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here is my thoughts:
off roading is always over run and out voted by naturalist hippies. plain and simple. they complain that off roading has to much of a neg impact and crap gets closed down. that being said, what is the off road community doing to help ON THE LARGE SCALE?
nothing.
there are thousands of small clubs (some but not all help on a small scale locally).
there are dozens of GOOD low impact offroaders, but for every low impact offroader there is 2 rednecks is big ford trucks tearing up someones corn field or blazing illegal trails (is a huge problem in clark and champaign county alone, i dont knwo about other countys but im sure they have there issues too).
off roading is like gun control.. the NRA keeps gun control hippies under control. without the NRA and the rednecks guarding there houses from gun removal, who to say some politician wouldnt just say, "lets ammend the ammendments and control guns!"... the NRA keeps thing under control AND does alot of positive things like giving back, and encouraging hunters to give back. and they do. more hunters and NRA members give more money and time enviromentally than all the other funding orginizations combined.
(though there are still poachers)
until the offroad community makes there recognized version of the "nra" and starts making positive steps to give back to the places they use, then they will all slowly close down and fade away, or be limited to horses or quads.
then the private park will be it. thats why the private park is the future of off roading.
IMO... just something to think about....
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