Channel: eveRide

Category: Autos & Vehicles

Description: THIS. IS. HUGE! PLEASE READ THIS DESCRIPTION! Make your voice heard! Visit eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/2001224/510. Click the green box on the left that says "Participate Now" and then click on the green box on the right that says "Participate Now". Please use the link above to provide a polite, unemotional comment that expresses your concerns. Threats, curse words and emotional comments will not promote our cause. Please send in your comment NOW! Time is of the essence. Comments must be submitted by this coming Monday, April 26th. Talking points for your comment submission: Our positive financial impact on the local economy Our volunteer work to build new trail systems Our volunteer work to maintain and improve jeep roads, ATV and MC trails Our financial contribution to the area trails via purchasing off-road stickers - millions of dollars annually - hikers and bicycle riders contribute nothing Our right as taxpayers to use public land How you, your family and friends use and enjoy the area Please also visit SUWA's website and read the points they're making. Some of them are legitimate points! Check out their board of directors (less than half are actually in Utah, and only four live in Southern Utah) and READ, READ, READ as much as you can. When you dive deeper does it sound like a non-partisan website? Do the complaints and closures sound reasonable? suwa.org Perhaps we can find some middle ground, but full closure is not the answer. SUWA's argument is that people don't follow the rules when using these trails, but closing the trails to honest, hard-working, good people who enjoy OHV responsibly DOESN'T KEEP OUT THE DIRTBAGS WHO RIDE OFF-TRAIL AND LITTER, because riding off-trail and littering is ALREADY ILLEGAL in these areas. SUWA also complains that noise is a big issue and proposes closing vast areas of land because the noise disrupts hiking trails. This is painting the closure area with a HUGE BRUSH and setting a dangerous precedent for future land closures because sound can travel a long way! Many of these trails are so remote and hostile that hiking them actually requires OHV vehicles to access. Trails under threat of closure include every trail west of Highway 191 and north of town to I70: Gemini Bridges, Rusty Nail, Golden Spike, Gold Bar Rim, Golden Crack, Poison Spider, Monitor & Merimac, Seven Mile Rim, Bull Canyon, White Wash Dunes, 10 Mile Canyon, Bartlett, Tusher, Determination Towers, Mashed Potatoes, Secret Spire, Dubinky, 3D, Dead Cow, The Tubes, and all the atv/single-track surrounding the dunes. These trails are all currently legal and most actually see very little use, but they're under threat of closure from out-of-state lobbyists.