want to help save trails?

[*Darcy*]

want to help save trails? All is not lost with Tellico, lets assist another group save their trail from the same fate.

Learn the facts, write your letters, save THEIR trails, and when the time comes for us to call on other 4x4 groups from different regions to help save OUR trails, i bet they will follow suit because we helped them.

Farmington, NM - The Glade, Choke Cherry Canyon vs. Mtn Bikers

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=842701

http://ttora.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146978

[*Darcy*]

nice little easy to fill out comment form: (ITS EASY PEOPLE!)

Write it like you're thinking of Tellico <-- this is "their" Tellico ... keep their backyard trails from being shut down.

http://www.nm.blm.gov/glade_run/glade_run_comment_form.html

[gregers05]

done. actually saw that survey on pirate last week and did it.

[*Darcy*]

::From UFWDA Monthly Newsletter::

From a posting on Pirate 4x4... “we just need more responses to the BLM on the Glade Run Rec Area. The newspaper poll that was posted is way over 1000 for keeping the Glade open to 60 for closing it.

But the important response will be the BLM Form at


http://www.nm.blm.gov/glade_run/glad...ment_form.html

We need as many responses sent in to let them know that the Glade is an important recreation area for the 4X4, ATV, UTV and motorcycle crowd. That it brings much revenue into the Farmington area with the Rock Crawling Championships it hosts each year, the 4X4 enthusiasts that travel to the Glade to off-road and that closing it would only push the crowd elsewhere and lose money for this area.


Plus, we need to write letters to the US Congressman Ben Lujan at his website, http://lujan.house.gov / pointing out how important this area is for those same reasons. Stress the fact that over 26%... one of out every four persons over the age of 16 in New Mexico is involved with off-roading, and under the age of 50, those percentages climb drastically as in the USDA US Forest Service Survey released June 2005”

Farmington NM was the location of the first UFWDA convention and AGM that I attended back in 2001 and my first taste of four wheeling US style. Even then it was an area that I'd consider needed some tourist spending to help the local economy and that alone should justify encouraging 4x4 use of the Choke Cherry Canyon area. Oh, besides that it also offered some excellent rock crawl options.

Peter Vahry
International vice-president