Post by ljdude on Mar 17, 2013 20:28:27 GMT -8
Originally posted on PNW4WDA by Randy Drake...
Commenting on the project: Ochoco Summit Trail System #26807
The Forest Service values public input. Comments received, including respondents’ names and addresses, will become part of the public record for this proposed action. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, anonymous comments will not provide the agency with the ability to provide you with project updates. The Forest Service wishes to provide you with as many opportunities as possible to learn about our activities.
E-mail comments: pacificnorthwest-ochoco@fs.fed.us
addressing same tytle and address as below.
Submitting Hard Copy Comments please send it to:
Dede Steele
Ochoco National Forest
Ochoco Summit Trail System #26807
3160 N.E. 3rd Street
Prineville, OR, 97754
Please take a minute and comment on this project in Central Oregon!
4x4's are being left out in their prefered alternative-I have listed over 30 points that you might agree with and make comment to them on.
Ochoco Summit Trail System #26807
This is fairly simple all you need to write is that you are in favor of Alternative IV with exceptions: See the numbers and pick something that you are passionate about and write.
If you only want to write a short paragraph (rewrite this paragraph in your own words) just say as a Class II user you are in favor of Alternative IV as it allows you the longest time of seasonal use and you would like even longer use such as April 1-November 31 on all difficult to extreme trails. You want access to the Ochoco National Forest all year around on motorized routes including when they are snow covered. State you want more miles from difficult to extreme and a range of opportunities as you utilize the Class II trails. A 100 miles of easy, 75 miles of difficult, 50 miles of most difficult, 20 miles of extreme at least (pick your numbers) miles of additional Class II trails needs to be added to Alternative IV. As this will be the only place to four-wheel in the Ochoco National Forest for many years to come. You need to state as you drive (However many miles from home) 250 miles to wheel here and would like at least a week of trails from difficult to extreme to enable user satisfaction while using a Class II OHV system. You would like a camping site that would interconnect to all trails without moving your camp from the east to the west side for day runs. Thank the Ochoco National Forest for all the easy roads but explain these types of roads need to be left open year around and are not really 4-wheeling why even a blue Toyota Prius (pick a two wheel car) could drive these easy roads. Roads are not Class II trails! In order for me to have a meaningful outing in the Ochoco National Forest I need Class II trails for outdoor recreation. Please will you add my comments to Alternative IV in the writing of the final decision? If you just write this make each sentence a standalone paragraph or group them to suit yourself. Repeat yourself at this time. I favor Alternative IV but please consider my comments for Class II use. Thank you for allowing me to comment etc… and close with your complete name and address.
If you choose to write a longer letter; feel free to do so. Just simple state I am in favor of Alternative IV etc…. with the following exceptions which need to be added to Alternative IV in the Final Decision. Below are the exceptions you can pick from. Be sure to note they are exceptions to the Alternative you have chosen. Do not pick Alternative III as it leaves you with no Class II trail Pick one or more:
1. The season for Class II use is to short needs to be extended to at least April 1-November 31 on all Class II trail from difficult to extreme.
2. Class II user are the largest class of OHVs in the United States. Class II user are anything over 800 pounds and width is less than 80 inch (This documents description of Class II). This includes all vehicle entering the Ochoco Summit area; list as many as you can think of hunters, fishermen, mushroom gathers, sightseers, those out enjoying a drive in the forest, berry pickers, hikers on the way to trailhead, Etc… are in a Class II vehicle which could use a Class II trail.
3. In the Ochoco Summit Trail System has listed OHV areas outside of the Ochoco National Forest but these areas have nothing but roads, shared use roads/trails and offer no range of opportunities for Class II. What they offer are just easy routes that a Honda car could drive. There is but 24 miles of true Class II trials East of the Cascades and this area should change that for all of Central Oregon. Prineville is the closest town and three needs to be a true Class II trail system just as there has been for over a hundred years to provide this community access for a complete range of Class II opportunities; roads are not trails; shared trails rarely are Class II trails. A range of opportunities would be trail from easy to extreme for over for the entire 212 miles of OHV trails for Class II vehicles.
4. The description of Class II vehicle is stated in the Federal Register CFRs and the FS Handbook in this document it is just made up. We would like to see the definition changed to any vehicle on four tires, over 1800 pounds and is over 50 inches wide per the 2013 Oregon OHV guide. If it is trail width that you are trying to establish for Class II trails would you please use 84 inches from outside of tread width to outside of tread width of the vehicles tires. As Class II vehicles include pickups, rails, buggies, SUV/all-wheel drive vehicles, jeeps, cars etc… their width varies but a full size pickup is generally 80 plus inches wide tread width to tread width and this vehicle is the largest that should be allowed on forest trails. Trail width must be a little more than the expected vehicle that is driving the trails surface. Again the FS Handbook list the trail size for Class II and that is the size that should be used for Class II.
5. There needs to be as many miles for Class II user as any other user in the Ochoco Summit Trail System motorized or non-motorized.
6. It is discrimination against Class II user not to allow them the same time of use as other users.
7. It is discrimination against Class II use not to allow them the same amount of mileage of true Class II trails as other users. All other forest users are getting specific designed trails that will allow them a meaningful experience while using the Ochoco National Forest. In the preferred alternative Class II gets zero in Alternative IV will please change that.
8. Class II user should be able to use ever mile of the trail system that is allowed (max at this time is 212 miles of hopeful trails).
9. There is not enough mileage of trails to provide more than a half day outing. Need more trails mileage. This is wrong that all other user non-motorized and motorized user is getting hundreds of miles and Alternatives for Class II is not. Class II should have the same if not more miles as other forest users. Class II is the largest class of OHVs therefore our miles of Class II trails must be as large if not largest. We need more miles with a full range of alternatives not just easy shared use routes.
10. There needs to be at least 50 (add your own number) of difficult trail to extreme trails to enable a meaningful experience within the Ochoco Summit Trails system while operating a Class II OHV.
11. Every user group; non-motorized or motorized are getting trails that provide a meaningful experience why have you remove Class II from the preferred alternative? Is this not discrimination of US citizens? I have read the discrimination policy on the front cover page and it state the US Department of Agriculture is prohibited from discrimination. Than why is this entire document discriminating against a single class of user know as Class II OHVs?
12. Kathleen Klein has been at meetings with the local four-wheel drive users and it was stated in her presence that there is no miles of challenging four-wheel drive trails in the Ochoco National Forest yet there is 0 miles of trail in the Preferred Alternative for Class II users. This is wrong.
13. Kathleen Klein was at the United States Represented Greg Walden meeting in Prineville and many residents stated they want the Level I roads and User created routes left open in the Ochoco National forest. Ms. Klein has not used her resource to reopen these routes to Class II user who have used these routes for over a hundred years and have been our trails.
14. As the Responsible Official for this document she is aware that there are zero miles of true Class II trail within the preferred Alternative and there are no trails within the Ochoco National Forest for Class II use.
15. Per Kent Connaughton the Region 6 Regional Forester, Tracy Beck and Gale Throop state that any closed road (Level I or user created route) can be reopened particularly if there is a public need and Class II has a justifiable need for true Class II trail from difficult to extreme. Kathleen Klein has within her office has the opportunity to work with the OHV community and reopen all that is suitable for OHVs particularly Class II. At this time 669 miles of Level I roads are closed that the OHV community particularly Class II user would like consideration for reopening particularly Class II. This is within the scope of this project and no other EA or NEPA would have to be done. Also some of the Level I roads could be reclassified as Level II roads and thus would be reopened under Level II designation possible providing a difficult Class II trail.
16. There are insufficient Alternatives for Class II. Sufficient Alternatives should be a thousand miles of easy routes, 500 miles of difficult routes, 250 miles of most difficult and at least 20 miles of extreme routes. This is an OHV trails system that is being built or the utilization of old roads. There should be at least a week of wheeling for Class II users.
17. All our trails are open for all users non-motorized and motorized but we can’t use all the non-motorized trails; this is discriminations and also the non-motorized user will claim conflicts against them are occurring. While using our motorized trails and motorized areas they will claim unjust reasons to close motorized use from public lands.
18. Personally Class II trails can be open to anyone who wants to use the trail. Any human or animal can use our trails is our motto just work with us to keep the trail open for our use as well.
19. There is insufficient play areas open to Class II users.
20. This draft is not utilizing the entire Ochoco Summit area and are crowding OHVs particular Class II user instead of spreading us out throughout the entire area. This is wrong. Again this is discriminatory against Class II users.
21. Noise is not a valid complaint within a motorized use area. There are millions of acres of wilderness within Oregon for non-noise seekers to visit where motorized use does not exist. This document should have direct them where they can seek solitude not criticize motorize vehicles and demand them to have a ridicules noise level which is even lower than a hospital zone in the city. Our use is legitimate and within the Ochoco National Forest. There is wildernesses that motorized activity is not allowed in within the Ochoco National Forest that allows only motorized free environment. It is illegal for US Forest Service land managers to extend the wilderness boundaries by creating additional buffer zones (Removing existent roads and creating Roadless areas) around an existing wilderness.
22. This document has not a single positive paragraph concerning OHVs. From the first page to the last it criticizes OHV and presents them as if they are evil instead of promoting and creating a positive OHV trail riding experience. This document down talks OHVs to lower than a snake belly. This is wrong!
23. The US Forest service is an agency that states per the Federal Register CFRs (36CFR Part 212 page 68264) that OHVs are a valid use of US Forest Service lands yet this document has not a single comment, from a single meeting, or letters printed from the OHV community that have met with the Ochoco National Forest concerning Class II users. These Class II users have been coming, commenting in writing and verbal’s for over 30 years. There are local clubs and state wide clubs with thousands of US citizens and no attempt was made to include all of these people prior to the writing of this document. Not a single mile of trails that we have used or map have been including within this document. It is not understandable to us why our maps and verbiage would not have been sought out and used for writing this document about Class II use. This is not comprehendible. These Alternatives need to be rewritten with our input not just the words of those who have but one goal and that is to remove all motorized activities from public lands. This has created a very biased; opinionated document against OHVs and for Ochoco National Forest to do this is wrong and I am considerably offended as a citizen of the United States.
24. They could of used positive OHV References from: National Management Strategy for motorized Off-Highway Vehicle use on Public lands, Management Guidelines for OHV Recreation, Federal Register, US Forest Service Handbook, OHV’: A Legitimate Use, OHV Class II 4x4 Trails Inventory & Report, Tread Lightly, ETC but they chose to use Non-motorized user groups that have but one plan and that is to remove all motorized use from public lands.
25. These OHV clubs for Class II are the field experts on the ground but we are not include as providing extremely useful and factual information within these pages. List your club and clubs you know about within this area or state.
26. Roads are not trails. Roads that are used by the general public for ever day travel is not a trail. Roads that connect other forest users (non-motorized and motorized) from trail head to watering hole are not Class II trails they are roads.
27. Class II trails need to extend for east to west connecting trails on both sides of Ochoco Trails System. Trails need to run East to West not crowded up in just one small area. Class II users are very slow generally traveling at less than five miles an hour on true Class II trails. Our speeds on easy route are rarely over 25mph as we enjoy traveling through the forest and to keep dust down. The trails need to be dispersed throughout the entire area so we can truly experience the Ochoco National Forest. It is just wrong to cram only Class II user in such a small space. We as forest user enjoy easy trail to range for trails such as easy to difficult; then come out in a loop and easy trail it over to the next most difficult trail; then over to the extreme trail/play area then back to camp for a day run. The next day we want a new area for a run. Class II users are like all other forest user we like new trail each day we are in the forest. Please don’t make us use the same routes over and over again degrading the soil and our trail surface. Each loop should be 25-150 miles to complete. There is room here and in the Ochoco National Forest for trails that would allow a Class II user an entire week of camping and trail riding.
28. Soil degradation is one thing that we consider each day. The impact of a hundred rigs needs to be spread out over an entire system of trails. Spring and Fall maintenance will have to be done. At the opening of the season we bring the trails back into standards for the seasonal use and in the fall we put it to bed so nature can heal it for the oncoming year. Our OHV funds, club funds and individual funds are used and we donate thousands of hours to this process of keeping the trails useable and challenging for the rigs behind us. It must be understood here that we are talking about true Class II trails. Shared use roads and shared use trails that can be driven by a 59 Impala are not trails and our assistance or our funds will be not be used for roads called trails. Soil degradation on true trails will get our utmost attention in keeping these trails open for our use it is very important to Class II users.
29. The PNW4-WDA has put in many miles of trails and maintains hundreds of miles of true Class II trails in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. We have put in water bars, culverts, water crossing, hand built, used all types of machines and our Class II vehicles building miles of trails for our use hand in hand with the US Forest Service, BLM and State agencies. We understand as an organized group the importance of soil degradation and erosion of water impaction our trails. These are not issues to close trails or not to build trails but issue to be dealt with and engineered into the trail. There is not an issue in this area that cannot be dealt with by our team of experts. In Alternative IV considerable time is spent on these two topics and I can assure you our expertise in these matters will enable us to repair, build and continually use a trail over and over again for decades using our knowledge in Class II trails.
30. No more roads should be closed in this area.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and please comment all input will help us save access!!!
www.pnw4wda.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3256
Commenting on the project: Ochoco Summit Trail System #26807
The Forest Service values public input. Comments received, including respondents’ names and addresses, will become part of the public record for this proposed action. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, anonymous comments will not provide the agency with the ability to provide you with project updates. The Forest Service wishes to provide you with as many opportunities as possible to learn about our activities.
E-mail comments: pacificnorthwest-ochoco@fs.fed.us
addressing same tytle and address as below.
Submitting Hard Copy Comments please send it to:
Dede Steele
Ochoco National Forest
Ochoco Summit Trail System #26807
3160 N.E. 3rd Street
Prineville, OR, 97754
Please take a minute and comment on this project in Central Oregon!
4x4's are being left out in their prefered alternative-I have listed over 30 points that you might agree with and make comment to them on.
Ochoco Summit Trail System #26807
This is fairly simple all you need to write is that you are in favor of Alternative IV with exceptions: See the numbers and pick something that you are passionate about and write.
If you only want to write a short paragraph (rewrite this paragraph in your own words) just say as a Class II user you are in favor of Alternative IV as it allows you the longest time of seasonal use and you would like even longer use such as April 1-November 31 on all difficult to extreme trails. You want access to the Ochoco National Forest all year around on motorized routes including when they are snow covered. State you want more miles from difficult to extreme and a range of opportunities as you utilize the Class II trails. A 100 miles of easy, 75 miles of difficult, 50 miles of most difficult, 20 miles of extreme at least (pick your numbers) miles of additional Class II trails needs to be added to Alternative IV. As this will be the only place to four-wheel in the Ochoco National Forest for many years to come. You need to state as you drive (However many miles from home) 250 miles to wheel here and would like at least a week of trails from difficult to extreme to enable user satisfaction while using a Class II OHV system. You would like a camping site that would interconnect to all trails without moving your camp from the east to the west side for day runs. Thank the Ochoco National Forest for all the easy roads but explain these types of roads need to be left open year around and are not really 4-wheeling why even a blue Toyota Prius (pick a two wheel car) could drive these easy roads. Roads are not Class II trails! In order for me to have a meaningful outing in the Ochoco National Forest I need Class II trails for outdoor recreation. Please will you add my comments to Alternative IV in the writing of the final decision? If you just write this make each sentence a standalone paragraph or group them to suit yourself. Repeat yourself at this time. I favor Alternative IV but please consider my comments for Class II use. Thank you for allowing me to comment etc… and close with your complete name and address.
If you choose to write a longer letter; feel free to do so. Just simple state I am in favor of Alternative IV etc…. with the following exceptions which need to be added to Alternative IV in the Final Decision. Below are the exceptions you can pick from. Be sure to note they are exceptions to the Alternative you have chosen. Do not pick Alternative III as it leaves you with no Class II trail Pick one or more:
1. The season for Class II use is to short needs to be extended to at least April 1-November 31 on all Class II trail from difficult to extreme.
2. Class II user are the largest class of OHVs in the United States. Class II user are anything over 800 pounds and width is less than 80 inch (This documents description of Class II). This includes all vehicle entering the Ochoco Summit area; list as many as you can think of hunters, fishermen, mushroom gathers, sightseers, those out enjoying a drive in the forest, berry pickers, hikers on the way to trailhead, Etc… are in a Class II vehicle which could use a Class II trail.
3. In the Ochoco Summit Trail System has listed OHV areas outside of the Ochoco National Forest but these areas have nothing but roads, shared use roads/trails and offer no range of opportunities for Class II. What they offer are just easy routes that a Honda car could drive. There is but 24 miles of true Class II trials East of the Cascades and this area should change that for all of Central Oregon. Prineville is the closest town and three needs to be a true Class II trail system just as there has been for over a hundred years to provide this community access for a complete range of Class II opportunities; roads are not trails; shared trails rarely are Class II trails. A range of opportunities would be trail from easy to extreme for over for the entire 212 miles of OHV trails for Class II vehicles.
4. The description of Class II vehicle is stated in the Federal Register CFRs and the FS Handbook in this document it is just made up. We would like to see the definition changed to any vehicle on four tires, over 1800 pounds and is over 50 inches wide per the 2013 Oregon OHV guide. If it is trail width that you are trying to establish for Class II trails would you please use 84 inches from outside of tread width to outside of tread width of the vehicles tires. As Class II vehicles include pickups, rails, buggies, SUV/all-wheel drive vehicles, jeeps, cars etc… their width varies but a full size pickup is generally 80 plus inches wide tread width to tread width and this vehicle is the largest that should be allowed on forest trails. Trail width must be a little more than the expected vehicle that is driving the trails surface. Again the FS Handbook list the trail size for Class II and that is the size that should be used for Class II.
5. There needs to be as many miles for Class II user as any other user in the Ochoco Summit Trail System motorized or non-motorized.
6. It is discrimination against Class II user not to allow them the same time of use as other users.
7. It is discrimination against Class II use not to allow them the same amount of mileage of true Class II trails as other users. All other forest users are getting specific designed trails that will allow them a meaningful experience while using the Ochoco National Forest. In the preferred alternative Class II gets zero in Alternative IV will please change that.
8. Class II user should be able to use ever mile of the trail system that is allowed (max at this time is 212 miles of hopeful trails).
9. There is not enough mileage of trails to provide more than a half day outing. Need more trails mileage. This is wrong that all other user non-motorized and motorized user is getting hundreds of miles and Alternatives for Class II is not. Class II should have the same if not more miles as other forest users. Class II is the largest class of OHVs therefore our miles of Class II trails must be as large if not largest. We need more miles with a full range of alternatives not just easy shared use routes.
10. There needs to be at least 50 (add your own number) of difficult trail to extreme trails to enable a meaningful experience within the Ochoco Summit Trails system while operating a Class II OHV.
11. Every user group; non-motorized or motorized are getting trails that provide a meaningful experience why have you remove Class II from the preferred alternative? Is this not discrimination of US citizens? I have read the discrimination policy on the front cover page and it state the US Department of Agriculture is prohibited from discrimination. Than why is this entire document discriminating against a single class of user know as Class II OHVs?
12. Kathleen Klein has been at meetings with the local four-wheel drive users and it was stated in her presence that there is no miles of challenging four-wheel drive trails in the Ochoco National Forest yet there is 0 miles of trail in the Preferred Alternative for Class II users. This is wrong.
13. Kathleen Klein was at the United States Represented Greg Walden meeting in Prineville and many residents stated they want the Level I roads and User created routes left open in the Ochoco National forest. Ms. Klein has not used her resource to reopen these routes to Class II user who have used these routes for over a hundred years and have been our trails.
14. As the Responsible Official for this document she is aware that there are zero miles of true Class II trail within the preferred Alternative and there are no trails within the Ochoco National Forest for Class II use.
15. Per Kent Connaughton the Region 6 Regional Forester, Tracy Beck and Gale Throop state that any closed road (Level I or user created route) can be reopened particularly if there is a public need and Class II has a justifiable need for true Class II trail from difficult to extreme. Kathleen Klein has within her office has the opportunity to work with the OHV community and reopen all that is suitable for OHVs particularly Class II. At this time 669 miles of Level I roads are closed that the OHV community particularly Class II user would like consideration for reopening particularly Class II. This is within the scope of this project and no other EA or NEPA would have to be done. Also some of the Level I roads could be reclassified as Level II roads and thus would be reopened under Level II designation possible providing a difficult Class II trail.
16. There are insufficient Alternatives for Class II. Sufficient Alternatives should be a thousand miles of easy routes, 500 miles of difficult routes, 250 miles of most difficult and at least 20 miles of extreme routes. This is an OHV trails system that is being built or the utilization of old roads. There should be at least a week of wheeling for Class II users.
17. All our trails are open for all users non-motorized and motorized but we can’t use all the non-motorized trails; this is discriminations and also the non-motorized user will claim conflicts against them are occurring. While using our motorized trails and motorized areas they will claim unjust reasons to close motorized use from public lands.
18. Personally Class II trails can be open to anyone who wants to use the trail. Any human or animal can use our trails is our motto just work with us to keep the trail open for our use as well.
19. There is insufficient play areas open to Class II users.
20. This draft is not utilizing the entire Ochoco Summit area and are crowding OHVs particular Class II user instead of spreading us out throughout the entire area. This is wrong. Again this is discriminatory against Class II users.
21. Noise is not a valid complaint within a motorized use area. There are millions of acres of wilderness within Oregon for non-noise seekers to visit where motorized use does not exist. This document should have direct them where they can seek solitude not criticize motorize vehicles and demand them to have a ridicules noise level which is even lower than a hospital zone in the city. Our use is legitimate and within the Ochoco National Forest. There is wildernesses that motorized activity is not allowed in within the Ochoco National Forest that allows only motorized free environment. It is illegal for US Forest Service land managers to extend the wilderness boundaries by creating additional buffer zones (Removing existent roads and creating Roadless areas) around an existing wilderness.
22. This document has not a single positive paragraph concerning OHVs. From the first page to the last it criticizes OHV and presents them as if they are evil instead of promoting and creating a positive OHV trail riding experience. This document down talks OHVs to lower than a snake belly. This is wrong!
23. The US Forest service is an agency that states per the Federal Register CFRs (36CFR Part 212 page 68264) that OHVs are a valid use of US Forest Service lands yet this document has not a single comment, from a single meeting, or letters printed from the OHV community that have met with the Ochoco National Forest concerning Class II users. These Class II users have been coming, commenting in writing and verbal’s for over 30 years. There are local clubs and state wide clubs with thousands of US citizens and no attempt was made to include all of these people prior to the writing of this document. Not a single mile of trails that we have used or map have been including within this document. It is not understandable to us why our maps and verbiage would not have been sought out and used for writing this document about Class II use. This is not comprehendible. These Alternatives need to be rewritten with our input not just the words of those who have but one goal and that is to remove all motorized activities from public lands. This has created a very biased; opinionated document against OHVs and for Ochoco National Forest to do this is wrong and I am considerably offended as a citizen of the United States.
24. They could of used positive OHV References from: National Management Strategy for motorized Off-Highway Vehicle use on Public lands, Management Guidelines for OHV Recreation, Federal Register, US Forest Service Handbook, OHV’: A Legitimate Use, OHV Class II 4x4 Trails Inventory & Report, Tread Lightly, ETC but they chose to use Non-motorized user groups that have but one plan and that is to remove all motorized use from public lands.
25. These OHV clubs for Class II are the field experts on the ground but we are not include as providing extremely useful and factual information within these pages. List your club and clubs you know about within this area or state.
26. Roads are not trails. Roads that are used by the general public for ever day travel is not a trail. Roads that connect other forest users (non-motorized and motorized) from trail head to watering hole are not Class II trails they are roads.
27. Class II trails need to extend for east to west connecting trails on both sides of Ochoco Trails System. Trails need to run East to West not crowded up in just one small area. Class II users are very slow generally traveling at less than five miles an hour on true Class II trails. Our speeds on easy route are rarely over 25mph as we enjoy traveling through the forest and to keep dust down. The trails need to be dispersed throughout the entire area so we can truly experience the Ochoco National Forest. It is just wrong to cram only Class II user in such a small space. We as forest user enjoy easy trail to range for trails such as easy to difficult; then come out in a loop and easy trail it over to the next most difficult trail; then over to the extreme trail/play area then back to camp for a day run. The next day we want a new area for a run. Class II users are like all other forest user we like new trail each day we are in the forest. Please don’t make us use the same routes over and over again degrading the soil and our trail surface. Each loop should be 25-150 miles to complete. There is room here and in the Ochoco National Forest for trails that would allow a Class II user an entire week of camping and trail riding.
28. Soil degradation is one thing that we consider each day. The impact of a hundred rigs needs to be spread out over an entire system of trails. Spring and Fall maintenance will have to be done. At the opening of the season we bring the trails back into standards for the seasonal use and in the fall we put it to bed so nature can heal it for the oncoming year. Our OHV funds, club funds and individual funds are used and we donate thousands of hours to this process of keeping the trails useable and challenging for the rigs behind us. It must be understood here that we are talking about true Class II trails. Shared use roads and shared use trails that can be driven by a 59 Impala are not trails and our assistance or our funds will be not be used for roads called trails. Soil degradation on true trails will get our utmost attention in keeping these trails open for our use it is very important to Class II users.
29. The PNW4-WDA has put in many miles of trails and maintains hundreds of miles of true Class II trails in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. We have put in water bars, culverts, water crossing, hand built, used all types of machines and our Class II vehicles building miles of trails for our use hand in hand with the US Forest Service, BLM and State agencies. We understand as an organized group the importance of soil degradation and erosion of water impaction our trails. These are not issues to close trails or not to build trails but issue to be dealt with and engineered into the trail. There is not an issue in this area that cannot be dealt with by our team of experts. In Alternative IV considerable time is spent on these two topics and I can assure you our expertise in these matters will enable us to repair, build and continually use a trail over and over again for decades using our knowledge in Class II trails.
30. No more roads should be closed in this area.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and please comment all input will help us save access!!!
www.pnw4wda.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3256