Area Restrictions Questioning the Rationale

[HappyJack]

Atv/orv restrictions don't make much sense either, if you can road hunt in a truck why can't you from your atv? You can't even ride the atv during certain hours in the mornings but while you are walking you get passed by jacked up Datsuns, jeeps, and black duelly Dodge Ram's. Sometimes some licensed vehicles are even running around on atv trails and driving through deactivations...but heaven forbid if you ride an atv/orv.

Any reasoning for this?

[Treed]

We should be deactivating way more roads everywhere. Take a look at imagery from the 80s compared to now. The increase in road density will get worse. We’ll lose areas and lakes because of deactivating roads, but I’m happy to accept that given the benefits to wildlife and ecosystems. There’s fire work starting in Sept around Heffley lake too. Hope they get it cleaned up this fall

[TeeVee]

We should be deactivating way more roads everywhere. Take a look at imagery from the 80s compared to now. The increase in road density will get worse. We’ll lose areas and lakes because of deactivating roads, but I’m happy to accept that given the benefits to wildlife and ecosystems. There’s fire work starting in Sept around Heffley lake too. Hope they get it cleaned up this fall

100% agree. Way too much access these days!

[HappyJack]

One good thing about plentiful access, it spreads the pressure around a lot. It would be cheaper to just make it law that you have to hunt within 100 yards of a FSR, no trails or secondary roads permitted. That way they wouldn't have to spend money deactivating roads and they could keep them open for fighting forest fires, and the COs could just patrol the main roads to check out all the hunting camps. Or they could just shut down all the september and october hunting seasons, that would reduce hunting pressure. Except for guys over 60, we need to be given special consideration.