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[08 Sep 2004|02:17am] |
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Of course it is all okay as long as people can play with their toys. Right???
FOREST SERVICE PLAN TO REDUCE ORV DAMAGE FALLS SHORT
Off-road vehicle (ORV) use is exploding across the country.
Since 1972, the number of dirt bike, all-terrain vehicle (ATV),
and snowmobile use has grown sevenfold, to 36 million in 2000.
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Nowhere are the impacts of the off-road armada felt more acutely
than in the America's 155 National Forests. The forests today
are crisscrossed with 60,000 miles of unplanned, unauthorized
("renegade") ORV trails, to the point that Forest Service chief
Dale Bosworth has identified ORVs as one of the four greatest
threats to the National Forests (along with fire, invasive
species, and habitat fragmentation). [2]
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