Q&A

LATEST Q&A

• Professionals for Managed Recreation Formed

  The new group?s mission statement is, ?Professionals for Managed Recreation is committed to encouraging, promoting and expanding sustainable OHV recreation through training, advocacy and on-the-ground management activities."

  May. 13, 2009

• View from the Locked Gate

  The gal in uniform with the big gun on her hip smiled and waved as she installed the recessed pad lock on the gate. I guess she thought we were happy about the road being closed.

  May. 12, 2009

• The Future Is Calling

  Many of us are "gray hairs" and many are working so hard that burnout may cause some premature aging. I worry that not enough young folks are taking up the torch and carrying the flame. When the future calls, will we have folks there to answer?

  Apr. 02, 2009
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  A Cause We Can All Rally Around

  We need to get kids outside! Recreation groups, land managers, youth organizations, health providers and educators are starting to get serious about this crisis: Kids spend far too little time outdoors enjoying physical activity. It's a cause we can all r

  Jan. 29, 2009

• Your Views: If these areas are actually pristine, designation of wilderness would no longer be needed

  As you know, for an area to be designated by Congress as wilderness, the area in question must be deemed pristine.

  Apr. 11, 2008

• Randy Moore: Managing OHV use in national forests is top priority

  But as motor vehicle use has expanded, the impacts have also expanded.

  Apr. 07, 2008

• ARIZONA--Guest opinion: Time to restart off-highway reform bill

  Rarely do wide-ranging groups such as all-terrain vehicle riders, hunters, sportsmen, conservation groups, environmentalists, gun enthusiasts and state agencies all come together to support a piece of legislation.

  Apr. 03, 2008

• Time to Wake Up Redux

  Everyone that has been around the OHV community for more than a minute knows a story or stories about people recklessly driving or riding where it is prohibited or causing destruction to public land...

  Mar. 26, 2008

• Editorial: Revving up to help repair Eldorado forest land

  Off-road enthusiasts have a constructive role to play in preserving a key resource

  Mar. 22, 2008

• Why Is Everyone Lying About Energy?

  The problem is not a lack of known reserves of oil. The problem is the way the lack of knowledge by the consuming public is being exploited.

  Mar. 16, 2008

• Tim Cacy: Clarifying facts of closures at Greenhorn

  The majority of OHV use occurs on private, not BLM or USFS controlled public lands. These are old mining areas...

  Mar. 05, 2008

• El Mirage Image

  We are surrounded by good riding and 4X4 areas, but I would have to suggest the El Mirage OHV area.

  Feb. 28, 2008

• Access to Land Dominant Issue for New Mexico Off-Highway Vehicle Alliance

  NMOHVA is a statewide incorporated alliance of motorized off-highway vehicle enthusiasts that promotes responsible off-highway vehicle recreation...

  Feb. 28, 2008

• OREGON--Line in the sand

  President?s Day weekend traditionally signals the start of the off-highway vehicle riding season at the Oregon Dunes

  Feb. 24, 2008

• CALIFORNIA--Reader's letter: Off-roaders have not ruined land

  Our favorite OHV basher is on his anti-off-road soapbox again. The man has no shame.

  Feb. 06, 2008

• Open Letter: Road Closure Comments to USFS

  Being on an island with no bridge or road access to any other community, and very few roads in the developed area of Ketchikan, these logging roads represent a much needed outlet for hiking, hunting, berry picking, bark gathering, mountain biking, motorcy

  Jan. 31, 2008

• Repeal unfair federal use fees

  Two Western senators Republicans Mike Crapo of Idaho and Max Baucus of Montana have introduced the Fee Repeal and Expanded Access Act of 2007.

  Jan. 01, 2008

• ATV enthusiasts fear sport is in jeopardy

  The number of dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles nearly tripled across the country since 1993, a phenomenon critics and land managers said comes at increasing cost to a vulnerable landscape.

  Nov. 28, 2007

• Let the public use the land--Proper use of four-wheelers should be allowed

  Responsible "off-roading" has been a great tool for people to see nature that would otherwise be out of reach.

  Nov. 09, 2007

• Friends of the Earth are Nobody's Friends

  This Mother of All Green Groups has devoted itself to finding every way possible to make our lives miserable...

  Nov. 09, 2007