As the posse of hikers gathered by the sunny trailhead, the early morning stillness was shattered by a harsh, thrumming whine, and a young boy on a dirt bike sped by in a puff of dust, leaving the group coughing in a cloud of foul-smelling diesel smoke. “That,” said Susie Kincade, “is why [there] needs to be wilderness!”She is an environmental advocate with Wilderness Workshop, a nonprofit activist group that campaigns for the protection of wilderness areas in western Colorado. On July 30, Kincade — along with conservation advocate and Iraq veteran Garret Reppenhagen of the Vets Voice organization — …
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