Blog Archives for Lower Atlantic

By Sarah Peters - May 11, 2010   

By Bethanie Walder - April 2, 2010    The Miami Herald has a great article about hiking in Big Cypress National Preserve today.  The reporter joined a Sierra Club outing led by activist Matthew Schwartz into a newer section of the Preserve, called the “Addition Lands.”  My husband and I were lucky enough to go for a hike there with Matthew just a few weeks ago while on a visit to FL, in addition to visiting numerous other native FL ecosystems threatened by off-road vehicle and road development.  Wildlands

By Sarah Peters - March 10, 2009    A little over a week ago, the Forest Service came out with their draft Environmental Assessment evaluating the Tellico Off Road Vehicle area and I was pleased to see that their preferred action alternative calls for closing the ORV trails in the area due to water quality problems. 

By Franklin Seal - June 16, 2008   Officials at Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia have decided to permanently close Anderson Creek to off-road vehicles despite an effort to find a way to allow them in the creek. Officials said that, in the end, there was no way to have off-road vehicles in the creek and at the same time prevent increased erosion and silt in the watershed. And no wonder.

By Josh Hurd - August 15, 2007   If one thing is true of off-road vehicle special interest groups, it is that they sure know how to use rhetoric to spin issues. While this is a credit to their ingenuity, it does nothing but spread disinformation and confuse people. Take the water quality issues of Upper Tellico River, for example.