General land access and closure article

[sirhk100]

This is written towards the dirt biker perspective but it's a good read for any and all offroad enthusiasts! It touches on a couple good ideas that I've said for a long time now. In my opinion we need to stop segregating ourselves from each other. The truck and buggy racers have as much to loose in the fight as the Jeep and 4X4 guys, the dirt bikers, the atv people, the snow mobile groups, etc... Power is truly in numbers and rather then having a dirt bike club or a jeep club people need to start banding together as offroaders in general and fight to keep the whooped out roads as accessible as the rockier then crap roads and the single track stuff along with smooth scenic back roads. We all are loosing! I like in this article the mention of forming one group to pole all the resources together. It's probably only a dream as I tend to find myself on the apathy side as mentioned in this article but I figured I'd pass along the read anyways. It's pretty long but is worth your time.

Khris

Near the bottom of the text is a link to open the full article in a .pdf format.

http://www.dirtrider.com/news/legal/...thy/index.html

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[Beebe]

Great Article....worth passing around, I've sent it to my facebook and will post around on other forums...if it's still legal ;-)

[sirhk100]

Bump for what's still a great article!

[inyonative]

As our population increased and new roads have allowed access for all types of adventurers (including both our critics and us), conflicting demand for the same resource has also increased. Those signs or citations the now angry and apathetic guy who just wants to maintain his family riding tradition is complaining about may just be formalizing a rule that’s been in place for years but only recently been publicized or enforced.

what he said