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  • California Coastal Commission Bans ORVs

    George Wuerthner

    Dust and air pollution from particulates is a threat to the health of nearby residents. Photo George Wuerthner    On March 18th, the California Coastal Commission appeared to settle a long-simmering dispute over Thrillcraft use of the Oceano Dunes Vehicular Recreation Area near Pismo Beach, California. For forty years, the Coastal Commission has been arguing…

  • Lessons From The Effort To Designate The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness

    George Wuerthner

    The Lake Plateau, part of the 900,000-acre plus Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness. Photo by George Wuerthner Years ago, I moved to Livingston, Montana. Livingston strategically lies at the northwest corner of the Custer Gallatin National Forest’s Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness (known as AB Wilderness). One of the factors that attracted me to Livingston was the AB Wilderness.…

  • Some Montana hunters are faking handicaps to get special privileges

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say rules on PTHV permits must be tightened up- I’ve seen it most of my adult life — perfectly healthy folks competing with one another to claim a handicap so they won’t have to walk. Whether it is access to a good parking place, or using a vehicle on…

  • Outdoor recreation: Two-wheeled off-road safer than ATVs

    Ralph Maughan

    Review shows ATV crashes much more likely to kill or injure than dirt bikes- This is probably a big surprise. It is to me. I broke my collarbone on a dirt bike way back in ’84.  I didn’t ride them again. Surprise: Two Wheels Safer Than Four in Off-Road Riding and Racing, Study Finds. ScienceDaily.

  • Western dust storms are increasing

    Ralph Maughan

    Livestock, off-road vehicles, oil and gas road development are major culprits- The Western United States is naturally dusty, right? With the exception of some dry lake beds and parts of very hot deserts this is not true. Soil is held in place from the wind by vegetation and rock. Anything that reduces the ground cover…

  • Off-road vehicle use fuels tension, violence across U.S.

    Ralph Maughan

    Most violence over private property and those who try to enforce the law- This is according to USA Today. By Emily Bazar.

  • Off-road rage

    Brian Ertz

    More people, more off-roaders (50 million?!), more off-road rage – standardNET

  • [Utah] Off-road activist says he's tossed in the towel

    Ralph Maughan

    Off-road activist [Huck] says he’s tossed in the towel. He declares, after ruling, he’ll no longer fight wilderness designations. By Patty Henetz. (link expired) The Salt Lake Tribune. Note the SLT link died, but a found an active link at an off-road activist site. “It’s like battling the Borg: Resistance is futile,” Huck said during…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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