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Originally Posted by Tass
The initial thrust for travel management began with the RARE I and RARE II thrusts by the Department of Agriculture/USFS in the early 70's......... I and others in the Northwest have been attempting to deal with this issue since that time frame.............Tass
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To address the RARE issue: RARE I & II (Road Area Review and Evaluation) had nothing to do with ATVs or Trucks! It simply stated you could not create NEW roads in designated Roadless Areas. You could do as you wish with existing roads and ride where you wish, so I don't know what you're talking about on the RARE front. Maybe there's some confusion on the matter out west....Not sure. It wasn't until Bush put his official "Travel Managment" program into place that they started closing down EXISTING roads. This is the problem for current use.
And by the way, the Forest Service is bending over backwards trying to create official trails from ATV trails that are made willy-nilly in large parts of [some] forests. It's a big system....and it's hard to lump problems all together.