USFS looking for OHV money from State Parks
The Forest Service will be submitting an annual application to the state Department of Parks and Recreation, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division. This application requests funding to provide trail maintenance, restoration, conservation, patrolling, education and law enforcement for over the snow and off-highway vehicle trails and areas.
These grants will be available for public review and comment until April 4 online.
Any comments that are submitted to this site will go to the state and to the individual National Forest.
“These annual grants have provided important funds for the Forest Service to maintain the trails, repair winter storm damage and restore trailside environments as well as enabling more patrolling and monitoring of these sites. The Forest Service is requesting over $1 million this year,” David Michael, Tahoe National Forest Trails and OHV manager, said in a statement.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the USFS, which seems to favor closing all public lands to any vehicular traffic, now wants grant money from the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle money pool? Of course, my cynical view is that they will use the money for more draconian enforcement and further restrictions on the general public in “their” forest.
The State of CA just took $10 mil from the off HWY fund. USFS should be turned down till the state pays it back – which it never will. Sort of like our social security borrowed by the gov’t. It will never be paid back. Why? The public doesn’t care!