These recreation access opponents have incredible financial resources at their disposal and a fanatical resolve to eliminate many forms of recreation entirely. The BlueRibbon Coalition must continue to combine the strength of ALL off-highway recreationists to address these threats and protect recreation access for all. Speak softly and carry a big stick. We make full use of the administrative and political process in tackling land use issues. Unfortunately, our lack of participation in the legal arena in the past has minimized our victories.
Some land managers make decisions based on legal threats by recreation access opponents.
Our Legal Action Fund has enabled us to counter those threats. We must use it carefully and efficiently. Wilderness advocates have taken advantage of this situation to promote Wilderness designation as a means to protect these areas. Wilderness designation was originally conceived as appropriate for about ten million acres of Primitive Areas. Wilderness advocates have since corrupted the concept to a system of over one hundred million acres and they say we need much more.