I thought you might be interested in this petition. I found it in one of my dirt bike forums. Please sign and pass it on, and contact your state senators for support on this issue.

http://www.e-thepeople.com/petition.cfm?PETID=277027

Forest Trails for All-Terrain Vehicles:
We, the undersigned, are appealing to our government for help in keeping our national lands open for those whose recreation involves riding off-road vehicles. Our cause
for concern involves the potential exclusion to our sport, while allowing bicycles, hunters, and hikers to take advantage of the beauty of our American Forests. We feel
that we are being discriminated against without just cause. Common sense tells us that there must be allowances for all
recreationists. The trails allocated now are relatively well maintained in the National lands. As part of a growing group of power sport riders , we would appreciate
your support in maintaining our rights and preserving our public domain for this recreational sport.

 

already done! and while you're there participate in the discussion. it's already being dominated by off-roaders, but we need to get after all the enviro petitions there to kill them.
the greater majority will prevail
Ride on...

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ahhh! the taste of unburnt hydrocarbons in the morning, gotta love it!

'91lt250r, '94 xr250l, '84 Jeep CJ-7, all mildly modified

 

Certainly I support efforts toward keeping and, on hopes, increasing, ORV trails in our National Forest (my club, the Northern Virginia Trail Riders, maintains extensive trails in George Washington National Forest nvtr.org).

With the Clinton Administration, however, we have a hard row to hoe.

Recent hearings, broadcast by CSPAN, found the Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief of the Forest Service testifying before an Alaska senator.

The senator asked about the "back door" procedure of creating de facto wilderness areas by arbitrarily designating National Forest tracts as "roadless areas" (with this technique, no hearing nor Congressional action is required, as when legitimate wilderness areas are created).

When asked if the "roadless areas" would be managed the same as wilderness areas, the Secretary of Agriculture said, "I don't know."

Imagine. Here's the man issuing the orders designating 5,000 acre or larger blocks of public land as "roadless areas," yet he "doesn't know" how they'll be managed? Really.

I know how they'll be managed, because I attended a public workshop on the subject. They'll be managed like this: no motorized access at all, period. No logging (even of dead tree stands from gypsy moth infestation), no mining, no prospecting, no maintenance of existing power lines or pipelines by road.

No evacuation of medical casualties by motorized conveyance (ambulance or helicopter) without specific permission of the chief forester.

As the Alaska senator said, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, flies like a duck, sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck." In other words, substitute the words Wilderness Area for Roadless Area, except the checks and balances of the Wilderness Area Act, requiring hearings and Congressional action, are sidestepped and evaded by the "environmentalist"-dominated Clinton Adminstration, pandering to eco-terrorists.

Enough preaching to the choir, I apologize.

Tree Farmer