I'm not going to go into a long diatribe about who I am, where I came from, etc. Because, do you really care? Of course you do, I lied, here goes.

I'm a transplanted Chicagoan, moved to Tucson in 1980, Safford, AZ in 1989, and the Four Wheeling Center of the Universe, Farmington, NM in 1996. I rode motorcycles for years, started with street bikes, had a built to the hilt Kawasaki 500 triple in the early 70's, a Yoshimura engined Kawasaki 900 after that (you ask, why is this guy still alive after those two bikes?) picked up a Yamaha 360 dirt bike somewhere along the way in the late 70's, got a Honda CB1100F, traded that for a Honda XR500R (cool bike!), got tired of motorcycles somewhere in the mid 80's, had been wheeling in my buddy's Ford F-150, bought a Jeep CJ-7 in '85, still have that same Jeep which has gone through several metamorphises.

I've wheeled all over the Southwest, AZ, NM, UT, CO; and in all those years I've been to some real nice places that are now closed. I got interested in land use issues in the late '80s when the USFS closed everything over 10,000 ft. on Mt.Graham in SE AZ to protect a squirrel. Ever since then I've been somewhat active in land use issues in the areas I've lived in, but in the past few years with more and more closings of areas my interest has picked up.

A while back I started to get interested in computers, discovered the internet (no I DO NOT claim to have invented it, you all know who really did), and discovered Off-Road.com, and thought what a cool, huge site. I started noticing that the Land Use Section was kinda stale, so I e-mailed Pat Chicas and asked him if there was any way I could update the section. He wrote back, said when can you start, do you know html, ftp, and ssi. I said no, but I can learn, which I did in a couple days. After learning html I thought this is really cool, so now I update the Land Use Section virtually every day. There is so much stuff going on out there that sometimes I have a hard time picking just what to put up.

Oh, you're wondering what does this guy do when he's not wheeling and editing. I'm married, have 3 kids, and I work in local law enforcement on loan to the court to run a special program (that's as much about that as I'm giving up). One more thing, I'm real opinionated, everyone's entitled to their own opinion, even though they're wrong!

If you really want to you can e-mail me at cjjeepercreeper@sisna.com.