Other Projects

Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida

Wildlands CPR has been working to protect Big Cypress from damaging off-road vehicle abuse for more than a decade. We won an important legal victory a few years ago that, once implemented, will limit off-road vehicles to 400 miles of designated routes, down from the 23,000 miles of user-created routes that exist now.

The Park Service has taken an interesting perspective on the implementation plan, however, and has now opened up 20 miles of motorized routes in key panther habitat and meadows. We don't think that's okay and we're working with a coalition of groups to stop that. For more information on our on-going litigation to protect Big Cypress from motorized abuse, click here.

Pike San Isabel National Forest, CO

In January 2011, Wildlands CPR joined with our partners in Colorado to challenge the Pike San Isabel National Forest's decision to publish motor vehicle use maps without appropriate analysis of the routes approved for motorized use.  The agency illegally added nearly 800 routes to a transportation system that’s already tremendously bloated without even the slightest look at the impacts these 800 routes could have on wildlife, non-motorized users of the forest, and air and water quality.  We hope our litigation will result in the Forest Service looking before it leaps and evaluating the impacts of its route system before placing it on a map as open to motorized use.

Klamath National Forest, CA

The Klamath National Forest, located in northern CA along the border with Oregon, is another area of concern stemming from a bad travel management planning process.  The Klamath ignored the extensive impacts from its existing road system when deciding to open additional routes to motorized use.  Turning a blind eye to the on-going resource problems caused by a road system of over 4,500 miles and a maintenance backlog of over $55.5 million was both environmentally and fiscally irresponsible.  We have joined with our partners in northern California to challenge this poor land management decision that degrades water quality, impairs fish habitat, and ignores existing management directives.

Past Successes

Wildlands CPR has a strong history of work across the country, from Washington to Florida. Click on the map for a larger national-overview map of a sample of our work (270kb).