Okanogan-Wen NF has pulled back their reg and CLOSED their roads to ATVs while they conduct an NEPA (national environmental policy act) review. They were getting squeezed by enviros that they had not followed NEPA and I think were afraid it would get tied up in court so they caved. The court likely would have ordered it anyway so off they went. Look at all the logging ops that get stopped for less. Who knows how long this will take.
The rest involves local jurisdictions and counties to decide what roads to open. In the case of Okanogan County, the county website has a link on their home page which goes to maps and what roads are open (essentially all roads in the county under 35 MPH). They have even reduced speeds on some roads in order to make them fit the law. Not sure I totally agree with that approach...well anyway, Douglas County and Stevens County have opened many roads too. Bottom line is that if you go to county government websites, on the east side anyway, if they are into opening roads most will have a link that talks about it. (Yeah I live in the this area so I know a lot about it.)
Does that help?
