Protect 24 million acres from OHV restrictions
Contact your Representative to Oppose H.R. 980!
The Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing on May 5 to consider H.R. 980, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA). This legislation was introduced by Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY). It will designate 24 million acres as Wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. This Wilderness designation will make the land off-limits to off-highway riders.
With the Wilderness bill (Omnibus Public Land Management Act) recently signed into law, that prohibited off-highway vehicle (OHV) use on over 2 million acres, this Congress now feels emboldened to continue pressing for passage of even more Wilderness bills that would take away additional OHV trails enjoyed responsibly by your friends and family.
We need your help to stop H.R. 980 in its tracks. The fastest way to reach your Representative is to call them. You can find contact information for your elected officials by entering your zip code on AmericanMotorcyclist.com, clicking on "Rights," then "Issues and Legislation." Additionally, a prewritten e-mail is available for you to send to your Representative immediately by following the "Take Action" option and entering your information.
To see our press release regarding the hearing, please click here.
We must remain vigilant. If this bill were signed into law, the effect on the OHV community would be devastating for generations. Please contact your Representative right away and urge them to oppose H.R. 980.
Here follows the truth as it actually is, unbiased by hysteria or the misinformed! HR 980
As the OP states...."If this bill were signed into law, the effect on the OHV community would be devastating for generations."
I view it as exactly the opposite, destroying our public lands is actually "devastating for future generations!" As in 'Grandpa, what was a forest?'
And here is a video of the sponsor and one of the authors of the bill...it seems that the OHV folks are making this much adoo about nothing....? Is this lady an unrational person with an axe to grind? Nope!
And keep in mind...this is not the vast open deserts of the south west, desolate sand and rocks, minimal wildlife, not much water...this is rather the lush, pristine, forested water shed areas of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Vital and full of life, animals, birds, fish and green tall trees, rushing water, lakes.
24 million acres of mostly no roads and highway free land, no mines or cut and slash lumber operations. Places where you can sit back and stare at millions of glittering stars, various solar systems, planets and shooting stars without city lights intruding.
Heck..isn't all of this what a true American RVer and Campers treasures above all else, and wants to keep safe and untouched for our grand children and great grand kids? And for us too!
As Ansel Adams said in 1925, "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
But now we are fighting our own citizens to save the environment!?
And Samuel Clemens in 1840 said "Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness..."
"Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of ensuring the safety and continuance of the Nation. We have gotten past the stage, my fellow-citizens, when we are to be pardoned if we treat any part of our country as something to be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present generation; whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery." —THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself. —MOLLIE BEATTY
Official Summary-Read this and see what actually is at stake!
2/11/2009--Introduced.
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act - Designates the following lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (System):
(1) Greater Glacier/Northern Continental Divide ecosystem;
(2) Greater Yellowstone ecosystem;
(3) Greater Salmon/Selway ecosystem;
(4) Greater Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystem;
(5) Greater Hells Canyon ecosystem;
(6) Islands in the Sky Wilderness; and
(7) Blackfeet Wilderness. Designates:
(1) specified wild land areas as Biological Connecting Corridors to protect the life flow of the Northern Rockies Bioregion;
(2) the inventoried roadless areas identified as part of the Corridors as wilderness and components of the System; and
(3) certain biological connecting corridors as special corridor management areas. Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of specified rivers and creeks in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Establishes the National Wildland Restoration and Recovery System and the National Wildland Recovery Corps.
Horrible, isn't it, God forbid that we not destroy some of out premier wilderness areas!
"Will you ever begin to understand the meaning of the very soil beneath your feet? From a grain of sand to a great mountain, all is sacred. Yesterday and tomorrow exist eternally upon ths land. We are guardians of this sacred place." Chief Peter Blue Cloud-Mohawk Tribe 1886
I'm with you! We have a DUTY to protect our land, plants, and animals for all future generations! Besides that, I like the wilderness unspoiled by OHVs.
fordsooperdooty wrote: Here follows the truth as it actually is, unbiased by hysteria or the misinformed! HR 980
As the OP states...."If this bill were signed into law, the effect on the OHV community would be devastating for generations."
I view it as exactly the opposite, destroying our public lands is actually "devastating for future generations!" As in 'Grandpa, what was a forest?'
And here is a video of the sponsor and one of the authors of the bill...it seems that the OHV folks are making this much adoo about nothing....? Is this lady an unrational person with an axe to grind? Nope!
And keep in mind...this is not the vast open deserts of the south west, desolate sand and rocks, minimal wildlife, not much water...this is rather the lush, pristine, forested water shed areas of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Vital and full of life, animals, birds, fish and green tall trees, rushing water, lakes.
24 million acres of mostly no roads and highway free land, no mines or cut and slash lumber operations. Places where you can sit back and stare at millions of glittering stars, various solar systems, planets and shooting stars without city lights intruding.
Heck..isn't all of this what a true American RVer and Campers treasures above all else, and wants to keep safe and untouched for our grand children and great grand kids? And for us too!
As Ansel Adams said in 1925, "It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment."
But now we are fighting our own citizens to save the environment!?
And Samuel Clemens in 1840 said "Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness..."
"Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of ensuring the safety and continuance of the Nation. We have gotten past the stage, my fellow-citizens, when we are to be pardoned if we treat any part of our country as something to be skinned for two or three years for the use of the present generation; whether it is the forest, the water, the scenery." —THEODORE ROOSEVELT
"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself. —MOLLIE BEATTY
Official Summary-Read this and see what actually is at stake!
2/11/2009--Introduced.
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act - Designates the following lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (System):
(1) Greater Glacier/Northern Continental Divide ecosystem;
(2) Greater Yellowstone ecosystem;
(3) Greater Salmon/Selway ecosystem;
(4) Greater Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystem;
(5) Greater Hells Canyon ecosystem;
(6) Islands in the Sky Wilderness; and
(7) Blackfeet Wilderness. Designates:
(1) specified wild land areas as Biological Connecting Corridors to protect the life flow of the Northern Rockies Bioregion;
(2) the inventoried roadless areas identified as part of the Corridors as wilderness and components of the System; and
(3) certain biological connecting corridors as special corridor management areas. Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of specified rivers and creeks in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Establishes the National Wildland Restoration and Recovery System and the National Wildland Recovery Corps.
Horrible, isn't it, God forbid that we not destroy some of out premier wilderness areas!
"Will you ever begin to understand the meaning of the very soil beneath your feet? From a grain of sand to a great mountain, all is sacred. Yesterday and tomorrow exist eternally upon ths land. We are guardians of this sacred place." Chief Peter Blue Cloud-Mohawk Tribe 1886
fordsooperdooty wrote: 24 million acres of mostly no roads and highway free land, no mines or cut and slash lumber operations. Places where you can sit back and stare at millions of glittering stars, various solar systems, planets and shooting stars without city lights intruding.
Heck..isn't all of this what a true American RVer and Campers treasures above all else, and wants to keep safe and untouched for our grand children and great grand kids? And for us too!
Ya realize if they close it the only way you the good RV'er will be able to see it is to hike into it. Not so much RVing then is it?
I'm all for conserving our contries natural beauty and saving the forests for our grand kids, but closing them and not allowing us to use and enjoy them is not the answer. We need to find a happy medium!!
I have seen the endless miles of trails that the government has closed in the Mojave desert. Doesn't make any sense. If you think they are saving it for our grandchildren, guess again. They will not be able to see it or use it either.
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