Ask the Forest Service to issue a closure order before this summer . Urge the Forest Service to act quickly, before more damage occurs. Support efforts to increase law enforcement . That may be true. Encourage the forest service to catch those folks who flaunt the law, and support plans to construct physical barriers to motorized use at trailheads.
Personal letters are always the most compelling.
Troublesome is included in pending federal wilderness legislation and is part of the Citizens' Wilderness Proposal. Continued motorized use of this trail will undermine efforts to designate Troublesome as wilderness. Closing the trail to motorized use will help the effort to designate this area as wilderness by helping to ensure that the area remains in a natural state until Congress acts. The trail has been kept open to motorbike use even though most of the trail lies in a non-motorized area, and the trail passes through fragile tundra on the Continental Divide and Arapaho Ridge, where there are few physical barriers to keep dirtbikes on the trail. Motorized use on this trail, almost nonexistent 3 years ago, has increased greatly, with tracks both on and off the trail in many locations, as well as along the Continental Divide Trail.