This is a turn of events regarding OHV’s and the minimal fines that have been applicable in Montana. Currently fines are roughly $50 per offense, this Bill proposes $500 and jail time.
Bill proposes stiff fines for off-roading on closed lands. By Kahrin Deines. Montana Standard.
March 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM
This is awesome.
March 19, 2009 at 9:29 PM
They need something like this in Idaho also. There is little enforcement of riding on closed trails or making your own new trails and as a result there is little respect for the off road rules.
March 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM
It is a problem in Montana and an EPIDEMIC in Idaho. Elkchaser if you are in SE Idaho we need to get you plugged into our grassroots effort. Just yesterday I watched a group come down off of Chinamen’s peak in a ORV,ATV, or whatever the heck you want to call it, we might need a new acronym for this “4-wheeler” with cat tracks. they obviously had a key to the gate which they opened (it isn’t supposed to be open until april 15th). Another guy saw this, went home, got his bike. parked and made a loop around buckskin with his motorbike as we were pushing my boy up the road in his stroller.
My favorite is waking up at 430 am, getting to my spot a mile off a road and having someone drive down the ridge I am set up on a half hour after daylight (no road). Planning to shoot an animal from their vehicle WITH A BOW!!!!
I realize there needs to be opportunities for those that can’t hike anymore but I have at least one bad experience every year and it has never been someone that isn’t capable of gettting their lazy butt off their vehicle and hiking.
March 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM
What a great thing this would be for Idaho and Island Park! Hope Montana succeeds.