Aw shit!!! FW just called me mainstream. What the hell have I been doing on this site for the last two years?
BTW, I can think of very few times that environmental groups have caused serious problems for climbers. The concept that limiting ANY access is bad because it will lead to LOTS of closures is untenable. That's MORE extreme than the green position.
It also wasn't the Wilderness Society that advocated for limiting access to Mt. Hood but Wilderness Watch. The distinction is important, because the WS is a large, national and mainstream group with thousands of memebers, whereas WW is a small group out of Eugene that does not speak for the nearly the same number of people. Watch for the Mt. Hood National Forest to reignite this debate in the near future.