6 Steps You Can Take to Keep Trails Open

[Guest KTMrad]

Chris Hargon asked me to put this on the message board ---Stewards of the Sequoia Six Steps to keep multiple use trails open. Please get involved before we lose all our trails !! Approximately 20% of all households in California enjoy off road vehicle recreation. If half of those people got involved, like you are doing right now, we would be the most powerful political group in California today. Lets get them involved. Every dirt bike rider should be able to do the first three or four steps. It would be great if more of us could do all six steps. 1) Use a quiet pipe & ride with consideration for others & tread lightly 2) Get your riding buddies to do the six steps & use peer pressure to politely tell rogue riders who ride irresponsibly, that they are causing the closure of our riding trails 3) Join CORVA & Blue Ribbon & a local club. We each have many thousands of dollars invested in our riding toys. Many riders think little of spending a hundred dollars on a new gadget for their bikes. Instead of buying one of those gadgets, we each need to invest at least a hundred dollars a year to help keep trails open, so we can continue to ride. With all our help these OHV groups can file lawsuits & work with legislators to protect our riding. 4) Adopt your favorite trails through your local club & volunteer to work on a trail at least one day a year. Get to know your land manager. 5) Write letters to forest service or BLM in support of trail building & maintenance funding as well as comment on proposed trail designations & closures If any of your trails have been closed ask the Forest Ranger to provide you with the written Record of Decision as well Environmental documentation & documentation showing that the required public process NEPA was fulfilled. In many cases trails are closed without the proper process. In that case they must be reopened & the process must be redone. In some cases trails are just closed, without any process. If you object the trail will be reopened. 6) Meet your public representatives & tell them about yourself, your family & your recreation. Tell them of the need to keep trails open & to open more trails to reduce the impact on the land & to provide adequate recreation for families & children. Together we can preserve family recreation for future generations For more information email sequoiastewards@earthlink.net PROMOTING RESPONSIBLE MOTORIZED RECREATION & ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP_________________