rankin, who happens to be a DNR law enforcement officer and on duty that day, presented the 17-year-old driver—a local teen—with an $87 citation.
The incident happened along the Kanskat-Kangley Road in King County. DNR manages the McDonald Ridge Forest block, located five miles east of Maple Valley. The forest is off-limits to motorized use and has only limited public access because it serves as a buffer for the adjacent Green River Watershed, the source of water for Tacoma Water and other water districts.
“There’s no excuse for not knowing the roads to the forest are closed,” Rankin said. “Both roads leading into this forest block are gated, locked, barricaded, and well signed.”
Rankin says he’s been able to correlate unlawful motorized entry in the area to extensive garbage dumping, abandoned vehicles, illegal fires, destruction of trees and plants, wood theft, unauthorized trail building, stream damage, and water contamination.
DNR appreciates the public’s help in alerting law enforcement to unlawful and suspicious activities on state trust lands. You can help. If possible, get a license plate number, and call 911.
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Post by pransom222 on Jul 26, 2011 9:15:35 GMT -8
That is a pretty funny picture. I hope the kid learned his lesson.
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