| OCR Text |
Show June Wednesday, Standard-Examiner 2002 5, COVER XPLORE Key land to National Shoshone Proposed Trail Recreation STORY System use Beaver Forest Service Mt. land Garden E Wilderness Private U City area Franklin- and BLM Open land •The Sinks Mount motorized use to Naomi Existing/not open Bear Lake Temple, Wilderness Fork y Area Lake Town 91 30 Logan 30 Wasatch Nationa Forest Creek Little Wellsville Campground Providence Mountains Wilderness/ Randolph 165, Area Hyrum Left Hyrum Hand Fork 16 Hardware Reservoir : Paradise Ranch 89 Avon 0 Porcupine Reservoir Brigham D City ¿Doc's Arbs Woodruff Basin Photo Flat This 15 Recreation National / Liberty/ Avon Road critics say <2 Willard Monte tools, Standard-Examiner A place By BRYCE PETERSEN Standard-Examiner M -ter everyone should has including Rep. Jim views on Some agrees: done to bet doubled in allow Utah, in five fear proposal Hansen's trails. ATV estimated an vehicles damage watersheds, harass and wildlife, and negatively livestock the recreational of Nielson, County experiences rant? The speech environmentalist? No. proposed the of for House The Hansen recent mittee ing its The includes of and links Along with the turn before - passed and the 337 is full trail's proposed about the the miles federal come are hoping for for $500,000 motorized users. designation would State money. $3 for over money a million few years, in Web Club system Trail site. would increase the argue national giving managers enforcement, and illegal off-road to Sierra Club Shoshone proposed more motorists activities. mess. James Trail V. in costs. The first $500,000 matched with funds would officials one-time com await now House. existing tax and hire two full-time gin trail promotion Hayes, between state OHV say will spread tle Opponents Off-road posal crease as by the to officers, be improve coor agencies, Fred a coordinator, said. enthusiasts hail the pro to increase safety, de way abuse and ers trail riding Lake accommodate the the Salt Lake of B estimated designated have nowhere to others for closed be climbing a say 50 In only miles and wildlife, link it attracts they go, the Bounti long-distance trails out-of-staters and routes deer will creased use. "We have paring Jim reason. be Catlin of the Wild Utah Proj- lit together, leads to migratory staging grounds to the at the be able effect on bill the trail, there quirements to in wildlife com migra still can adapt "Animals things." mentions process for user con additions no mention of limit impacts to is to Alaskan caribou those to the the caribou he easily and that adapt to of concerns says, frequently. seen notion never found that change," he said, where, flicts said it pipeline's pretty is are closed reason they users) have not cause they (motorized been very good stewards of the land," on elk not handle While "The and balks Hansen tion, are impacts wildlife be the on very leaving sites," Barrie sage and grouse nesting Gilbert, professor of ecology at Utah State University, said. can't to trail sys impacts is the main access affects wildlife. And when that you of open. the out "Motorized where cryptogamic over said. Hayes But instance, an riding or soil," for own City limited. are roads going are ful relatively County, miles OHV half of is "If they used and than north Di Utah Recreation re expanded an undisturbed. thing The group. Parks live be generated and land of ATV be growing vision 2.1 would patrol rapidly Salt a map currently of OHV dination the Critics habitat will it damage. ports more including start-up state's Representatives. renamed the Shoshone National amendment with the mandate to comes additions that would provide Shoshone trail unanimously alternative tem say control. and environmental more polarizes Proponents safety fun, and loops a support Trail before National Recreation Natural Resources Committee of U.S. Sierra by for routes, roads pursue oth Bryce wildlife and Rich a manager expressing his commissioner, for a trail habitat increased affect ers." radical the Proponents the bigger a vehicles, Off-highway currently as managed, "frequently impact and hiker's lands. increased funding enjoyable to improved improve years. A and to ect. be manage that nearby of would JR. off-highway a number or go staff thing 130,000 to abuse well-marked, a Trail, according expanded an designation L Peak ost and use Heponset Reservoir Cristol City, is adjacent Brigham hill, near courtesyof Ogden See to re wild TRAIL/5 |
