Documenting the Environmental Impacts of Motorized Recreation: Protocol and Survey Forms — Wildlands CPR has developed comprehensive protocols and tools for monitoring and documenting the impacts of off-road vehicle use on natural resources. The protocol describes how to conduct this work and other factors that are critically important in terms of collecting information in a systematic manner. Tools include detailed forms that will help to document information through narratives, photos and other means. Wildlands CPR also conducts local workshops designed to provide practical training to citizens nationwide.

National Off-road Vehicle Impacts Database – Great Old Broads for Wilderness has developed and launched a database — nicknamed GINGER — designed to catalogue the broad spectrum of ecological effects associated with off-road vehicle use. It will document the range of impacts of specific routes and cross-country travel through pictures, GPS coordinates, narrative descriptions and other means. This is a web-based, searchable application that could become a national repository of detailed information about routes on specific BLM lands, National Forests, and other public lands.

Great Old Broads has also developed specific monitoring and documenting protocols to facilitate efficient input into this system. To learn more about this project and how your organization might utilize and add data to it, contact broads@greatoldbroads.org.

Related Resource

Wildlands CPR’s Field Notes — Published in Wildlands CPR’s quarterly journal, The Road RIPorter, Field Notes provides activists with proven field techniques related to off-road vehicle management, road management, and road decommissioning.