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Enjoying, Protecting, and Expanding Montana OHV Riding Opportunities
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Capital Trail Vehicle Association was started in 1988 by eight dirt bike riding enthusiasts. The club quickly grew to more than 100 members and it was all about riding and enjoying the Montana forests.
Years passed and some of our members graduated from 2 wheels to 4, but our focus remained on riding. In 2000 this started to change when the USFS adopted a very different forestry management philosophy from the “Land of Multiple Use”. The USFS had governed with a multiple-use philosophy since the Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960. The essence of this Act was balancing the use of the forest between the public and private users. It sought to give equal weight to all uses, each with the other, including outdoor recreation, range, timber, watershed, and wildlife and fish. The Act sought to accommodate all these uses in the same forests, thus the term “multiple use”.
This all changed with the passage of the 2000 National Forest System Land Resource Management Planning Rule, also known as the 2000 Planning Rule. This Planning Rule has been revised over the years and was last updated in 2012. One of the main results of this Act was to pit one land user against another. Rather than sharing the forests, we had to compete against other users. This change was so apparent that the USFS changed their slogan from “Land of Multiple Use” to “Land of Many Uses”. Rather than accommodating all users in the same forests, they now acknowledged that each user would have to carve out their own section of the forest and fight to keep other users out.
Another major impact of the 2000 Planning Rule was the elimination of motorized roads and trails in the National Forests. Since 2000, Montana has seen a reduction of over 20,000 miles of roads and trails on USFS land which amounts to an 82% reduction of available roads and trails.
