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I I _ _ _.,..,.... • .,...-T riumph :-- - --:-:, WARDS RIVERSIDE II'QJAYE IBy Benelli) PARlllA CAPR IOlO MY AGUSTA 250 BIA NCH I CAPRI SCOO TERS . ne thing you can count on, the Forest Service is not about to accept any sacrifice areas ," mused Nancy , the cute PARTS , Wo rld', 10'Ve,1 inventory for Italian malDrcytfes Rebuilt Engine Er.bonge, tOSMONlI1I • •'OItS.IIIC . Hat bor o . Pa 19040 (2151672· 9100 REP. AREAS AV A IL.. little forester. W e wer e sta nd ing next to a map of th e T onto National Forest, po nde ri ng the wisd om of j he proposed O RV closures. Looking at the m ap , the a wfu l reali ty of wh a t it portrayed sank in, Percentag e-wise , th ey've only closed a sma ll pan - th ey've onl y clos ed the most popu la r riding are~s near Phoen ix! Californi a , here we come . Is this the beginning of the end - o r is the re a way out? ' " T here's no need to sacr ifi ce an ything. but this plan is unworkable. You 're either go ing to make violators out of honest but desperate people , or else ca use them to move into adjacent open areas a nd sta rt the cycle over again :" I replied. " W hy not handle th ese areas like the Prescott Forest did _ close th em to cross, cou n try' travel , but lea ve th e existing roads and trails open , Most people' are willing to ride on exist ing tra velw ays , so yo u' d sta bi lize the sit u a ti o n at e xist in g conditions.'.' "T h at might work , but I'm not the one you' ve got to convince - it 's the District Rangers that are calling the shots, " she countered . " Yea h . and I kn ow a cou p le that don't like m ot orcycles, Look here , on this District all of the jeep roads and washes leading down to the lake were left ope n to fa cil itate fishermen. Over here on this District , similar tr ails used by bikers were closed . The only thing they left open wer e roads the Forest grades!" , "I know ," the for ester at my other elbow join ed in , " bu t that's the way it . works. It's a matter of pressure. " .P ressu r e . The land responds to pressure by erod ing . Pressure from grazing . pressure from logging, pressure from m ining. Pressure from ORVs , But somehow we're th e ones t ha t ge t tak en to task . The 0 R V p robl em , exe cu t ive .. order . regulations. ORV management plans. clo sures. It a ll goes down, and here I stand, sicke n ed by th e inevitability of it. What to do ? When this a ll sta rted, I asked if the demand for a place to ride would be consid ered in designating areas , "Su re," they said . Did they? Not so you could tell . What They d id was close those areas used the most - those ugly scars - to halt the damage. They considered only the current impact on the resourc e . The Forest Servic e's efforts are summed up in the " O ff- Road Vehicle Management' Plan" for all national forests in Arizona: At first glance, the plan looks good from our viewpoint , with only 1 ,5 14 ,8 76 acres of the 11 ,350, 806 total national forest acreage in Arizona c'losed or restricted to ORV travel. Vast areas of the forest (86% ) are left op~n - as they always have been - to ORV travel. And ne arly half of th e areas now closed were areas that were already closed , suc h as wilderness , scie ntific, and natural area s. T he kickeris that most of the newl y closed o r restricted area s a re some of the most popular