September 26, 2007

wildlandscpr — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:41:11 -0600

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 will have 1-2 editions each month.

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

	Feature story: Bitterroot Quiet Use Coalition Takes Off Wildlands CPR is putting extra effort into stopping off-road vehicle abuse and restoring watersheds and landscapes in our home state of Montana. And the benefits are already beginning to surface. A diverse coalition of hikers, horseback riders, hunters, homeowners and other conservationists are taking a stand to conserve clean water, healthy wildlife, and opportunities for folks to enjoy nature. more ...
	News: Wildlands CPR ally: “Feds must live up to commitment to maintain failing logging roads” “It's high time for the federal government to live up to its commitment to restore and maintain its failing logging roads. Puget Sound restoration, salmon recovery and the health of our rivers will suffer if it does not.” Those are the parting words in this guest column by the director of the Washington Department of Ecology, an ally in coalition efforts to win a $65 million appropriation for forest restoration through road removal. Read the op-ed or read about this campaign at wildlandscpr.org.
	News: Attacker on Dirt Bike Gets Off Sierra Club organizer Bob Clark was leading a hike when he was assaulted by a dirt biker riding illegally in Recommended Wilderness near the Idaho-Montana border. Despite excellent police work by the Forest Service, the feds didn’t prosecute the case. Instead, an Idaho county issued a warrant for felony aggravated assault but let the repeat offender off the hook with a small fine. Read more in the September 8 edition of the Missoulian. more ...
	Essay: The Wildland/New Urbanist Interface Wildlands CPR focuses our work on wildlands, not the urban growth and road issues which our founding organization tackled. But now we’ve come full circle, with our restoration program partnering with those working on community revitalization — restoring the natural link between wildlands, watersheds and the built environment. more ...
	Featured Resource: User Conflict Incident Report Form The “User Conflict Incident Report Form” is a must-have item for every visitor to public lands. The simplest of Wildlands CPR’s monitoring forms, this form prepares and enables citizens to document damage and conflicts caused by off-road vehicles riding where they’re not supposed to be. Please carry a copy of this form every time you visit our public lands. more ...
	Image of the Week: Wolf on removed road in Idaho A motion-sensitive camera captured this night-time image in April 2007. The wolf was trotting along a removed road on the Powell Ranger District of the Clearwater National Forest. The removed road had been part of a network of logging roads that was removed as part of a watershed restoration initiative led by the Nez Perce Tribe and being studied by Wildlands CPR. more ...

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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August 27, 2007

wildlandscpr — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:17:33 -0600

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.

	$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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

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