While gun-nut Elmers are very bad, a close second are the off-road Elmers. These are people who drive the largest pickup they can find, put snow tires on them -- the largest they can find -- and take to the hills, the forest, and the desert to destroy as much of it as they can before it gets too dark for them to feel comfortable out in the hills.

These are also the Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) owers, the dirt bikers, the dune buggy drivers, the snow mobilers, the jet skiers, and the other frocking morons who take their gas hogging toys off paved roads, into Nature, or over America's waterways.

This series of photographs which follows show Elmer Fudd in his natural habitat: an Off Road Vehicle area specifically set aside for Elmers and their irresponsible toys. Yes, it's good that the U. S. Forest Service has created a pen for Elmers where they can screw up an environment that has already been so badly screwed up that it doesn't hurt to kill it a little more every day.

These photographs were taken in the San Gabriel Canyon North of Azusa, California, early one morning before the Elmers started showing up in large numbers (that is, before the hazards of being run over, maimed, or killed by an Elmer rose to unacceptable levels.

The GPS coordinates for the location of this observation is approximately:

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