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Scott is preparing to give a presentation on off road recreation THIS SATURDAY.
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

Anyone?

I can dig some pictures maybe of a tech day.....also a blub and picture(s) of the EGG is a must! Where can I put the pics?

Trail maintenance:

http://home.comcast.net/~maxhome/Pictures/WW_0920/2003_0920_131729AA.JPG

Egg Pictures:

http://home.comcast.net/~maxhome5/index.htm

Want any other pictures? I've got almost 3,900 jeep pics saved.

max

Wheelers and families lines up for safety inspection before run:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/mrfreakinwhite/MaBell%20Sept%204%202005/Trailheadairdown.jpg
Family and friends pull safety cable prior to steep ascent:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/mrfreakinwhite/MaBell%20Sept%204%202005/ca66c484.jpg
Children safely to the side as truck climbs:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/mrfreakinwhite/MaBell%20Sept%204%202005/011_15A.jpg
My daughter and I inspecting 4x4 Off Road Bus:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/mrfreakinwhite/potential%20cool%20bus/PICT0014.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/mrfreakinwhite/potential%20cool%20bus/PICT0013.jpg
Treading lightly, with children's music:
http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/mrfreakinwhite/vivid%20videos/?action=view&current=GutterBigRockLilVid_0001.flv

I'm not exactly sure how to frame this into a "positive impact" on society as a whole, but I see this as how organized four wheeling and having established dedicated trails can have a positive impact on the environment and the economy.

Organized ORV recreationalists push legislative bodies and private landowners for legal and suitable places to recreate. The more organized and educated the ORV recreationalists become, the larger the push becomes. Having legal, maintained, established trail networks allieviates the historic problems of offroading such as noise, tresspassing and environmentally sensitive property destruction. Simply stated giving these recreationalists a place to go will lessen all the supposed problems.
This is very similiar to the addage "If you outlaw guns, only outlaws have guns"

Jeeps, trucks, 4x4's, ATV's, Quads, etc are not going anywhere, they will not be outlawed. We will always have to "contend" with people wanting to go off-roading. In abscence of abolishing the sport, and the multi-million dollar industry, its simply best to work to establish sustainable trail systems for these recreationalists.

'sall I got right now.
You could work the economic thing in there too some more.

* 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

*trails on public lands reduces forest fire impact

There was a survey run a while back by EC4WD IIRC - Had some interesting statistics WRT economic impact (positve).
I don't have the details but you might remeber it Scotty. That might be a useful document.

You can also add that member clubs are actively seeking and being sought out for working relationships with state and local agencies looking to use their talents and expirtise to support Emergency mManagement and Preparedness efforts.

It's too bad the Master Trainer Certs slipped, however, everyone who went to the class JCW set up is still a TL Trainer. 15-20 in the ranks IIRC.