This Is Huge

Your Chance To Provide Positive Comments About Motorized Recreation
By Americans forResponsible Recreation Access
Earlierthis yearPresident Obama held a conference on America’s Great Outdoors and established the America’s Great
Outdoors Initiative to be led by the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency and the Chairof the Council of Environmental Quality. The initiative is tasked with reconnecting
Americans, especially children, to the outdoors and they have asked forpublic input and ideas.
It is vitally important that the Administration hearfrom you about how you recreate on and enjoy public lands. We can be
sure that they are hearing from those who would support limiting orending access formotorized recreation, but we have an
opportunity to tell ourside of the story as well. So visit http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors, sign-up, and weigh in.
Now is the time to make it clearthat OHVrecreation is a family-oriented activity that allows forfamilies to spend quality
time outdoors. Too often OHVrecreation is defined by the renegade few who behave irresponsibly. Please take this
opportunity to make it clearthat millions of Americans responsibly enjoy motorized recreation on public lands.
Talking Points:
OHVuse is a legitimate, sustainable use of appropriate public lands, particularly on National Forests and Bureau of
Land Management Units.
* Motorized recreation is a healthy family activity and provides a great opportunity forfamilies to “get away from it
all,” and to experience the great outdoors.
* OHVers, like otherrecreationists, seek opportunities to not only enjoy the riding experience, but also opportunities
to learn more about cultural and historical context, take in scenic views, observe wildlife, camp, hunt, fish and
participate in many otheractivities.
* The overwhelming majority of OHVers are conservationists, who seek to preserve the same outdoorexperiences they
enjoy forchildren and grandchildren.
OHVers are volunteers. OHVclubs and organizations groom and maintain trails, trailheads and otherfacilities as
well as adopt trails and provide the tools and experience needed for constructing and maintaining all sorts of
recreational trails; not just OHVopportunities.
* ATVand off-highway motorcycle riding encourage and promote physical fitness.
* OHVs provide the opportunity forAmericans of all ages and physical capabilities to enjoy the outdoors.
So please take a few minutes to visit http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors and have yourvoiceheard.
Americans forResponsible Recreation Access
1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005