National OHV Appreciation Day

Recreational Access and Conservation - Conservation and Public Service Activities

Dedicated to conservation and multiple use of public lands for recreation opportunities

Join thousands of OHV users of all types across the country as they celebrate National OHV Appreciation Day, September 28, 2002.

Volunteers are asked to contact their local area OHV groups and organizations to join them in helping improve and enhance the resources of public areas in and around their community. Your investment of time and work on litter pick-up; general landscaping and gardening; picnic table building; fence repairs; park trail maintenance; painting and staining trail signs; and the installation of completed trail signs will yield high returns for your local natural resources and your chosen OHV recreational trails.

This is not limited to any one type of OHV - four wheel drive, atv, dirt bike, snowmobile, mountain bike, and other friends out there.

This is for anyone who enjoys and supports recreation on our public lands.

Become a business sponsor or co-sponsor for these local area projects by supplying major resources. Provide intangibles, such as free publicity; act as a host for planning conferences. Recognize the projects that are completed in a public ceremony with awards. Supply materials for the work projects such as providing heavy equipment; supply tools; food; facilities; transportation for underpriviledged volunteers who would otherwise not be able to attend.

You should consider the following questions in determining whether this will work for a particular public land area or not.

Is there a valid need for a volunteer work day?

Are there projects where volunteers can make a significant contribution in one day? Examples: trails, bridges, installing signs, planting, repairing docks, area clean ups, or invasive species control.

Volunteers can build trails, plant stream banks, restore lakes and wetlands, remove invasive plants, improve wildlife habitat, repair cultural resources and recreational facilities, and carry out hundreds of other priority projects, they also learn about the importance of public lands to the nation's environmental issues. Most importantly, volunteers get a first hand perspective on the problems and issues public land managers face each year.

This day will provide Americans with a dramatic and productive opportunity to pitch in and help improve their public lands, and to know it wouldn't have happened as soon if it were not for the National OHV Appreciation Day 2002.

On September 28, join the Trail Krawlers 4x4 at Tuttle Creek OHV Area, or the Maryland Mudbugs 4x4Club, or contact your local public lands management office and volunteer your services for the day.

Contacts:	Related Links:
Rock-It-Land United Four Wheel Drive Associations BlueRibbon Coalition Southwest Four Wheel Drive Association Friends of the Rubicon Rockcrawler Crowley Off-Road	OutdoorWire Access for All Forums OutdoorWire's Environmental Policy Links from the OutdoorWire Link Index Blue Ribbon Coalition Tread Lightly!