He needs help with slides that talk about the positive impact of wheeling.
Please post up ideas here! Scott has no access during the day so he asked me to post this call for help!
Here is a transcript of some previous discussion of what is needed and ideas:
I think there needs to be an additional page on tread Lightly and a page on maintenance with our using DRED's BMP best management practices for erosion control during maintenance and Construction).
http://www.nhtrails.org/Trailspages/BMP.html
I also think we should have a slide about economic impact to communities when we are there and maybe a picture of camping/stopping at store/icecram etc.
It's also a crash course PR tool for the NEA.
I have seen statistics around talking about how many 4x4 recreational drivers there are and how fast it's growing - translate that into demand and you get good income for the parks department PLUS they acheive their goal of having popular and attractive parks in the state
My suggestions BTW are:
* allows young families and those with limited mobility to enjoy the outdoors
* people can use their existing vehicle for recreation, making it affordable for more people
* benefits local businesses
This site has some good data: http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/trends/
one report shows that only 8.1% of the US population snowmobile, while 37.5% drive off road. interesting, since snomobiling is so far ahead in terms of organizational acceptance....
check this data out: http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/trends/RECUPDA ... pdate3.pdf
unfortunately, this report and the statistics I quoted above don't seem to break ATV apart from jeeps.
any bullet points or other suggestions/blurbs would help.
PICTURES of good stuff helps too....families wheeling together, wheelers patronizing local businesses, disabled wheelers, etc.
THANK YOU and get cracking