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Map It or Lose It!
The Forest Service's nationwide trail-inventory program, now under way, can help off-road riders get official recognition for their favorite trails. And the first step ion that process is mapping the trails that currently exist.
Don't know where to begin? Not to worry -- the National Off-Highway Vehicle Conservation Council, the Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition and videographer Lloyd Liebetrau of L&M Productions can help.
With the blessing of Forest Service officials, they are collaborating on a DVD that explains how to use global positioning systems to map trails in a form that can be transferred to official maps.
The DVD will offer a step-by-step guide to riding your favorite trails, marking waypoints on the GPS map, and turning that information in to local forest managers.
"It's critical that off-highway vehicle recreationists are involved in letting the Forest Service know where they ride," says Russ Ehnes, NOHVCC executive director, "because if they ride on a trail, and that trail doesn't make it into the Forest Service inventory, the trail will be closed."
The EVD is available to anyone who needs to map trails or roads for any land-use process.
To get a DVD, contact NOHVCC at (800) 3486487, or e-mail trailhead@nohvcc.org.
**Reprinted courtesy of American Motorcyclist Association, (800) AMA-JOIN.