Everyone that has been around the OHV community for more than a minute knows a story or stories about people recklessly driving or riding where it is prohibited or causing destruction to public land...

NOHVCC Forest Service Route Designation Workshops Quit Complaining and Become Part of the Solution Apr 1, 2007 By: Brad Ullrich

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) is under a mandate to complete their Travel Management Plans within the next couple of years. They are looking for public input in the process, specifically when it comes to Route Designation. But, unfortunately most of the OHV community is lost when it comes to working with the various government agencies that manage our public lands.

From Somewhere in the Four Corners Sep 1, 2006 By: ORC STAFF

Conservative commentator and pundit Alan Caruba of The National Anxiety Center has another winner on his hands. Alan's first book, "Warning Signs", a compilation of op-eds and essays that was released a couple of years ago was welcomed by his readers as a handy way to access some of his best writings up to that point. "Right Answers" is in the same format, a collection of Alan's more recent work broken down into several categories.

Unreal. Somehow fall is here again. No matter what, it seems that my favorite season here in the southwest just rolls around every year! With fall, the high desert where I live in the four corners area becomes a different place than it was a few weeks ago. The leaves will start turning very shortly in the San Juans, the evenings and mornings are almost cool enough to need a jacket, and wheeling on the rocks will once again be bearable.

It seems like just a very short while ago that I was writing about Al Gore, and what would happen to motorized off-highway recreation and multiple use in general if he were elected president. Thankfully we have not experienced what I predicted would be the result of Gore winning the election, because if he had won here's a short look at what we would be facing:

I just found out I'm not crazy, no early onset of Alzheimer's either. Brian Hawthorne of the Blue Ribbon Coalition just confirmed this for me; Brian I owe you, I was about to talk to my wife about committing me.

(NOTE: Over the past several years the closure of the trails in the Robledo Mountains near Las Cruces, New Mexico and the subsequent legal action has been the subject of much discussion among four wheelers. But, in all this discussion, no one has adequately been able to lay out all the facts of the case in the order in which they happened, and with an explanation that is understandable to the average four wheeler. So, after digging though the small mountain of paper that constitutes the filings in this case we are providing this summary of what has transpired over the past several years for those that are interested or have just been totally confused by all that has happened. We can only hope that the saga is not over just yet. Please feel free to copy this summary as you see fit for distribution to club members and other interested parties.)

What's the land use guy doing writing about the war in Iraq? Not sure, but I feel like doing it anyway.

Trails Really in My Backyard Nov 1, 2003 By: ORC STAFF

In a recent edition of the Blue Ribbon Coalition magazine there was an article titled ?Trails In Our Backyard? by the BRC Executive Director Clark L. Collins that got me thinking about the trails that really are in my backyard. I live in an area outside Aztec, NM that is surrounded by approximately 1 ? million acres of Bureau of Land Management managed land, and my yard backs up to some of that land.