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There are some things you just cannot put a price on, the annual family camping trip to that remote spot at the end of the forest road, mountain biking with your friends in the backcountry, trail bike riding on primitive forest trails, fishing with your child at your dad’s favorite spot, 4x4ing up that old logging road to your secret hunting camp.

Of course the key to enjoying all these special times is access to your public lands.

Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to ensure your grandchildren are able to enjoy all the same special places?

There is a way & it is called Semi-Primitive BackCountry Recreation Designation. It will preserve access to Public Lands for Future Generations. Ensure your grandkids are still able to ride a trail bike on existing forest trails to your favorite remote mountain lake. Ensure disabled people can reasonably access the backcountry on ATV’s or 4x4’s using designated trails.

Semi-Primitive BackCountry Recreation Designation will promote greater biodiversity by allowing active management under the strictest regulations in the world. Preserve access for all types of recreation & thereby provide greater tourism income for local economies, as well as jobs for renewable resource harvesting & thinning projects to keep the land healthy & reduce wildfire fuel.

What a great legacy to leave for our kids. Providing them with access to their public lands through all forms of recreation, while ensuring better forest health. Let’s make sure they can refresh & recharge by getting out in the backcountry. Sign the petition below to let your legislators know you want the BackCountry preserved for public access & management.

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Supporting the Designation of Public Lands for the Public & Opposing further Land Closures

Sponsor: Advocates for Access to Public Lands (www.access-advocates.org)

We the undersigned support the creation of a federally legislated Semi-Primitive BackCountry Recreation Designation to preserve all existing Multiple Use lands for all existing forms of recreation & management. This would be good for the environment by promoting bio-diversity & forest health through active management, good for the economy by preserving recreation opportunities, as well as long-term renewable resource jobs & products and good for the public by preserving all types of public access.

We oppose further land closures such as the California Wild Heritage Bill S-493, as well as the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.

In the past concessions have been made allowing other lands to be designated Wilderness, while leaving remaining lands open to Multiple Use. Contrary to these past agreements Wilderness advocates now want the remaining lands. Many of the proposed areas, if not all of them, do not meet the original intent of Wilderness, Wild & Scenic Rivers, National Parks or Preserve Areas.

Both of these wilderness bills undermine the many years of work & millions of dollars the public & Forest Service have spent on designating a motorized road & trail system. The bills have bypassed public involvement & would close thousands of miles of roads & trails, which are designated for Multiple Use & currently enjoyed by the public.

We are opposed to the creation of a pilot program of Wildland Restoration Areas, which propose to remove 6300 miles of backcountry roads without any public involvement.

We find these wilderness bills, as well as other restrictive proposals, will have a huge negative impact on the environment, rural economies, tourism & recreation, contrary to claims by those who drafted the bills. We are opposed to spending any of our tax dollars to remove roads, because these roads are beneficial & because these roads could be maintained for perhaps 30 years for what it will cost to remove them. Drafters of the bill claim short-term road removal jobs will more than offset sustainable long-term logging jobs lost, we strongly disagree. Long-term logging provides a renewable resource product in perpetuity, while paying taxes & providing jobs; whereas road removal provides short-term employment & eliminates recreation access.

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