If You Ride
You Can Protect, Respect, and Report
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Everyone has the right to enjoy our National Forests, no one has the right to abuse them. |
Motorized recreation on public lands can be taken away. To protect this opportunity, riders need to do everything possible to protect natural resources such as wildlife habitat.
Entire riding areas and trail systems can be closed because of irresponsible riders and the impacts they’re causing. It is illegal to operate any OHV in a manner that will cause damage to the environment by excessive pollution of air, land, or water, abuse the watershed, impair plant or animal life, or create excessive noise.
Obey the law and stay on designated routes. You can make a difference by using common sense to protect natural resources, respect the law, and report abuse from irresponsible riders.
Protect
Stay on designated routes
Do not ride in open meadows
Do not ride in streams or on their banks
Do not ride up steep and erodible slopes
Do not ride over small trees or shrubs
Only cross streams where designated routes allow
To avoid widening the route do not drive around obstacles
Game retrieval off route is illegal
Respect
Comply with all signs and barriers
Comply with seasonal closures
Never harass wildlife
Never litter
Get permission to cross private property
Yield to hikers, bikers and horses
Keep noise to a minimum
Do not alter the exhaust system
Carry current Travel Plan map
Join the local Goodwill Riders patrol
Report
If you witness abuse contact:
The U.S. Forest Service: 435-755-3620
Cache County Sheriff: 435-716-9400
Please note location and vehicle description (snowmobile, motorcycle, ATV) including color and rider’s clothing and helmet colors and best of all a sticker number. If possible, take a photo and GPS reading
