Comments on: Riding Roughshod

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:33:43 +0000

If there were trails running along side state highways, lets say 100 feet parallel from the road, the A.T.V. riders would’nt disturb any more wild life than the cars and trucks already do. The riders would also benifit from the highway in case they need help, and law enforcement can access the trail from the highway incase anyone misbehaves. If you force all A.T.V. traffic on to a very small area, it will inevitably get worn out. Nobody wants that to happen. Most A.T.V. riders are very enviromentaly friendly, and appreciate the great outdoors. More trails along side of the highways means less wear and tear on each trail, and we can all benefit from that. We are not villians and deserve a reasonable place to ride responsibly, without harrassment. You will always be able to find a picture of people behaving badly. Please don’t paint us all with that brush. Just like everybody else, we deserve a place to be. And as long as everybody acts respectfully towards each other, and the enviroment, we can all enjoy life.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:23:27 +0000

People got to get law makers to push laws hard to stop ATV riders from using state lands and parks.It is bad enough to have ATV’s riding over private lands where they feel they have a right to destroy anything in their way.They do not even ask the land owner if they can come on to the land or cross the land.Even had some that went and rode through the new corn or soy making it a mess and hard to harvest what was left at the end of the season.Leave gates open so that some animals can get out or chasing after horses.
I have seen places where it was only for horses,walking, or bicycling now gone because of the ATV digging the area up and tearing trees down.We had great trout stream turn into mud holes so that ATV’s can ride up and down the streams.Then just this pass deer season a group of ATV riders ran a small herb of deer in to a field of heavy snow and raced around 2 of the deer till they where dead then drove away.Called the DEC but it was the next day before they got there and nothing was done.
Also they have to make stronger laws keeping them off the roads.We have them here and they race each other up and down the streets,roads and some have even taken to the local highways.
It would nice to see all ATV riders to go to driver training like car owners, get plates, and insurance.so that if they do come on state land or your land you can get a plate number and take the insurance for damages.It also should be a law no kids under 18 rides without a adult. No drinking or drugs or guns and riding.Then they need to make a stronger law that you do not have small children ride with an adult that has no safety seat, seat belt of any kind or no helmet.Example there is a mother and father that race back and forworth

By: CLF Scoop» Blog Archive » ATVs in VT: Riding Roughshod Part 2

CLF Scoop» Blog Archive » ATVs in VT: Riding Roughshod Part 2 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:38:52 +0000

[...] As I wrote earlier on this blog, the agency leadership revved its engines and ran right over opposition from concerned members of the public who commented on the rule–by the agency’s own estimate, commenters opposed the proposal by a ratio of 4-to-1. The professional objections of its own scientists, game wardens, and on-the-ground land managers didn’t slow agency leaders down either. In public documents obtained by CLF and reported in the press, career Agency employees expressed concerns about the damage to public and private property caused by illegal ATV use that ANR already struggles to control with existing resources. They also worried about the strain that managing the numerous public safety and environmental impacts surrounding ATV trails would place on an understaffed agency reeling from more job cuts. [...]