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By Greg Peters - August 26, 2010    Wildlands CPR, The Wilderness Society, and the Helena National Forest hosted a field tour on the Helena National Forest yesterday, August 25th.  The tour highlighted the Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative, visiting a site where road reclamation is ongoing to protect and restore clean water supplies. Once in the woods, the tour met up with excavator operator Karry Cross, who ran his excavator to give the camera crews from 3 local t.v.

By Adam Rissien - May 21, 2010   Remember seeing that Smokey the Bear ad warning ATV riders that their machines can spark forest fires. No? Well, that’s because the motorized activists cried foul so loudly that the Forest Service pulled the ad back in 2008 when it was first proposed (see our previous post).

By Greg Peters - February 23, 2010   

By Thomas R Petersen - February 19, 2010    Seven of Canada's Rocky Mt. National Parks are getting a total of $945,000 to fix culverts that block fish from entering important mountain streams, which will improve aquatic connectivity.

By Adam Rissien - November 19, 2009    Our friends with Kern Co. ORV Watch recently sent us their most recent monitoring results. They write:

By Laurel Hagen - June 2, 2009    The Paria Canyon ATV protest (explanation) has been getting a fair bit of coverage in the Salt Lake Tribune and elsewhere over the past few weeks. Some samples:  

By Josh Hurd - April 27, 2009    Wildlands CPR's Tom Petersen was on Montana Public Radio's "The Write Question" on Sunday, April 26. Listen to the program by clicking on the play button below. The program will air again on Thursday, April 30, from 8:30PM-8:42PM.

By cathy - April 20, 2009    ORV proponents say they are being denied the right to enjoy their property...but ORV opponents are claiming the same thing...what happens when two opposing views use the same argument to support their position? That is what might unfold tomorrow when Yakima County commissioners take up a controversial proposal on ORVs that would allow their use virtually throughout Yakima County without regulation.

By Adam Rissien - April 16, 2009   The Billings Gazette reported on a recent DVD release by several off-road vehicle activist groups that decries trail protections for sensitive places. You can see the article here: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/16/news/state/24-dvd.txt

By Josh Hurd - April 14, 2009    A while ago I did a searching with UC Davis' Natural Resource Projects Inventory, trying to understand where most California restoration projects get their funding. In the process, however, I discovered that I could map all of the watershed restoration projects as well.