Table of Contents

Introduction

A Process for Selecting ORV Management Practices

Strategies and Tactics for Managing ORV Use
        No Action / Status Quo
        Modify Visitor Use Practices
                Educate Visitors to Adopt Low Impact Practices
                Regulate Visitor Use Practices
        Modify Location of ORV Use
                Encourage Dispersal of Traffic in Remote Areas
                Encourage Concentration of Traffic in Popular Areas
                Reduce Use in Problem Areas
                Reduce or Prohibit Traffic in Sensitive Areas
        Modify the Resource
                Maintain Marked Routes
                Rehabilitate ORV Routes
        Modify ORVs
                Modify ORVs to Reduce Impacts
                Restrict Particularly Damaging Types of ORVs
        Modify Timing and Amount of ORV Use
                Modify Timing of ORV Use
                Reduce ORV Use in General

Strategy 1. Educate Visitors to Adopt Low Impact Practices
        Tactic 1.1 Promote Selection and Use of Resistant Routes
        Tactic 1.2 Promote Adoption of Low Impact ORV Use Practices
        Tactic 1.3 Promote Actions that Reduce Visitor Conflict
        Tactic 1.4 Require Attendance at an ORV Low Impact Workshop

Strategy 2. Regulate Visitor Use Practices
        Tactic 2.1 Prohibit Particularly Damaging Practices
        Tactic 2.2 Increase Enforcement Efforts
        Tactic 2.3 Prohibit Practices that Cause Visitor Conflict

Strategy 3. Encourage Dispersed Use in Remote Areas
        Tactic 3.1 Encourage Visitors to Avoid Existing Routes in Remote Areas

Strategy 4. Encourage Concentration of Traffic in Popular Areas
        Tactic 4.1 Encourage Visitors to Use Existing Routes
        Tactic 4.2 Require Visitors to Use Existing Routes
        Tactic 4.3 Concentrate Use by Designating Access Points
        Tactic 4.4 Select and Mark Resistant Routes
        Tactic 4.5 Require Use of Designated Routes in Selected Areas
        Tactic 4.6 Require Use of Designated Routes in Selected Management Units

Strategy 5. Reduce Use in Problem Areas
        Tactic 5.1 Discourage Use in Problem Areas
        Tactic 5.2 Make Access to Problem Areas More Difficult
        Tactic 5.3 Establish Quotas for Use in Problem Areas

Strategy 6. Reduce Use in Sensitive Areas
        Tactic 6.1 Discourage Traffic in Sensitive Areas
        Tactic 6.2 Establish Quotas for Traffic in Sensitive Areas
        Tactic 6.3 Prohibit Traffic in Sensitive Areas

Strategy 7. Maintain Marked Routes
        Tactic 7.1 Add Fill Material in Problem Areas
        Tactic 7.2 Use Geosynthetics in Problem Areas
        Tactic 7.3 Construct At-Grade Routes
        Tactic 7.4 Designate or Maintain Above-Grade Roads

Strategy 8. Rehabilitate Closed ORV Routes
        Tactic 8.1 Restore Substrates
        Tactic 8.2 Restore Vegetation

Strategy 9. Modify ORVs to Reduce Impacts
        Tactic 9.1 Specify ORV Weights, PSI/Displacement, Clearance, Engine Size, or Tires
        Tactic 9.2 Relate ORV Access to ORV Specifications
        Tactic 9.3 Establish Noise Specifications by ORV Type

Strategy 10. Restrict Particularly Damaging Types of ORVs
        Tactic 10.1 Discourage Use of Particularly Damaging ORV Types
        Tactic 10.2 Prohibit Use of Particularly Damaging Types of ORVs
        Tactic 10.3 Restrict Use of Particular ORV Types in Sensitive or Problem Areas

Strategy 11. Modify Timing of ORV Use
        Tactic 11.1 Discourage Use During Times of Resource Susceptibility
        Tactic 11.2 Prohibit Use During Times of Resource Susceptibility
        Tactic 11.3 Regulate Timing of Use to Reduce Crowding and Conflict

Strategy 12. Reduce ORV Use in General
        Tactic 12.1 Increase ORV Use Fees
        Tactic 12.2 Reduce Number of ORV Permits
        Tactic 12.3 Make Access More Difficult
        Tactic 12.4 Limit Length of Stay
        Tactic 12.5 Require Certain Skills
        Tactic 12.6 Regulate Area of Use to Reduce Conflicts

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