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Help Save California's OHV Program | Phase 2

Continued help is needed to save the OHV program!

Press Release, Blue Ribbon Coalition

March 23, 2017

Help save the California OHV program by continuing your support and help into Phase 2.ShareTrails.org

You sent in your opposition as part of Phase 1 and your continued help is needed to save California's OHV Program. Phase 2 is underway and this will continue to fight SB 249 which was introduced by anti-access groups in order to go against the OHV program. For Phase 2 OHV stakeholders are asked to fax in a letter as soon as possible (by March 24) in support of AB 1077 to the following Assembly committee leads:

The Honorable Eduardo Garcia, Chair
Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee
Legislative Office Building
1020 N Street, Room 160
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-319-2156

The Honorable James Gallagher, Vice Chair
Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee
Legislative Office Building
1020 N Street, Room 160
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: 916-319-2103

Between now and Friday (March 24), please write your own letter on your personal, club, or business logo and fax it in as soon as possible. If you would like to see a copy of your letter hand-delivered to the committee before the April 4 hearing, please send it via email to brdon@sharetrails.org.

Your letter does not have to be long, but be respectful and concise (no more than one page). Explain what the OHV program means to you. You will be asking the Committee Chairman and Committee Members to Support AB 1077 (O'Donnell).

Check out the link to the March 22, 2017 BRC AB 1077 Support Letter HERE.

Some of the issues to consider include the OHV program's economic impact to on rural areas. This national "Gold Standard" of OHV management has an annual $20B economic impact, protects natural and cultural resources, serves approximately 6 million OHV recreationists, and partners with county sheriffs/resource conservation districts/conservation groups. Since 80% of OHV recreation occurs on federal lands, it also partners with the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, etc.