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We believe reckless ORV riding is causing a growing problem of lawlessness across America, including ruining public lands, trespassing on private property, and vandalism. People are getting fed up. Read what off-road vehicle riders across America are saying. "We can't continue to utilize the Black Hills in the fashion we have, particularly in the past 10 years. Just because the hill is there doesn't mean we need to climb it and produce another trail. Those ruts are there for years." -- Tom Blair, ORV rider and owner of Whistler Gulch Campground in Deadwood, "Changes coming for ATV riders", Rapid City Journal (10/18/09) "If we have all these bad apples digging up the mud all over the place...pretty soon no one is going to have a spot to ride." -- Dan Scholl, President Eastern Morrison County 4-Wheeler Club, "Part I: Renegade riders," Minneapolis Star Tribune (9/15/08) "I love ATVs, but like everything, they have a time and a place. Personally, I'm 73 years old and love to hike and hunt." -- Bob Humphrey, rider, "Speaking Up", Eastman's Hunting Journal (Feb.-Mar. '10) "I have an ATV. I understand the joy of the sport. But it doesn't take many people not following the rules to turn the public off." -- Vermont State Senate President pro tem Peter Shumlin, "ATV rule splits solons", Rutland Herald (1/10/10) "Well of course you have to be respectable about it. You can't just be an idiot, you can't go and do “I don’t want people riding off the marked trails. It destroys the bikes and destroys the desert. Leave no trace behind, and pack it in, pack it out.” -- Steve Schwarzdach, rider and owner of Wickenburg (AZ) ATV rental company, "Wickenburg ATV rents quads, more for desert fun", The Wickenburg Sun (10/3/09) "Some people are stringing wire across trails. My buddy ended up in the hospital for a couple of weeks," -- Dan Buske, rider, of West Milford, "New law to increase opportunities, and costs, for N.J. ATV operators", The Star Ledger (1/24/10) "People go out and ride wherever they want now." -- Jason Shelley, rider, "Opinions vary on Payson off-road track", Deseret News (1/28/10) "I have run into these guys myself. They have cussed me out and kicked up dirt in my face." -- Ray Pessa, president of Friends of Giant Rock, "Two ways of life collide in Wonder Valley", Los Angeles Times (1/5/10) "It costs the local Forest Service district and county taxpayers thousands of dollars to restore pieces of land chewed up by four-wheel drive vehicles and their drivers....For law-abiding off-roaders...every mudding incident potentially restricts innocent drivers. The Forest Service may be forced to close trails to let a meadow recover and that limits the off-roading community.'We're upset. We lose trails because somebody else does something stupid. This is common sense." -- Ron Dunn Jr., Off-Roader, "Dirty Mudders," The Daily Record (5/28/08) "Over the past few years, use has increased virtually everywhere. One thing that happens when you have more use is you have more problems, just by virtue of the volume." -- Russ Ehnes of the National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council, "Long Timelines, Enforcement Challenges Hinder OHV Regulation Efforts," New York Times (6/11/09) "'No Motorized Vehicles Beyond This Point' means exactly that; either park it or go home. It only takes one lazy idiot to ruin it for everyone else." -- J. Theien, rider, "Speaking Up", Eastman's Hunting Journal (Feb.-Mar. '10) "In the right circumstances, [impounding ORVs] would be something worth considering, from a township perspective, because illegal riding must stop," -- Don McClure, Pennsylvania Off Highway Vehicle Association, "Monroeville aims to rein in ATVs," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (11/19/08) |
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"I love ATVs, but like everything, they have a time and a place. Personally, I'm 73 years old and love to hike and hunt." -- Bob Humphrey, rider, "Speaking Up", Eastman's Hunting Journal (Feb.-Mar. '10) |







