"Prior to the lawsuit, the Forest Service said it could not commit any additional funding or personnel for monitoring, enforcement, or restoration of damaged areas if riders travel off-road. “We’re concerned about agency capacity to deal with illegal and harmful off-road riding. We need law enforcement’s presence out on the land, but the Forest Service is already stretched thin,” said ALPS president Karl Forsgaard."
The very first meeting I went to some 10 years ago, the above "excuse" was given!!
Don't forget, the USFS employee's Union is stacked with eco-freaks and politicians love getting paid for their vote!
The USFS wouldn't be "stretched" thin if they would FIRE most of upper management(plus get back to logging)! Its called "Redundancy" Portland would rather hire 10 paper pushers over ONE hard working, physical labor person out where NEEDED!
