Group suing Santa Fe National Forest

A statewide off-highway vehicle user group is suing the Santa Fe National Forest over its travel management plan. 

The New Mexico Off Highway Vehicle Alliance filed the lawsuit in federal court Tuesday. The group's president, Jim Tyldesley, says the complaint is being filed on behalf of all forest users. He contends the plan closes more than 70 percent of existing roads and trails on the northern New Mexico forest, significantly reduces camping options and makes it difficult for hunters to retrieve game. 

The plan was signed by Forest Supervisor Maria Garcia in June. After a flurry of appeals, regional officials upheld the plan in October. 



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TweenerLJ said...

Good! the Forest Service is taking a situation that was working just fine, and is engineering problems where there were none up to now. Up to now the camping was dispersed and the land had time to recover, People had privacy from each other.

The FS is deliberately creating an artificial shortage of camping. They’re crowding too many people on too few miles of road. By doing this they are creating user conflict and over-used areas. This will be the set-up for their next assault: they’ll claim camping is causing too much conflict and damage and has to be banned altogether.

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