Are we dommed ? read the header on the opining page what do you all think ?

 

Jaime
Based on reading the header in the opinion page, I don't think we are doomed, but if the current presidential administration continues another 4 years, there will definitely be more trail closures. ATV's need to watch the NRA and form a similar national group to fight the loss of trails in the entire US. The AMA is great, but it is also fighting for other motorcycle issues and not focused on off road vehicle issues. The ATV manufacturers need to wake up and start working togther with funding for a national organization that is able to put pressure on Washington when this kind of crap happens. The bureaucrats in Washington find it easy to ignore individuals and small regional groups, but hard to ignore national groups with large followings.

 

I studied this issue last fall and it is real, I can tell you that. The most you can do is to send e-mail letters to the president, v.p., your senators and congressmen, the national forest chief mike Dombeck. On the ama web site, they had helpfull information for each of us to be able to send e-mails. I sent them all an e-mail and told them to keep the forest roads open. I dont mind, if the federal government wants to buy up more land and add it to the national forests as long as they keep the areas open to us. I drove 400 miles this weekend in superior national forest in minnesota. I did not see atv damage any where. This is a large area and if it was off limits to atv's; Wow! that would hurt. In the winter, this forest is home to many hundreds of snowmobilers. I do agree with what was mentioned above that the orv manufacturers better take a lead and get organized like ama, and the nra is. rangerchet

 

Yeah they better ban togther all the manfacturers or they will loose allot of money in lost sales of ATV's. We need a national offroad vehicle club of some sort. I would pay dues for that no problem. I imagine Polaris, Honda , Yamaha, Suzuki and Kwasaki, could come up with some lobbying cash if the need too.