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The US Forest Service is deciding where you can ride
through a nationwide effort. About a year ago, the U.S. Forest Service
announced a new rule to guide recreational motor vehicle use in national
forests and grasslands nationwide. The new travel management policy
requires each national forest and grassland to identify and designate the
roads, trails and areas that are open to motor vehicle use. Even
unplanned, user-created trails are supposed to be considered in this new
effort.
The Forest Service expects that it will take up to four
years to complete the designation process for all 155 forests and 20
grasslands in the nation. Once the designations are made, each forest or
grassland is supposed to publish a motor vehicle use map that shows the
legal routes to ride. Motor vehicle use off these routes and outside these
areas--what is known as cross-country travel--will be illegal.
The Forest Service released a schedule for the national
forests and grasslands nationwide to designate the roads, trails and areas
that will allow motor vehicles. The forest and grasslands officials are
taking public comment on the designation of routes, so it's up to you to
be sure you submit comments, or attend public meetings. You can find out
more about the schedule for designating routes in your area by contacting
your nearest national forest or grassland, or going to the US Forest
Service website. |
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