Trump Rescinds Ban on OHV use on Public Lands

[Dougfirtree]

Call me a nerd, but I've been thinking a lot about Saruman lately, and "The Scouring of the Shire."

This sucks. Keep bothering your reps, especially if they're on the red team. And vote boldly in November..

 

[elkduds]

unfortunately that approach simply won't work in the long run.

Imagine the news coverage. OHV users are complaining that their machines are being vandalized and incapacitated when they leave the trails that were formerly legal to OHVs. Since Trump ordered the rescission of rules regulating motor vehicle travel on BLM lands and national forests, machines and users have created disrupted wildlife, permanently damaged streambeds, streambanks and landscapes, and prompting opponents of this policy to adopt guerrilla tactics. No opponents were available for comment. Officials noted that the off-grid nature of these sabotage crimes makes them virtually impossible to prosecute, even when trail cams show images of camoflaged vandals damaging unattended machines.

 

[Gerald Martin]

Trying to decide whether to buy an Argo and wrap a red bandanna around my neck or start packing a bag of sugar in my pack to supplement the gas tanks of guys driving into my favorite elk meadow….

We were going to use ATVs to ride 3 1/2 miles up an ATV legal trail before shouldering our packs and hiking another seven miles into the wilderness to get to mountain goat camp.

Sounds like the pack in portion of our hunt just got a lot easier and the elk hunting just got a lot more crowded.

Also digging the potential to use an ATV to chase err.. access the isolated sections of BLM ground was planning to hike into for antelope season

 

[mtmuley]

Wait till I figure out how to corner cross with a ATV. mtmuley

 

[R.K.]

Pebble in the valve stem cap caused a slow leak and no monetary damage, just inconvenience.

 

[Dave N]

Wait till I figure out how to corner cross with a ATV. mtmuley

 

[TheTone]

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Probably a lot of areas that would be shockingly easy on a dirt bike

 

[Nick87]

Trying to decide whether to buy an Argo

or start packing a bag of sugar in my pack to supplement the gas tanks of guys driving into my favorite elk meadow

Both.

 

[DFS]

I wonder who the hell is giving him the advice that this was a good idea. Burgam?

 

[mevertsen]

Wait till I figure out how to corner cross with a ATV. mtmuley

Screw ATV's. Thats so 1980s.

We need 1890s technology. ..

 

[Gerald Martin]

Welp, I guess we’re all gonna get Rzrs and not have any excuses….

 

[okie archer]

What am I missing here. Many places already allow atv/utv's.
Saw several last year on my Colorado elk hunt on NF as well as several years ago in AZ on a public land elk hunt. No I don't like it but it's not something new best I can tell.