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Left Hand Canyon
| COHVCO is NOHVCC's 2006 State OHV Association of the Year | | Saturday, April 7, 2007 | | Russ Ehnes, Executive Director of the NOHVCC presented the award to COHVCO for their "history of very successful OHV Management Workshops and the strides COHVCO has taken leading the way with the development of the DVD for GPS training and their Colorado Trail Patrol and "Stay The Trail" programs promoting education and awareness of responsible OHV recreation in Colorado". | | Rollins Pass Opportunity and Meetings | | Saturday, April 7, 2007 | f you've ever ridden/driven Rollins Pass, or ridden the ski train to Winter Park from Denver, you know how beautiful this area is. The road wasn't developed for enviros to lock out the people, but rather to extract minerals and allow traffic via the train and wheeled vehicle. I would love to see a small group of dedicated individuals step up and help
John in this effort. COHVCO can provide some guidance, but can't put someone on the front lines for every meeting. Click through to see the rest of the information and meeting dates.
How about it? Want to help save access to our history and some great OHV
use? John has a plan - let's get some volunteers together! | | Snowy Range Travel Management EA Available | | Wednesday, November 15, 2006 | Here is a notice on the Snowy Range Travel Management EA, which deals with summer wheeled recreation, and no snowmobile issues. It is obvious that the Proposed Alternative isn’t nearly as good as Alternative 2. For those of you who have visited this area, it is a great motorcycle and ATV area in summer, and snowmobile area in winter.
| | COHVCO Files Appeal in Left Hand Canyon Decision | | Monday, July 31, 2006 | | COHVCO filed an appeal in the Left Hand Canyon Decision. Follow the link above to read a summary of COHVCO's appeal. |
GMUG Forest Plan Revision
| COHVCO/BLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT! | | Tuesday, July 11, 2006 | | The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Forest Service (FS) are initiating the Gunnison Travel Management Plan as a joint effort to designate summer routes by vehicle class and season of the use in the Gunnison Area. Your involvement is vital to the success of this travel planning effort, so don't wait, get involved now. During the month of July 2006, several open houses will be held to work with the Travel Plan Team and to review their map of system roads and trails. Follow the link above for more details. | | GMUG Forest Plan Update from Joani Dufourd | | Sunday, January 22, 2006 | | An update on the GMUG Forest Plan Revision from Joani Dufourd who is a consultant hired by COHVCO to draft comments in favor of motorized recreation. | | GMUG Forest Plan Revision Announcement | | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 | | The GMUG (Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison) National Forest Plan revision is underway. Here is how you can get critical documents that will affect motorized recreation in these important forests. If you are familiar with and play in these forests, get a copy of the documents and see for yourself how it will affect us. Then let COHVCO know what impacts you see (our team will catch most impacts, but local users will know best). Our team is hard at work on maintaining our motorized opportunities in this area. |
Colorado Roadless Initiative
| FINAL DEADLINE FOR ROADLESS COMMENTS - JUNE 30, 2006 | | Tuesday, June 27, 2006 | | The final deadline for comments to the Roadless Areas Task Force is June 30, 2006. We need as many motorized recreationists as possible to send in your comments. | | Grand Junction Roadless Meeting Thursday, June 22 @ 5:00PM! | | Wednesday, June 21, 2006 | | The last Colorado Roadless Initiative meeting will be held on Thursday, June 22, at 5:00 PM at the Country Inn on Horizon Drive in Grand Junction, Colorado. Read the rest of the item for an action alert from COHVCO and its supporting organizations. | | Your Last Chances For Public Input on the Colorado Roadless Rule | | Friday, June 16, 2006 | | Your Last Chances For Public Input on the Colorado Roadless Rule is June 21 in Glenwood Springs and June 22 in Grand Junction. Join COHVCO in letting the Roadless Area Task Force know that we don't need additional Roadless Areas, and those that exist should be managed under standard USFS Forest Plans! | | Roadless Areas Task Force Statewide Public Meeting | | Friday, February 17, 2006 | | February 24, 2006 at the Adams Mark Hotel in Denver | | Future Roadless Meetings | | Saturday, January 7, 2006 | | Here's an update on the Colorado roadless initiative and a list of future meetings. | | Miss that Roadless Meeting? Still want to voice your opinion? | | Saturday, January 7, 2006 | | If you missed the roadless meeting in Pueblo, but still want to voice your opinion or add some facts to the discussion, follow this link for a sample letter with contact information. | | NEXT ROADLESS MEETING, FRIDAY JANUARY 6, 2006 | | Thursday, January 5, 2006 | | The next roadless meeting will be held on Friday, January 2, 2006, at the Pueblo Convention Center from 5:00pm to 8:30pm. We need motorized fans from the Pueblo area to show up at the meeting to voice their opinions and keep "roadless" areas from becoming trail-less areas closed to motorized use. Click on the headline above for more details. | | What You Need to Do Today to Keep Your Trails and Roads Open | | Monday, December 5, 2005 | | Read this item for information on Colorado’s Roadless Initiative and what you need to do to keep your trails and roads open. Included is a schedule of townhall meeting dates. | | Submit Comments to the Roadless Review Task Force | | Sunday, October 30, 2005 | | Motorized users must submit comments and show up to the meetings in droves or forever loose the opportunity to create the agenda for motorized use in Colorado. If you are burning about a favorite trail then you must attend these hearings and say a few words and send in your written comments. | | Roadless Areas Review Task Force Needs Motorized Support | | Sunday, October 30, 2005 | | The Roadless Areas Review Task Force will help determine the future of roadless areas in Colorado, including what uses, if any, will be allowed in the applicable forest areas. Based upon public comment, the task force will make recommendations to Governor Owens regarding how inventoried roadless areas should be managed. The Governor will then submit a petition to the United States Forest Service on behalf of the State of Colorado. |
Billings Canyon Extreme 4WD Trail
Grand Mesa 100-Mile Agreement
North Fruita Desert Planning Process
| Comment on the North Fruita Desert Resource Management Plan | | Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | | The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released a draft plan that will govern recreational trail use in the north Fruita desert. COHVCO is submitting comments and requesting that concerned motorized users do the same. Comment deadline extended to Friday, November 14, 2003. |
Uncompahgre Travel Plan
| COHVCO Sues Forest Service Over Uncompahgre Travel Plan | | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 | | DENVER, CO. - Today the Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition (COHVCO) filed another lawsuit in federal court in Denver asking the court to force the United States Forest Service to follow the correct procedures in its travel planning. COHVCO’s complaint involves the travel plan for the Uncompahgre National Forest in southwestern Colorado, near Montrose. |
Arapaho Ridge / Radial Mountain
| COHVCO Heads to Court in Arapahoe Ridge / Radial Mountain case | | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 | | COHVCO will head to United States District Court today to present oral arguments in the Arapahoe Ridge / Radial Mountain case. | | Arapaho Ridge Trail Closure and Radial Mountain Singletrack at Issue | | Sunday, December 1, 2002 | | On October 22, 2002, COHVCO attorney D. Andrew Wight filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the U.S. Forest Service. The lawsuit alleges that the Forest Service failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest Management Act in its decisions to close the Arapaho Ridge Trail to motorized use and to add motorized trail mileage to the trail system in an area known as Radial Mountain. | | Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition Files Federal Lawsuit on Routt National Forest | | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | Today the Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition (COHVCO) filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the U.S. Forest Service for failing to follow federal law and procedure in two connected projects in the Routt National Forest in northern Colorado.
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White River National Forest Forest Plan and Travel Management
| White River NF Rethinks Travel Management Plan | | Thursday, November 16, 2006 | Hot off the presses. WR is going back to the drawing board; our comments and maps have led them to rethink an inadequate Draft. They are going to consider the maps submitted by COHVCO, do the Mixed Use Roads Analysis and this one is open to interpretation "incorporate new information regarding
additional managment direction". This supplemental draft will allow for comment. | | COHVCO's White River Travel Management Plan Comments | | Thursday, October 26, 2006 | | COHVCO filed it's comments on the White River National Forest DEIS/TMP today. Click here to read more and download the PDF. | | White River Travel Plan Needs Your Attention! | | Thursday, October 12, 2006 | | Here is your chance to make the difference on what trails and roads stay open, and what is closed on the White River National Forest. | | ACTION ALERT: White River Travel Plan Meetings | | Sunday, August 6, 2006 | | Public meetings on the White River National Forest travel management plan start on August 8 and run through August 23, 2006. All are encouraged to attend these meetings to support OHV and snowmobile recreation. | | White River National Forest Adds Insult to Injury | | Tuesday, October 1, 2002 | | COHVCO, joined by the Colorado 500, with the assistance of the White River Forest Alliance, filed an appeal of the revised forest plan because the plan cuts motorized areas by about 25% for no good reason. |
Molas Pass Snowmobile Ban
| COHVCO and Molas Pass Get Another Day in Court | | Thursday, November 17, 2005 | | I wanted to let all of you know that we just had another 'day in court'. Paul Turcke flew down from Boise to represent COHVCO, the Silverton Snowmobile Association, and the Colorado Snowmobile Association in our case vs. the USFS on the Molas Pass case. | | COHVCO Gets its Day in Court | | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 | | On Friday March 19, 2004, COHVCO’s attorney, Andrew Wight, faced off against the federal government’s attorney and one representing the Colorado Mountain Club and other groups in the Molas Pass case. Wight represented the Silverton Snowmobile Club, the Colorado Snowmobile Association and COHVCO. | | COHVCO Files Lawsuit to Re-Open Molas Pass Area to Snowmobilers | | Tuesday, October 1, 2002 | | Molas Pass is a stretch of U.S. Highway 550, which runs southwest out of Silverton, Colorado and turns south towards Durango. COHVCO seeks to re-open this area to snowmobilers. |
Parks and Yampa Route Designation
| Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition Appeals Decision on Routt National Forest | | Tuesday, December 3, 2002 | | Yesterday the Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition (COHVCO) filed a notice of appeal of a federal district court decision which allowed the U.S. Forest Service to restrict motorized travel on 217,000 acres of the Routt National Forest to designated roads and trails without first taking an inventory and designating open trails. |
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