Tom hit the nail on the head as far as I'm concerned especially with the Sierra Club and all of its followers.
We were gonna have the world finals for pwc (jet-ski) racing down in san diego to help promote the sport instead of in lake havasu, AZ where it was held for over a decade. Everything was going good till the environmentalist found out and killed the whole deal at a city council meeting. They stated we would pollute the local marine environment with 200,000 gallons of oil and spilled gas or something stupid like that, they had this whole ellaborate bs presentation they did. Our racing organization the IJSBA just got pummeled by the million dollar backed eco freaks and the city council, many of which were financially supported by eco's cancelled the event. Just to give you an idea of the tactics they use.
Look Bush in my view is a great guy, he's an outdoorsman like his dad and enjoys it as much as we do I'm sure. The problem is they get bombarded by enviro's all the time, his administration doesnt get to hear our views on anything because we dont talk or get organized. I have no doubt that the President would willingly listen to a fisherman passionately speak about his sport and how to help improve it. Us telling the story, asking for help is way different than environmentalists. Their ideas are blinded and will not work, for example yanking down a few dams on the snake. Big woop, there is a lot more to improving the river quality there an just removing cement. And if they did, we would lose and many hard working farmers would lose just like in the California incident. The environmentalists will side with us just to defeat a common enemies policy and swiftly turn on us, they hate who we are and what we do just as bad as they hate bush. Just think about how it would be with the alternitive! Gore. Ya we might get to greener forests and cleaner streams faster but it would be "oh put the fishing poles and guns down you barbarians, you cant use those waterways or forests anyway, only nature walks and songs of happiness are allowed bla bla bla bla".
See why my generation is so violent, we have morons like gore telling us how to live our lives.

Waterboy