Crystal Lake in 2010

Here are examples of over use in the Angeles National Forest. In 1998, it's estimated that 40 million people went into and out of these mountains. This lake was a nice clear blue in 1987. Here is what it looks like with irresponsible and collective use of this national forest. These are also the results of new Orwellian policies thrusted against the hordes of vigilantes. One could also say they are the results of unmolested global capitalism courtesy of the 1994 GATT/NAFTA agreements. We are all responsible collectively...so the collective thinking of one's individual actions probably to the key to see how all this could propagate. Maybe today ( or recently) a good 70 million attend the forest; in fact the Angeles Forest Highway has been used as a commute road since the new economics from the late 1980s. It's a wonder that it hasn't been worse...hopefully people will wake up from their dream like states and respect the very Nature that a Higher Power made them from.