desires to turn this mountain into a skiing lodge, angry voices from all over the world rose up with variants of demands on why and how we should preserve this beautiful mountain. Almost every day different religious practices such as nude bathing, camping out with magic crystals, yoga, and many "quasi-Christian" groups such as the I AM march their ways up to the tips of this mountain. With this activity the mountain pathways become clustered, cluttered and littered. Even the pathways' existence leads to erosion, and further slow degradation of the mountain. The Wintu tribe has voiced concerns and asked for support from the government to regulate the activities practiced on "their" mountain saying that "they are disturbed by the lack of respect" shown for this piece of land. It has become greatly debated if the more vulnerable and "spiritually desirable" places of the mountain should be closed and maintained only by the Wintu tribe, who see this land as a sacred graveyard of their ancestors, or open to all who seek spiritual fulfillment such as the modern-day group of the I AM. See also Sacred related Sacred groves Bodhi Tree Largest Banyan trees Sacred groves of India Sacred trees Trees in mythology Tree worship Sacred natural site Sacred rivers Sacred site General List of types of formally designated forests Superlative trees Tree hugger (disambiguation) World mountain References External links Sacred Mountains Heilige Berge (German) Sacred Mountains and Sanshin mountain-spirits of Korea Sacred Mountains and other sites, by Martin Gray (spirituality scholar)