ATV Florida Forum

Found this today,


http://www.naturaltrails.org/about-us/issues-were-working-on/us-forest-service/

The hunters are also into this -

Off-Road Vehicles Diminish Traditional Hunting Opportunities

The ever increasing number of dirt bikes, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and other off-road vehicles and their many impacts on National Forests and Bureau of Land Management lands has reached a critical level. Uncontrolled or otherwise unregulated off-road vehicle use damages the land, threatens wildlife and adversely affects millions of people who recreate on those lands, including hunting sportsmen.

Professional wildlife managers across the country are increasingly speaking out about the negative impacts of uncontrolled ATV use on big game and critical habitat. Many warn that unless common sense limits are applied, including keeping some critical habitat vehicle-free and restricting vehicles to designated routes, quality hunting opportunities are all but certain to continue to decline. At the same time, traditional hunters are losing hunting opportunities in areas they have hunted for years as ATVs push into the most remote corners of our public lands.

With all this negativity do you really think the ONFA is on our side??

  Pitting us against each other, good strategy. The hunters forget that they use ATVs to hunt when they enthusiastically "work with" hunters to close down those trails to ATVers. Then come hunting season, when they want to use those ATVs, they find they can't.

  Or, better yet, they get to use them during hunting season only, leaving the rest of us out and keeping ATVers fighting with the hunters and ignoring what "they" are doing the rest of the time. Bann together, stand strong. Don't let them pit one against the other. Stand for each other, work with each other, and come to respect each other's wants/needs.