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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,489 posts) Thu Jul 3, 2025, 12:56 PM Jul 3

A battle is raging over ATVs on public lands

HANKSVILLE, Utah - Brett Stewart was in the lead, bouncing behind the wheel of a Can-Am Maverick X3 off-road vehicle that he likened to a “Ferrari on dirt.”

Then came Jean Robert Babilis, a 70-year-old with a handgun in the console, pushing a 114-horsepower Polaris side-by-side through the red rock canyonlands of southern Utah - spraying sand in defiance of the environmentalists who’ve fought a years-long battle to keep his kind away.

HANKSVILLE, Utah - Brett Stewart was in the lead, bouncing behind the wheel of a Can-Am Maverick X3 off-road vehicle that he likened to a “Ferrari on dirt.”

Then came Jean Robert Babilis, a 70-year-old with a handgun in the console, pushing a 114-horsepower Polaris side-by-side through the red rock canyonlands of southern Utah - spraying sand in defiance of the environmentalists who’ve fought a years-long battle to keep his kind away.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/battle-raging-over-atvs-public-134919335.html

Yeehaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let's rip the shit out of public lands.

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A battle is raging over ATVs on public lands (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 3 OP

Road lice. 2naSalit Jul 3 #1

Our trails are being destroyed by offroad motorbikes too--and with zero tax dollar resources to support hlthe2b Jul 3 #2

Glad I got the Utah parks in. Won't be spending any more $$$ there. we can do it Jul 3 #3

2naSalit

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1. Road lice.

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Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:02 PM

Jul 3

hlthe2b

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2. Our trails are being destroyed by offroad motorbikes too--and with zero tax dollar resources to support

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Thu Jul 3, 2025, 01:34 PM

Jul 3

NPS and the legion of volunteers that have always shown up to help build and preserve them, we are losing a lot that we may not get back.

Of course, the "answer" will not be to restrict ATVs or other damaging impacts, but to privatize the whole lot of our national treasures. We may have dodged the bullet this session, but Trump and his nasty, greedy ilk will keep trying.

we can do it

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3. Glad I got the Utah parks in. Won't be spending any more $$$ there.

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Thu Jul 3, 2025, 02:46 PM

Jul 3

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