So many articles I read and 75% of the riders say the same thing, "no where to ride", or " hard time with county/community letting me ride.' You can't do this alone thanks to all the tree huggers in this world. Those who enjoy the sport and the outdoors must come together as one voice and find land to enjoy, rent/lease land to enjoy, take care of the land and make a documented example ( there are many grants available out there for environmental issues, yes the same lobbyists that fight us also make money available to us to protact the land, and also an atv club should always post pictures on sites and even in the local paper to show them repairing land, building bridges, cleaning up litter anything a tree hugger would get there "rocks off" on , because if there is an atv, hunting, or horse riding incident in that area that could discredit the sport IT WILL BE IN THE PAPER!) You can't do this alone, check with local hunting clubs real estate agents with just sitting(owner still has to pay taxes on it) logging companies, old mines and old land fills. After establishing a group make legal, have a P.R. officer and a person in charge of public relations. Offer assistance to local police, fire and rescue in a formal letter and ask for a few courses, we (atvers) have been proven very effective in search and rescue, hell just watch tv, you don't see any tree huggers trying to stop a rescue. Just use your resources and wisely, good public relations and advertisement is a must then after getting land( I reffered to hunt clubs earlier cause they like to hunt, but not somuch of land maintenence and cutting new trails this is a perfect place to start we need them they need us.) Even go so far as to conduct fund raisers ( 24 our rides, poker run so forth) and donate some to charity. What we are doing now is not as effective as it used to be. Step one- if you see riders doing harm to the sport, stop or report them!

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Mathews County 4-H Muddrunners advisor, ASI Instructor
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