August 27, 2007

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Welcome to Wildland CPR's new e-newsletter! Read ahead to find stories and commentary about off-road vehicles, watershed restoration, and roads. This periodic publication (1-2 editions each month) will replace Skid Marks, which many of you have been receiving.

Members will continue to receive our popular quarterly journal, the Road-RIPorter. Click here to join Wildlands CPR and support our work.

Restored Road $65 Million for Watershed Restoration
When it comes to salmon recovery, decommissioning and removing dams grabs the headlines. But decaying roads are equally damaging to endangered salmon populations and may just get the attention—and funding—they need.
Six Strategies Report Featured Resource: Six Strategies for Success
This new report recommends six strategies for off-road vehicle enforcement success. It is based on interviews with more than 50 public land managers, private landowners, citizen group leaders and volunteers, and law enforcement officers.
Jeeps Renegade ATV drivers invading roadless forests
Georgia is facing a growing off-road vehicle problem: ATV riders are illegally creating routes in roadless areas. This August 20, 2007 USA Today story highlights the problem.
Bill Burgund.  Photo by MICHAEL GALLACHER/Missoulian

ATV Hit-and-Run Injures Hiker
Bill Burgund, a retired police officer, was hit by an ATV illegally riding in an area set aside for wildlife and hiking. The rider fled the scene. This June 18, 2007 Missoulian article tells Bil'sl story.

Laurel A Day in the Life of Laurel Hagen
Laurel, our Utah Off-Road Vehicle Coordinator, tells us about an exciting day meeting with an off-road vehicle activist.
Bob Marshall Sunset

Image of the Week: Bull Moose in Idaho
This bull moose was captured on a removed road by a remote camera on October 9th, 2006. The road was part of a network of logging roads in the Shotgun Creek region of the Clearwater National Forest in Idaho. The road was removed as part of a watershed restoration initiative led by the Nez Perce Tribe and being studied by Wildlands CPR.


Wildlands CPR is the only national conservation group in the U.S. that specifically targets off-road vehicle abuse of public lands and actively promotes wildland restoration, road removal and the prevention of wildland road construction.

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