I need your help...

[DRM]

I'll make this short and sweet:

The OHV (off highway vehicle) community needs your help - One of the premiere and few OHV areas in this region is about to be closed down. The Forest Service wants to close the Upper Tellico OHV area for good on April 1, 2009.

They basically want to lock an entire segment of the public - OHV users - out of public land, based primarily on flawed research and their own personal desire to not put the effort into making the OHV area work.

So if you could, please go to the following link and write a short letter voicing your concern over this closure. We have until the last week of this month to enter comments into the record on this process and try to stop yet another grab at our freedoms. Even if you don't use an OHV - as a citizen you should be concerned when they unfairly want to limit who can use our PUBLIC lands.

You can check the talking points mentioned in the link if you want some details on what is going on, or you can ask me here and I will explain what I can further for those who are interested.

All I am asking for is 5 minutes of your time to send an email to the Forest Service on behalf of myself, my family, and OHV users across the country.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/letters/

I know the link says it's in NC - but it's actually on the TN/NC border.

A BIG 'thank you' to each of you who decide to take just a few minutes to help us out.

[Guest db99wj]

Letter sent.

Thanks for posting this.

[DRM]

Did I not give enough info, or what? I'd have hoped for at least a handful of letters from you guys...

There is a very dangerous effort to lock us our of access and freedom one "group" at a time. When you don't recognize this and do something - even though it isn't *your* group - you will eventually wonder why nobody is there to help you when they come to take YOUR freedom and access away.

[Guest JHatmaker]

Letter sent. Good luck w/ everything.

[Guest Astra900]

I could care less for four wheeling personally, but running you off of PUBLIC land is BS. If you enjoy it, and aren't breaking any laws, they need to be told to got to h3\\. I hope you win your fight, I sent my letter just before posting this. Good luck buddy:up:

[Guest theoldguy]

message sent and good luck..they just keep chiseling away at the things we love most.

[Rightwinger]

Never off roaded on public land, but if I decide I want to, it should be there to do so.

Letter sent

[DRM]

Thanks guys - every little bit helps.