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GREAT OLD BROADS FOR WILDERNESS
649 E. College Drive
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OFF-ROAD VEHICLE ACTIVITY
ORV riders have increased seven-fold in less than 30 years. It is not just the exponential increase in riders that is creating problems on our public lands; the power and speed of ORVs have also multiplied, thus creating the potential for motorized access to previously inaccessible backcountry. The range, speed, noise and footprint of an ORV can cause substantial damage to wild, fragile ecosystems and have significant impacts on water quality, wildlife, and other users of the public lands who prefer quiet unspoiled landscapes.
Public land agencies at all levels – local, state and federal – are attempting to develop balanced and responsible management plans, but the agencies do not have the staff to monitor the vast lands impacted by motorized use, or to enforce the established rules. Thus, Great Old Broads for Wilderness has launched Broads Healthy Lands Project (BHLP), an objective, quantifiable ORV monitoring and database system to document all types of impacts to public lands travel corridors. Increased monitoring of our public lands is essential in order to provide land management agencies with accurate, thorough and reproducible information that they can use to create and enforce balanced, effective management plans. It is our hope that the data citizen volunteers collect along travel corridors, both baseline conditions and follow-up monitoring, will assist agencies in preserving our wild roadless public lands and the variety of benefits they provide for wildlife habitat, watershed protection, and quality recreational experiences. For more
information on Broads position on ORVs, click
here.
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