FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
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The most frequently asked question we get is WHYis the FS closing access.
We have found that a closure agenda is being put forth by agency folks that support more wilderness and a couple of reasons the Forest Service is using to support these closures are that the USDA has a backlog of trail maintenance nationwide and in an effort to reduce this backlog they obliterate roads and trails. Secondly they use the statement that Bosworth made about motorized recreation being a threat to public lands. The FS does not mention that Bosworth used the word unregulated in his statement. The FS in Montana has failed to recognize that we have had regulated use of motorized recreation since 2001 when the 3 State OHV Rule was implimented. Trail inventories in Montana show very little if any resource damage or off trail riding. The closures of access to federally managed public lands statewide seem to be coming from a preconceived agenda.