| 2008 Sep 14 | Part I: Renegade riders - New laws and extra enforcement aren't keeping all-terrain vehicles from going off trails to damage fragile state lands. |
| 2008 Sep 15 | Part II: Renegade riders - A club-sponsored ride leads to an investigation of a damaged wetland, triggering a fox guarding the henhouse debate. |
| 2008 Sep 16 | Part III: Control at last or inviting trouble? - A massive DNR program to decide where ATVs may go in state forests is meant to reduce damage and resolve conflicts. But some agency experts say the plan leaves too much land open to motors. |
| 2008 Sep 3 | First Person: Off-Road Facts - there are scientific explanations for why ORVs damage forest ecosystems in ways more extreme and rapid than mere human and animal foot traffic. Without understanding the damage their vehicles inflict on the forest, ORVers have little incentive to change their behavior—and the public has less incentive to request serious regulation of motorized recreation by the Forest Service. |
| 2008 Aug 16 | Curb ORVs - As an organization dedicated to protecting clean water in New Mexico, we have grave concerns about the water quality impacts of ORVs in our headwater streams. Disturbance from ORVs can cause serious problems to rivers and streams, including turbidity and sedimentation, both of which impact fish populations. |
| 2008 Aug 16 | Report biased - Ms. Matlock's writings on the Travel Management Plan are consistently biased in favor of Off Road Vehicle users, and just as consistently inaccurate. They are, in essence, editorials. Rather than quoting qualified experts she takes the word of ORV supporters that there's little conflict between user groups in Colorado and Utah, when the exact opposite is the truth, as has been widely reported in numerous publications. |
| 2008 Aug 13 | ATV Opponents Question Enforcement - Off-road vehicles on publics lands is becoming an critical issue. Critical, because of the damage they do to the environment, the lawlessness, and the disruption to quiet recreationists. |
| 2008 Aug 12 | 'Off-Road Rage' Climbs as Trails Get More Crowded - FARMINGTON, N.M. -- As more and more Americans light out for backcountry trails, officials are seeing a parallel rise in episodes of "off-road rage": unpleasant, even violent encounters between drivers of all-terrain vehicles and hikers, mountain bikers and others. |
| 2008 Aug 12 | Disparate trail lovers on quest for common ground - The biggest concern people have expressed at earlier meetings is how the Forest Service, chronically understaffed and underfunded, will enforce a designated motorized system. Private property owners also are worried whether they will still be able to reach their inholdings if the forest service closes the roads to motorized vehicles. |
| 2008 Aug 7 | Voices for quiet - The national forests' push for recreational all-terrain and off-road vehicle use on public lands is now in our neck of the woods — a one-square-mile site just west and north of the beautiful and sacred Aspen Ranch area off of Pacheco Canyon. Is this what we want? We need to express our opinions |
| 2008 Jul 17 | OHVs: Santa Fe forest proposal praised by enviros, maligned by off-roaders - "We feel the forest largely did what they were supposed to do legally," she said. "But we don't understand why the Forest Service is condoning illegal behavior by designating these routes that were cut by lawbreakers and giving them what they've created." Spingler said off-roaders primarily use old hunting trails or logging roads. He plans to weigh in heavily at upcoming meetings on the proposal, he added. "We intend to battle this to the bitter end," he said. |
| 2008 Jul 12 | Off-road plan seeks middle ground - It looks as if the forestales have begun with a nice compromise between the roadlessness advocated by many environmentalists and the call from the motor guys to keep today's, uh, roads open. |
| 2008 Jul 11 | Santa Fe national forest will be a quieter, sweeter-smelling place - "This is a huge step in the right direction for protecting water, wildlife and places of refuge," Bryan Bird of the nonprofit advocacy group WildEarth Guardians. On the other side, off-road enthusiasts are fuming. Gordon Spingler of Los Alamos said the Forest Service plans would ban him and others in the Blackfeather Club from using trails they themselves built in the Jemez Mountains. |
| 2008 Jul 11 | Santa Fe National Forest: Proposal cuts road use in half - Off-road enthusiasts say they'll fight plan; supporters call it 'victory for quiet recreation' |
| 2008 Jul 11 | N.M. forest releases motorized travel proposal - The Santa Fe National Forest on Thursday released its proposed action for managing motorized travel across the northern New Mexico forest. Forest Supervisor Dan Jiron said the proposal was an effort to protect natural and cultural resources, minimize conflicts between off-roaders and others and still provide motorized access to the forest. |
| 2008 Jul 4 | Moab's Labyrinth Canyon--Future Off-Roading Sacrifice Area? - The "spaghetti" network of proposed motorized route designations pictured here is ... the plan for Moab area's famous landscape of red canyons, mesas and arches. The vast majority of these routes are artifacts of uranium mining and uncontrolled cross-country ORV use--they were never planned, analyzed, or engineered. Route networks such as this carve up the landscape... |
| 2008 Jun 24 | Off-roaders threaten tradition - Residents on Glorieta Mesa say irresponsible off-roaders are threatening their livelihood by tearing up the forest they depend on. |
| 2008 Jun 16 | OHV travel tearing up saturated trails - Wet spring and early summer conditions mean many forest roads are muddy and easily rutted and damaged. Off highway vehicles traveling cross-country are ripping up meadows and other easily damaged areas, officials say. It is illegal to damage natural resources by any means without a permit to do so, such as cutting firewood. |
| 2008 Jun 13 | Putting brakes on illegal off-road vehicles - Damage surveys at parks across the nation showed a swarm of problems from simple to serious. |
| 2008 Jun 11 | The ATV: A scholarly study - During Memorial Day weekend, there were 13 ATV-related deaths nationally with four in Kentucky, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commissioner. |
| 2008 Jun 10 | Upper Verde suffers from off-road vehicle abuse - King just installed a new sign 10 days ago at top of the canyon rim that shows vehicles are prohibited on the trail these families used to drop into the canyon. Unknown vandals had destroyed the first sign, and then they hauled off the one he used to replace it. King constantly replaces signs that ORV users tear up, burn up, shoot and steal. He picks up lots of trash and puts out abandoned campfires. |
| 2008 Jun 9 | Off-road vehicles damage state's wildlife - The Georgia Times Union reports all terrain vehicles are wreaking havoc on the state's wildlife. Drivers of off-road vehicles are illegally roving in areas off limits. This is damaging natural wetlands and making wildnerness vulnerable to wild fires. State officials say they are to blame for two recent fires that burned five acres on the coast. |
| 2008 Jun 8 | Diverse coalition urges Nevada lawmakers to register off-road vehicles - A coalition of ranchers, sportsmen, conservationists and law enforcement authorities has urged a state panel to end Nevada's status as the only Western state without a registration program for off-road vehicles. |
| 2008 Jun 8 | Over-riding issues - On the way out of the Middle Fork of Calispell Creek, he pointed out a dozen illegal ATV and motorcycle trails splintering off the main road and into the woods. "Addressing that issue is almost out of the question, yet those user-made trails are showing up all over the place," said the 31-year Forest Service veteran. "They lead to a lot of resource damage." |
| 2008 Jun 8 | Forest Lakes to see ban on ATV use - The metro district has used equipment to monitor speed habits in the subdivision, and some drivers have been observed going 50 to 60 mph in the 20 mph zone, Foster said. |
| 2008 Jun 7 | ATV riders violating law, destroying habitat - The problem is systemic on public and private property throughout Georgia. At the Satilla River in Brantley County, all-terrain vehicles have destroyed fish beds and other wildlife habitat and damaged private property, Satilla Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers previously told the Times-Union. |
| 2008 Jun 6 | Bush policies threaten United States Wildlife Refuges - The overwhelming threat to all refuges, PEER says in its report, is, “political pressure to put the interests of wildlife second.” This attitude permits destructive intrusion onto refuges from industrial activities, such as mining and drilling, as well as off-road vehicle abuse, the PEER report says. |
| 2008 Jun 6 | Peace parley: Divergent interests converge in the forest - Assorted gearheads and treehuggers - environmentalists, hunters, horseback riders, birdwatchers, Boy Scouts, backpackers, all-terrain-vehicle riders and four-wheel-drive aficionados - worked side by side in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest on a restoration project. |
| 2008 Jun 5 | New Mexico Forest Closes Area To Target Shooting - "It's aggravating,'' Antonio Gonzales says, shaking his head. "It's convenient for them to just cross into the forest land and blast away and who gives a damn who you're affecting. What if it was them and their kids and their backyard?'' |
| 2008 Jun 5 | N.M. forest closes to target shooting - Freida was always there to greet them at the gate. So when the German shepherd was a no-show, Antonio and Eleanor Gonzales knew something wasn't right. |
| 2008 Jun 4 | PEER tells Senate hearing off-road vehicle regulation going badly on public lands - The national effort to minimize mounting off-road vehicle damage on federal lands by designating routes for motorized traffic is going badly off course, according to congressional testimony released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management are wasting substantial time and money without benefiting streams, wildlife, eroding landscapes and the public who hike, fish and camp on these lands. |
| 2008 June 1 | Long Island students study the environment naturally - The students discovered a drastic reduction in wildlife activity near ATV trails, as well as an increase in invasive plant species and soil erosion throughout the reserve, findings they later presented to local scientists. "This is one of the largest reserves left on the Island and people are coming here and destroying it," said senior Daniel Bechhofer, 17, of Shirley. |
| 2008 May 30 | Off-roaders ravage national forest sites - Two nationally protected forest areas in Woodford have sustained vandalism since mid-April, caused by people driving ATVs, four-wheel drive vehicles and motorcycles on restricted lands, according to an official at the Green Mountain National Forest's Manchester office. |
| 2008 May 30 | OHV Closure Signs Repeatedly and Illegally removed - in preparation for the Memorial Day Weekend trails and signs were checked only to find once again that several important trail closure signs had been removed. New ones were put in place Friday evening only to discover they were once again missing Saturday morning! Additional signs were put in place. All of this was done at the expense of the OHV accounts and potential for additional damage to the state forests and trails. Please stop tampering with the signs: you may be putting someone else at risk of danger or closed trail violations. |
| 2008 May 28 | Setting limits: Forest service has duty to restrict OHV use - Off-highway vehicle users can be their own worst enemies. If irresponsible OHV riders would mend their ways, stay out of sensitive areas and use some common sense instead of riding roughshod over public land, federal land-management agencies wouldn't have to get heavy-handed with restrictions. But the reality is grim. |
| 2008 May 27 | Ex-Forest Service cop fights off-road abuse - He offered three solutions, calling on Congress to: • Double the current level of law enforcement in the field. • Provide more oversight on the agencies in charge and impose a user tax or fee on off-road vehicles. • Impose a forfeiture statute on the driver of an off-road vehicle who endangers people or seriously damages the environment. |
| 2008 May 24 | MAN TAKES ON ATV 'ROGUES' - I had occasion to be run down early last Friday evening, the 16th, by an ATV," Hilton writes in a letter to news outlets and state agencies. "On a trail I had built. On my own land. Literally. Run down. Run over." |
| 2008 May 17 | Off-road enthusiasts care about thrills, not desert - Hundreds of scientific papers describe the damage that off-highway vehicles do to our desert. These documents also describe in detail just how long it takes the land to recover from the damage inflicted by these vehicles. Not one single research paper lists a beneficial effect of OHV traffic on our desert habitat. |
| 2008 May 14 | Reining in Off-Road Vehicle Abuse - Off-road vehicles (ORVs - ATVs, dirt bikes, jeeps, etc.) have become a public lands nuisance of epidemic proportions. The scale of the problem is only beginning to be understood. Some ORV problems are obvious – the visual blight on a scarred hillside, the endless noise that ruins the experience of quiet recreationists, or the litter that proliferates wherever ORVs are common. |
| 2008 May 13 | Repairing damage from off-highway vehicles no easy task - It's very difficult to repair the desert," said Ellen Bilbrey, a spokeswoman for State Parks. "It would take billions dollars." |
| 2008 May 13 | Off-Roaders Booted From Arizona Monument Due to Abuses - A large portion of the Sonoran Desert National Monument will be closed to off-road vehicle traffic for two years to help it recover from the environmental toll of growing motorized abuse, according to agency e-mails released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). This would be the first long-term ORV ban on BLM public lands in Arizona due to natural resource damage. |
| 2008 May 9 | National Monuments, Wildlife, and Archaeological Sites Threatened by New Federal Plan for Northern Arizona - A Bureau of Land Management plan issued yesterday for a remote area north of the Grand Canyon sacrifices wildlife habitat and archaeological sites to off-road vehicles, livestock grazing, and oil and gas development. The 20-year plan spans 2.8 million acres of the Arizona Strip, including the Grand Canyon Parashant and Vermillion Cliffs national monuments. |
| 2008 May 8 | Fed up with ATV trespassers, Burrillville family spikes property, warns riders - Both Matt and his brother Zachary say they have been struck by riders, with one trespasser "popping a wheelie" into Zachary Farley's chest in December of 2006, sending him to the hospital with burns from the ATV's oil tank. Matt Farley was struck in the leg in a similar instance, but the violators escaped again before police arrived. |
| 2008 May 6 | Off-road vehicles pose twin threat to safety, environment - Largely missing from news coverage on ORV safety, however, is ecological damage caused by rampant illegal riding on conservation lands. Go for a hike at most of New Jersey's large parks, preserves and wildlife management areas, and chances are you'll encounter deep, muddy ruts and tire tracks, remnants of ORVs tearing up the earth. |
| 2008 May 4 | Study results fail to change ATV safety bill - In 2004 alone, ATV deaths in the state accounted for economic losses of $120 million, the study said. Hospital trips for ATV-related injuries increased 90 percent from 8,232 in 2000 to 15,630 in 2004. About 43 people per day were treated for ATV injuries in 2004, with 80 percent being males. Hospital bills for injuries during the same time period increased nationally from $109 million to a staggering $374 million. Fractured legs were the most common injury (22 percent). |
| 2008 May 4 | Blind, 10-year-old pony died by dragging in Mercer County - Neighbors said they didn't see anything but some reported hearing ATVs on Wednesday, Dorogy said. The pasture is located at the bottom of a hill and ATV tracks were left throughout the field, Dorogy said. |
| 2008 Apr 27 | My view: A separate peace, split off roaders from others - OHV represents 6 percent of forest visits nationally, and in the Santa Fe National Forest only 3.5 percent. OHV recreationists are a small minority of Forest Service-area recreationists, yet their negative impacts are one of the four worst threats to our forests. |
| 2008 Apr 24 | Not ready for OHVs : Two Excellent Letters to the Editor - The Santa Fe National Forest has the highest density of roads of any in the Southwest: more than 8,000 miles, at least 1,000 unauthorized, built by lawless off-roaders ... There is quite a difference between a 175-pound hiker walking six miles versus a 200-pound machine with knobby tires and a 175-pound rider traveling 75 miles. It would take an army working full time to fix the damage caused by off-roaders in just one summer. |
| 2008 Apr 21 | Ban OHVs for kids - I have had students lose their lives and other students suffer traumatic brain injuries as a result of OHV accidents. While off-roading may be fun or even thrilling, the fact that young people are able to drive off into the hills, unsupervised, with no headgear, and at uncontrolled speeds is comparable to putting loaded guns into their hands. |
| 2008 Apr 11 | Rules of the off-road: Riders, enforcers, environmentalists aim for safe, legal motoring on trails - Enforcement of rules and regulations governing OHVs on trails in state parks and forests should be strengthened, according to a group of state, local, environmental and recreational interests convened by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation. |
| 2008 Apr 10 | Town Takes Costly Measure To Protect Against ATV Damage - Hooper reported to selectmen on Monday night an inspection of the landfill cap showed 60,000 square feet, required to be vegetated under a directive from the state Department of Environmental Protection, was “disturbed or removed solely by ATV activity.” |
| 2008 Apr 9 | REPAIRING DAMAGE FROM OFF-HIGHWAY VEHICLES NO EASY TASK - People have the impression that the Sonoran Desert is tough because it has the spikes and rough stuff, but it is actually very fragile,” said Art Wirtz, district ranger with the Tonto National Forest’s Mesa Ranger District. |
| 2008 Apr 9 | ATVs: Are they harming public lands? - he combination of significantly increased numbers of ATVs, chronically understaffed law enforcement and vast areas of remote public lands has caused a long-simmering issue to hit a boiling point, according to Arizona Game and Fish Department information officer Jim Harken. |
| 2008 Apr 9 | Selectmen back ATV safety bill geared to teens - The bill (H.B. 3592) relative to child safety on all-terrain vehicles has two important sections mandating education and a size limit on the vehicles young riders can operate, |
| 2008 Apr 9 | Letters to the Editor (Santa Fe New Mexican) - regarding "Reining In ORVs" |
| 2008 Apr 9 | ATVs now bound to rules of the road - for years, folks on the Wai'anae Coast have complained about ATV operators flouting the law, harming the environment and endangering the public as they dart onto roadways, tear through beach parks and plow up state shorelines. |
| 2008 Apr 9 | ATVs damage road ditches - When driving some of the outskirts of Bismarck recently, it was hard not to notice how some of the right-of-way ditches are becoming so rutted by ATV and motorcycle traffic. |
| 2008 Apr 8 | ATVs now bound to rules of the road - "It's like the wild, wild west out there," Jordan said. "These guys think their ATVs are regular vehicles on the roadways and they can do anything they want. They don't stop at stop signs; they expect you go get out of their way. |
| 2008 Apr 6 | Letters to the editor: ORVs, forest friends or foes? - citizens reply to last Sunday's Feature article. |
| 2008 Apr 6 | Editorial: Motors on forest land: debate about to ignite - The notion of reducing the vehicles' loud growls to a reasonable level mostly was lost on manufacturers — or muffler-altering owners. |
| 2008 Apr 4 | Atlantic baseball star overcomes devastating ATV crash - Phillips recalls leaving his uncle's house near Reading, Pa., for a short ride, but doesn't know what caused the ATV to flip. No one was there to see it. |
| 2008 Apr 3 | Man From Moore Dies In ATV Accident Near His Home - A Spartanburg County man was killed in an ATV accident just 50 feet from his home Wednesday night. |
| 2008 Apr 1 | Health Secretary Promotes Safety for ATV Riders After Sunday’s Tragic Crash Teenager Died in ATV Accident Near Tijeras |
| 2008 Apr 1 | Congressional Oversight Hearings re: ORV Management; Testimony - On March 13, the Subcommittee On National Parks, Forests And Public Lands held an oversight hearing on “The Impacts Of Unmanaged Off-Road Vehicles On Federal Land.” |
| 2008 Mar 31 | Teen killed in Tijeras-area ATV crash - Authorities have released the name of a teenager killed in an all-terrain vehicle crash on a forest road south of Tijeras. |
| 2008 Mar 30 | National forests: Reining in off-roaders - Cross-country enthusiasts, ranchers and hikers await travel restrictions on national forestland |
| 2008 Mar 25 | State, U.S. raise fines for ATV violations - the federal fines went up in late February. Smith said the penalty for driving a motor vehicle off designated routes on public land is $250. Get caught with a machine in a wilderness area, pay $500. The higher fines and recruitment of state law officers to help overburdened federal rangers catch culprits won't solve what has become a major problem on public lands in the West. |
| 2008 Mar21 | Ritter signs law to fine unlawful off-road-vehicle use - DENVER: Beginning in July, those caught using motorized vehicles on prohibited, public lands will be handed fines and penalties. Gov. Bill Ritter on Thursday signed into law a bill to set these penalties, which include fines ranging from $100 to $200, and suspensions of hunting and fishing licenses for violators also engaging in these activities |
| 2008 Jan 7 | ATV safety could prevent tragedy - The tragic death of a 7-year old Gaston County girl over the weekend has some questioning the safety of all-terrain vehicles. |
| 2008 Mar 9 | Letters to the Editor readers express support for Leo Hubbard's "Reining In OHV Abuse" article. |
| 2006 Jul 26 | Rangers Take On Urban Woes in Wide Open Spaces - Nationwide, there were more attacks and altercations involving forest rangers last year — 477, compared with 34 a decade ago — than any other year, according to government figures released last month by a public employee advocacy group. |
| 2008 Feb 21 | Forest Roads Input Sought - critics say the Forest Service must first involve the public in a science-based approach to identifying roads that are obsolete or harmful to the environment and should be closed. |
| 2008 Feb 05 | Reining In OHV Abuse: Approaching the Moment of Truth - The Forest Service’s draft proposal for the mesa, representing more than a 1,200 percent increase over existing ATV usage, was considered a slap in the face |
| 2008 Jan 28 | Senate urges Forest Service to rein in off-roaders - A coalition of conservationists, landowners and ranchers on Glorieta-Rowe Mesa, southeast of Santa Fe, want to send a message to the U.S. Forest Service: Get those off-roaders under control. |
| 2007 Dec 30 | Surge in Off-Roading Stirs Dust and Debate in West - In the San Juan National Forest here, an iron rod gate is the last barrier to the Weminuche Wilderness, a mountain redoubt above 10,000 feet where wheels are not allowed. But the gate has been knocked down repeatedly, shot at and generally disregarded. Miles beyond it, a two-track trail has been punched into the wilderness by errant all-terrain-vehicle riders who have insisted on going their own way, on-trail or off. |
| 2007 12-29 | My view: Travel Management Plan must rein in OHVs - There needs to be real money for real enforcement, higher penalties for those who run roughshod over our national treasures, and trails closed until there is enforcement in place. Abuse of our public lands and national heritage is not to be borne. |
| 2007 Dec 25 | Off-road vehicles to be banned in parts of Sonoran Desert - Harper and others said riders who have ignored postings and other restrictions, taking their three- or four-wheelers and dirt bikes off designated roads, have carved new trails and mangled often-fragile vegetation. In doing so, they've created ugly, landscape-scarring ruts and other problems for the desert ecology. |
| 2007 Dec 21 | Off Road Vehicle Damage Closes North Carolina Trails - The U.S. Forest Service is closing an off road vehicle trail system in the Nantahala National Forest to limit damage and muddy runoff into trout streams. Intensive use has turned some of the ORV trails into ditches more than seven feet deep. |
| 2007 Dec 17 | Off-Road Vehicles Irk Federal Officials, For Good Reason - Environment is One Cost of "Fun At All Costs" Mentality |
| 2007 Dec 17 | ATV Riders Openly Breaking Forest Rules - I have watched firsthand, near my Colorado property, as members of "responsible" 4WD clubs used chain saws and beefed-up vehicles to create roads over routes that had formerly been stream beds, footpaths and steep hillsides. Over the years, they aggressively pressured our local district ranger to include some of these roads on forest service maps. |
| 2007 Dec 13 | Boost penalties on ORV louts - an age-old rule of society: If you can't behave responsibly, your freedom needs to be limited. It's the first rule laid down by parents in the home and the last rule that rings in the minds of convicted criminals. |
| 2007 Dec 11 | First Ever Survey of Federal Rangers Show ORVs Out of Control, Need for Tougher Penalties - According to one BLM respondent, "90% of ORV users cause damage every day they ride. Most will violate a rule, regulation or law daily." Another from the USFS wrote that "the numbers of off-road vehicles on public lands… are creating resource damage at an alarming rate. This damage is resulting in adverse effects to the land and the wildlife." |
| 2007 Dec 2 | No Need to Blaze More Forest Paths for ATV Riders - the Wilderness Alliance questions just what the Travel Management Rules are promoting — and if they are even enforceable. |
| 2007 Nov 26 | ATV use may be cut in national forest - reining in cross-country ATV activity is becoming necessary because: Silting of streams, damage to fish habitat and harassment of elk herds caused by ATV riders traveling cross-country and cruising roads. Resource damage to environmentally sensitive spots. In the picturesque Elkhorn Mountains near Baker City, ATV riders sometimes veer off the roads and tear up meadows, he said. Safety issues. Mixing ATVs with bigger cars and trucks can be risky to ATV riders. At least 100 miles of existing forest roads put ATVs at special risk, he said. |
| 2007 Nov 24 | KSFR News: More on off-road vehicles in the Santa Fe National Forest (audio) - an excellent news piece. Note that there will be a meeting for the Cochiti area people on December 4, 6-8pm, at the Pena Blanca Community Center. The Forest Service will be there to present the TMR and discuss the issues with the people. |
| 2007 Nov 22 | STOPPING OFF-ROAD VEHICLE ABUSE! YOUR CHANCE TO GET INVOLVED - Two meetings are being held on Saturday, December 1st for conservation minded folks in southern New Mexico and El Paso to learn more about problems with ORVs, the Travel Management Rule. Alamogordo: 1pm to 3pm at the Hampton Inn (1295 Hamilton Road, just off White Sands Boulevard, south end of town near where Hwy 70 and Hwy 54 meet). Las Cruces: 5:30 to 7:30pm at the Southwest Environmental Center (275 North Downtown Mall) |
| 2007 Sep 20 | Key Wildlife Areas At Risk in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest - The Apache-Sitgreaves deserves the utmost protection. With more than 8,100 miles of roads already in place on the forest, it's shocking, not to mention illegal, that the Forest Service would even consider opening more of the forest to off-road vehicle use |
| 2007 Nov 19 | Who Owns Montana? - ATV and equestrian use in the Pryor Mountains |
| 2007 Nov 14 | INCOMPATIBLE - We recently had an invasion of ATVers, who raced on the county and forest roads, almost driving an 80-year-old resident off the road, motoring across private and forest lands, across wetlands and up fragile hillsides. |
| 2007 Nov 8 | National grassland roads likely to undergo changes - Changes are coming for the 2,000 miles of roads and trails in the Thunder Basin National Grasslands, including closing some of the roads, converting them to motorized and non-motorized trails. |
| 2007 Nov 6 | Hunters on ATVs becoming problematic - Forty-four hunters have been cited for unlawful ATV use in Oregon this year, including nine who were driving an ATV with a loaded weapon, 10 who were riding on closed roads, and one for riding in an area closed to protect wildlife habitat. |
| 2007 Nov 4 | Trouble On The Trails - Nature is under wheeled assault, experts said. "It shouldn't be like this," said Frank Machler, off-highway vehicle coordinator for the U.S. Forest Service's Carson Ranger District. "It's just invasive is what it is. It's destructive." |
| 2007 Nov 1 | New Mexico Public Lands Action Network Seeks To Curb Reckless Riders In New Mexico - New statewide group to partner with local groups and individuals to curtail destruction of public lands by reckless and irresponsible off-road vehicle riders. |
| 2007 Oct 31 | Respect The Land, The ATV Menace, Crime on Wheels, and other letters in the Santa Fe Reporter - The Oct 31 - Nov 6 issue of the SFR contained five letters replying to Mr. Perry's letter in the October 17-23 issue where he claimed we have "taken the extremist view of prohibitionists and Nazis." |
| 2007 Oct 24 | Sitting Around, Wrong Target, Not Natural - readers reply to Mr. Perry's "extremist" charges and express their views on Off-Highway Vehicles. |
| 2007 Oct 19 | Conservation group gains free access to Forest Service records - A conservation group won its two-year battle to get information without charge on the damage caused by off-road vehicles and unmaintained roads on national forests around the West. |
| 2007 Oct 3 | Say No to ATVs, Right to Be Wrong, Man vs. Machine - The October 3-9 issue of the SFR contained three letters in response to the September 26 "Down and Dirty" article. |
| 2007 Oct 3 | Hikers: Not enough quiet space in Hills - Norbeck Society organizer not happy with Forest Service news release |
| 2007 Oct 1 | All-terrain vehicles restricted to only some terrain - Note the spin typical of USA Today: "off-road vehicle users make more than 12 million visits a year." Wow - that sounds like a huge number. However, the truth is those visits amount to about 6% of the recreational visits. A very small number. [editor] |
| 2007 Sep 28 | Off-highway vehicles taking a toll - all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and four-wheel drives tear across the landscape. "It's so degraded. You're not going to find any wildlife here." |
| 2007 Sep 26 | Down and Dirty: Battle over ATVs in the woods grows nasty - “Motorized recreation is the latest, greatest and growing threat to our national forests”. |
| 2007 Sep 23 | Letters to the editor - Hills are alive with off-highway vehicle traffic... at about 12,400 feet having lunch, when all of a sudden we heard roaring motors. |
| 2007 Sep 18 | Residents fear off-road vehicle tourism - About a dozen residents appeared before the Santa Fe County Commission Sept. 11 to oppose increased all-terrain vehicle use on Glorieta/Rowe Mesa |
| 2007 Sep 15 | Sportsmen groups want different land management - the coalition is calling for more emphasis on fish and wildlife habitat, restrictions on cross-country travel, limitations on open roads, strong enforcement... |
| 2007 Sep 14 | Off-highway vehicles at odds with forest health - The forest and our relationship to its ecology will determine our economy. |
| 2007 Sep 14 | My View: Fight to keep out OHVs gearing up in Glorieta - I am horrified to learn of the Forest Service proposal and initial plan to sacrifice Glorieta-Rowe mesa to the OHV lobby under the guise that those activities already exist in the area. |
| 2007 Sep 14 | Arizona: Off-roaders taking a toll on public land - Off-road vehicles compress the desert soil, leaving less room for water to get in and seedlings to take root. When plants can't grow, erosion and runoff increases. |
| 2007 Sep 11 | Wilderness motorcycle charge reduced - The motorcycle hit me and the man landed off to one side on top of a friend... |
| 2007 Sep 2 | Off road and out of line - The phenomenal explosion in the number of all-terrain vehicles has been a curse... |
| 2007 Aug 13 | ATV drivers invading roadless forests - Renegade ATV trails are regarded as one of the biggest threats to pristine wildlife... |
| 2007 Jul 30 | Off-Road Vehicles Rev Up Controversy - Off-road vehicles now pose the single biggest threat to America's public lands... |
| 2007 Jul 25 | Federal Judge Dismisses Off-Road Vehicle Suit in Death Valley National Park - Private group can’t turn Surprise Canyon creekbed into highway. |
| 2007 Jun 30 | Should you be able to drive anywhere you damn well please? - An alliance of local officials and timber, mining, and off-road-vehicle lobbyists—along with their friends in the White House—have dug up a Civil-War-era statute... |
| 2005 Dec | Lawsuit Alleges Off-Road Vehicle Damage to National Parks |
| 2001 Feb 10 | Hantavirus Common in Mice Near Off-Road Recreation Area - The scientists said more research is needed to determine if the high infection rate among deer mice near the federal Bureau of Land Management's Little Sahara Recreation Area was caused by ORV traffic that has created dirt roads and trails. They theorize that when ORVs denude rodent habitat, the animals are crowded into remaining areas of vegetation, leading to increased fighting, biting and scratching that allows the virus to be spread among mice when saliva and blood enter their wounds. |
| 2004 Nov 7 | As More N.M. Teens Die, Legislator Says ATV-Safety Bill Can't Wait - Shortly after her all-terrain-vehicle safety bill stalled in the final hours of the 2004 Legislature in February, Sen. Dede Feldman wondered aloud how many more New Mexico kids would die before she had a chance to try again next year. Four months later, 14-year-old Andy Carbajal of Valencia County was killed when he was thrown off an ATV in Mexico. |
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