ATV problems

[Ithaca 37]

I'll be gone a few days. Here's some great reading:

Off-road vehicles destroying flood control mechanisms in N.W. Valley

http://www.fcd.maricopa.gov/District/NewsDetails.asp?NEWS=6

Off-Road Vehicle Abuse on Colorado's Public Lands

http://www.wilderness.org/WhereWeWork/Colorado/orv.cfm?TopLevel=Orv

Off-Road Vehicles: Tire Tracks Across our Natural Heritage

http://bluewaternetwork.org/campaign_pl_offroad.shtml

Off-road vehicles driving walkers off the trail

http://www.ramblers.org.uk/mag/misc/4wd.html

Increasing numbers of off-road vehicle users are driving off designated roads and trails on public lands, destroying wildlife habitat, polluting air and water, and damaging pristine wildlands

http://www.earthjustice.org/urgent/display.html?ID=60

Off-Road Vehicles & Recreational Development Threaten Public Lands

http://www.americanlands.org/forestweb/recinfo.htm

 

[JoseCuervo]

"The BLM has documented extensive damage caused by off-road vehicles in the Wilderness Study Areas it oversees," said Jerry Greenberg, co-chair of the National ORV Coalition. "ORVs are causing soil erosion, tearing up plants, ripping through streambeds, gouging holes in the landscape, and destroying some of the wildest and most fragile natural places that the public owns. However, the new strategy essentially directs BLM managers to continue their existing policies for managing ORVs on those lands, barring only development of new routes and trails there."