Welcome to the Land Use/OHV Parks forum - Presented by Cycle Gear

[budman]

Bay Area Riders Forum is looking to help many other organizations in the fight for our rights where appropriate by rallying barf members and others who visit barf to take action when necessary.

There are not many laws that come out that are in favor of Motorcycling and we need to stand our ground as American Citizens that vote and fight for our rights.

The latest invasions to that have been:
* The $$$ grab from the OHV Parks system.
* The continued battle over Clear Creek.

There needs to be a cross over as well from all motorcyclists. If you just ride street -- we need your support.

If you just compete -- we need your support.

If you just are a 4 Wheeler -- we need your support.

If you just use the dirt roads in these to go hunting or fishing or rock climbing -- we need your support.

If you want to protect the environment -- we need your support.

Coming together as two wheel / off road enthusiast needs to get stronger so we can protect our right to ride.

BARF Supports the Sport

If you don't think we are under attack wake up!!
http://www.sierranevadaconservation.org/Travel Management/OHV report 699.pdf

Posting in the POR Forum
This forum should be considered serious and post whoring will not be
tolerated. So please be aware we may edit out useless posts. Posts of support won't be, but we will remove crap and if you continue and suspension may be issued.

I hope you get involved for yourself and future generations. :flag

 

[Butch]

Activism; an Editorial from a concerned AMA member

ADVOCACY DISPARITY
Taking Action, Crossing The Divide By Bob Adams
One reason motorcyclists get the short end of stick on many issues is that not enough of us advocate for what we want.
Public comment is a powerful tool. Public participation is an even better one. For either to work, numbers count, just like a tug-of-war with the only limit being how many people you can get to pull on your side and no limit to the number of participants.
Twenty or 30 people can make a big di erence at small meetings. On the other hand, when 20 wild-horse advocates tried to disrupt a U.S. Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Council meeting in a large convention hall with several hundred people unsympathetic to their cause, they looked silly. But, what if there had been 100 of them?
The power of advocacy groups comes from membership numbers. Their greatest clout is realized by an active membership making phone calls, writing letters and sending emails to the o cials.
AMA Action Alerts provide info to make calls and write comments, and letter generators make sending your comment easier than buying mp3’s from Amazon. But most of us don’t comment. If you’re not commenting on things you care about, ask yourself why. It can’t be because you didn’t know, it’s too hard, or you don’t have the time.

We Used To Work Together
Bruce Springsteen, interviewed at age 67—same age as me—talked about growing up in a time when politics was in our music and in our lives. Woodstock was seen more as a political event than a weekend of self-indulgence. Facing short supplies, lack of services—all made worse by bad weather—everyone pulled together so everyone got through.
JFK’s charge to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” was reinforcement of that national ethos. We thought in terms of our obligations.
Today, many of the barriers to upward social/economic mobility are gone, but so are the good paying industrial jobs that many high school graduates of Springsteen’s generation counted on. When people believe they no longer have the same opportunity as their neighbor, communities become divided, and it is harder to come together, even on common interests.

The Price Of Apathy
We lose what we don’t use. Muscle strength disappears within weeks of inactivity. Our middle-class work ethic, our obligation to earn a living to support ourselves and our families, remains intact, but for many, the sense of obligation to participate in government has been lost.
In a nation of government “of, by, and for the people,” I rarely hear the term “our government” anymore. By not being involved, we’ve taken big hits.
O -road riders have lost a whole bunch of public land we once took for granted. We used to talk in terms of what’s closed. Today we talk in terms of what’s left. And “what’s left” is at risk.

Our Message
President Donald Trump tapped into middle-class rage to get elected. But we can’t assume he’s going to take us where we want to go without our telling him. We need to make our message plain: Americans are fed up with people who won’t be a ected by the consequences making bad policies for places they know nothing about and have never visited.
Expressing dislike for an environmentalist’s strategy is not the same as hating the environment. Disregard for the environment doesn’t make sense, and it alienates people who otherwise may be on our side. We are rational environmentalists. There are goals and strategies that provide common ground for OHV enthusiasts and those who believe we destroy the Earth.
With so much lost and so much still at stake, why don’t we participate in our government?
If all of us see issue advocacy as a citizen’s obligation to participate and never give up, our comments will count, because numbers count. Write our new president a letter. Introduce yourself as a citizen and as a rider. Ask him to keep public land open to the public. Tell him why o -highway riding is important to you. Tell him why it’s a sustainable and appropriate use of public land.
Our message is a message he’s got to hear so many times he’ll know it has to be true.

Bob Adams is a Life Member of the AMA and AMA District 35. His contact info in Pahrump, Nev., is radams@racemran.com.