Smile for the camera!

[UtahFire]

Please let your friends know that groups like the Sierra Club and SUWA have people out this summer taking pictures of OHV users and documenting "abuses". They are constructing a "photographic database of ORV impacts" to be used to convince policy makers and courts to close areas to OHV use.

http://utah.sierraclub.org/ogden/ORV/
http://www.suwa.org/page.php?page_id=185

I was up American Fork Canyon the other night and saw two women taking pictures of Jeeps, ATVs and Dirt Bikes on the Forest Lake trail. They were set up at an area where a bypass had been created to go around an area which had received significant spring runoff damage. Most of the vehicles were using this bypass.

Let's stay on the trails folks.

 

[PierCed_3]

I just looked at the one for Box Elder county and I don't get it, they closed the trails and put up that large fence... most of those trails they are showing have been closed and are already being filled in with weeds and other vegitation. Why are they trying to use this as ammo for thier cause? It has been taken care of. Obviously nothing was marked in this area AND no one who rides on these trails is educated on the land use issues. When I was younger I saw a trial and I would go up it, down it, whatever... If it wasn't posted it is presumed open right??? Now I know differently but how do you get the word out? There are a TON of trails here in the BE county area that have no postings on it and have obviously been used for years. How do you find out what is open and what is not? Why aren't these trails posted if they are closed?

I don't understand some of thier issues, where they gated off the area it is already covered in wild grass and weeds. This area was NOT posted as closed land..

I understand the impact it has but why beat a dead horse... it is taken care of.