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Presidents Corner
(Welcome to AZOHVC) |
Written by: Steve
Carmickle on March 23, 2005
Welcome to the
Arizona Off Highway Vehicle Coalition Website. Our goal is to
keep Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) clubs, organizations, businesses
and individuals informed with the most current information from
Federal, State and Local Land Management Agencies that could
impact OHV usage in the areas that you recreate in.
Today, Arizona public lands are under assault by extreme
environmental groups that do not believe in sensible land
management polices. These groups have agendas that close or
limit OHV activities in vast areas of our state that currently
are open to OHV usage. The AZOHVC believes that by combining the
strengths of the many OHV Groups in Arizona and partnering with
other outdoor organizations that use the same trails, we will be
able to affect land use issues in a more positive way.
In the past, the OHV community, through disinformation, has been
portrayed as being against sound environmental policies that
protect the environment. This is far from the truth. In fact, we
are one of the major sources for volunteers, trail signage and
area clean ups for Federal, State and Local Land Management
agencies. The real story is that the OHV community is against
extreme environmental policies that have been enacted based on
half truths and emotion, instead of scientic evidence and fact.
The AZOHVC will challenge any policy that that limits OHV
activities in any area without good sound reasons.
The AZOHVC was formed because many of the OHV groups were seeing
Federal, State and Local Land Management Organizations being
pressured by extreme environmental groups, and lack of resouces,
to close areas to OHV users. We all know that it is always
easier to close an area, than to keep it open for OHV usage. We
realized that in Arizona. the time has come for the OHV
community to work together and act as one voice to preserve the
areas we ride in and love to take our families to.
The AZOHVC has committed to being your mouth piece to Federal,
State and County Legislators, Public and Private Land Managers
and Law Enforcement to make sure that fair and equitable land
management policies are enacted while educating new riders and
the general public of positive activities being done by OHV
groups.
If you are not part of the AZOHVC please join today. When we
band together we are a political, as well as an economic force,
to be listened to. You control the access to your public lands,
no one else. Help AZOHVC be your tool to make it happen.
Thanks for your support,
Steve Carmickle
Past President
Arizona Off Highway Vehicle Coalition
