Environmental
Impacts of Motorized Recreation and Roads: A Bibliography
This searchable database contains more than 10,000 citations of
scientific studies, government reports, and related documents
on the environmental impacts of motorized recreation. The documents
cited here include scientific studies on a wide variety of adverse
impacts, including: soil erosion and soil compaction, sedimentation,
pollution, wildlife disturbance, habitat fragmentation and degradation,
and others. Wildlands CPR
Road
RIPorter: Bibliography Notes
The Road RIPorter is Wildlands CPR's quarterly newsletter. The
Bibliography Notes column summarizes and highlights some of the
scientific literature in our bibliographies (roughly 10,000 citations
total) on the ecological effects of roads and motorized recreation.
We keep copies of most articles cited in Bibliography Notes in
our office library. Wildlands CPR
Forest
Service Rulemaking Petition
Wildlands CPR, The Wilderness Society and more than one hundred
other organizations submitted this legal petition to the Forest
Service in 1999. The petition summarizes four decades of science
documenting the impacts of off-road vehicles on soils, water,
plants and other natural resources; wildlife; habitat; and human
health and safety. This may be the best single source of science
on this issue. The petition makes specific requests for management
changes to ensure that the public resources on our National Forests
are protected and restored.
Trails
at Risk: The Impacts of Unmanaged Motorized Recreation and Off-Road
Vehicle Use on Hiking Trails and the Hiking Experience
In March 2005, the American Hiking Society released this report
documenting the growing damage to hiking trails and hiking experiences
caused by unmanaged use of all-terrain vehicles, dirt bikes and
other off-road vehicles. The report catalogues a wide range of
general impacts and provides additional examples from Washington,
California, Montana, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Georgia, Texas and Florida. The report also provides recommendations
for improving off-road vehicle management.
Roaring From the Past: Off-Road Vehicles on America's National
Forests
Abstract
and Full
Report
This report (20 pages) uses specific examples and overall trends
within the Forest Service to show that the Forest Service's current
trail management is failing to protect the natural resources of
the National Forests, that user conflicts abound, that agency
monitoring and enforcement lags behind violations, and that nationwide,
the Forest Service's policy toward motorized use of trails is
characterized by confusion rather than cooperation. The report
makes recommendations for changes that must occur to safeguard
our National Forests from destructive off-road vehicle use, explains
the history of the 40" rule, and the Forest Service's administrative
rule change that was finalized in June of 1990. The report summarizes
and analyzes the results of Wildland CPR's inquiry into how each
National Forest responded to the revocation of the 40" rule
and how the massive increases in off-road vehicle use are being
handled by the Forest Service. The report also provides specific
examples of the on-the-ground effects of off-road vehicles. Wildlands
CPR
The
Road-Ripper's Guide to Off-Road Vehicles
This is a comprehensive guide to preventing the use of ORVs on
public lands and stopping the abuse they cause. Dan Wright, a
dedicated wilderness advocate, began this guide while an intern
for The Wildlands Project in Tucson, Arizona. On his way to an
environmental law degree, his already extensive knowledge of the
law relating to wildlands and ORVs comes through in this guide.
Wildlands CPR
Overriding Utah's
Wilderness: The Search for Balance and Quiet in Utah's Wilderness
This report documents damage caused by off-road vehicles on Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) lands in Utah. It includes case studies
of off-road vehicle mismanagement in Cedar Mesa, Comb Wash and
Arch Canyon; San Rafael Swell; and Moquith Mountain WSA and the
Coral Pink Sand Dunes. Finally, the report offers a series of
recommended policy changes designed to protect the environment
and improve off-road vehicle management on BLM lands in the state.
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Documenting
the Environmental Impacts of Motorized Recreation: Protocol and
Survey Forms
This protocol details a process for systematically and effectively
documenting the environmental impacts of motorized recreation.
Road
RIPorter: Field Notes
The Road RIPorter is Wildlands CPR's quarterly newsletter. The
Field Notes column provides "how to" information for
gathering field data on roads and motorized recreation. Wildlands
CPR
Legal
Road
RIPorter: Legal Notes
The Road RIPorter is Wildlands CPR's quarterly newsletter. The
Legal Notes column includes resources and information on legal
strategy, successful legal suits, and other legal information.
Wildlands CPR
Newsletters
Road
RIPorter: Bibliography Notes
The Road RIPorter is Wildlands CPR's quarterly newsletter. The
Bibliography Notes column summarizes and highlights some of
the scientific literature in our bibliographies (roughly 10,000
citations total) on the ecological effects of roads and motorized
recreation. We keep copies of most articles cited in Bibliography
Notes in our office library. Wildlands CPR
Road
RIPorter: Field Notes
The Road RIPorter is Wildlands CPR's quarterly newsletter. The
Field Notes column provides "how to" information for
gathering field data on roads and motorized recreation. Wildlands
CPR
Road
RIPorter: Legal Notes
The Road RIPorter is Wildlands CPR's quarterly newsletter. The
Legal Notes column includes resources and information on legal
strategy, successful legal suits, and other legal information.
Wildlands CPR
Skid
Marks
WCPR's (usually) biweekly e-mail newsletter reports on activist
efforts to challenge roads and motorized recreation nationwide.
Skid Marks shares instructive and precedent-setting successes
and failures in the campaign to halt motorized abuse of wildland
ecosystems. Wildlands CPR
Grassroots
Organizing
Taking
Action
This portion of the Club's website provides helpful information
about how to effectively participate in the policymaking process.
Sierra Club
Grassroots Organizing Training Manual
The Manual is a comprehensive guide to organizing. It includes
chapters about building an effective organization, defining
your organization's goals, crafting a communications plan, and
managing budgets and people. To request a copy, send an email
to liz.pallatto@sierraclub.org.
Sierra Club
Important
References
Find the representatives
in your state at: http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/activist/index2.html
Visit the Virtual
Activist Homepage this is an introduction to online advocacy.
