What's in Store for the OHV Community's Historically Amicable Relationship with the BLM?

In my work with the OHV community over the years I've often found the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to be one of the more un-biased government agencies that deals with public land issues.

Recently some respectable members of the OHV community have expressed their concerns that the recent nomination of Robert V. Abbey to the position of Director of the BLM by President Obama may jeopardize the long standing and mutually respectful relationship shared by Offroaders and the BLM.

For years certain environmental groups have spared no tax-payer's expense in coming up with ways of filing law-suits against OHV groups and other recreational management groups/plans based on circumstances that are not always founded on accurate scientific data.

Robert Abbey joined one of those groups, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), and the OHV community is understandably concerned about it. The BLM has been key in developing and maintaining a positive, successful relationship between OHVers and public lands, and the Center for Biological Diversity is actively opposed to what that relationship stands for.

By most accounts, Robert Abbey has been a good manager for the BLM, and we can only encourage him to make responsible, sound decisions that look at issues from all sides when it comes to land issues and the OHV community.

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