Download or read book Study of Off highway Vehicle Trails written by Minnesota. Department of Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designing Sustainable Off Highway Vehicle Trails written by Agriculture Department and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property management of off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails is one of the most important tasks for trail managers today. Title 36 of the Code of Federal Regulation Part 212.1, the Forest Service defines an OHV as any motor vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, sand, snow, ice, or marsh, swamp, or other natural terrain. In this report, off-highway vehicles, OVH, include everything from dirt bikes to swamp buggies, off-road vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, utility-terrain vehicles, four-wheel drive vehicles, such as pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, and tracked vehicles. This illustrated report takes into consideration trail guidelines, fundamentals, assessments, management objectives, and layouts to reinforce the management framework presented to help OHV managers develop sustainable trails and protect the environment of surrounding trails. This framework provides a step-by-step approach to OHV trail management, incorporating sustainable design and management concepts with traditional trail management expertise and modern technological tools. Forest service and land management personnel, including farmers and ranchers that may utilize and manage multiple off-highway vehicles may be interested in this report. Other products related to this title that may be of interest include the following: Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36, Parks, Forests, and Public Property, Pt. 200-299, Revised as of July 1, 2015 can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/869-082-00142-9
Download or read book Governor s Off highway Vehicle OHV Study written by Tennessee. Department of Environment and Conservation and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Degraded Off highway Vehicle Trails in Wet Unstable and Sensitive Environments written by Kevin G. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental impacts associated with the degradation of off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails have become a serious concern in many regions. Where OHV trails indiscriminately cross alpine areas, wetlands, steep slopes, and other areas with sensitive soil conditions, trails can become rutted, mucky, and eroded. Such areas are referred to as degraded trail segments. Degraded trails develop when trail use exceeds the trail's natural carrying capacity. This document provides land managers and trail users with an introduction to OHV trail degradation and outlines a framework for management responses.
Download or read book The Off road Vehicle written by California. Trails and Off-Road Vehicle Section and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off highway Vehicle Trail and Road Grading Equipment written by Brian Vachowski and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feasibility of a Recreation Site for Off highway Vehicles OHVs in the Twin Cities Region of Minnesota written by John P. Genereux and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Effects of Off road Vehicles written by Norma Jean Lodico and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the literature separated into the form categories of scientific papers, reports, meetings and conferences, periodical articles, and state publications.
Download or read book ORRV Off Road Recreation Vehicles written by United States. Task Force on Off-Road Recreation Vehicles and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influences on Off highway Vehicle OHV Recreation Use Patterns Within a Complex Trail System in Southwest Idaho written by Eric Charles Frey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Off-highway vehicle (OHV) recreation on public lands provides participants with the opportunity to experience positive connections with nature; however, like all outdoor recreation activity, OHV use can have impacts on the environment. In order to maintain the health of the landscape and wildlife while also providing recreational opportunities, managers must make decisions based on sound biological and social science data. We hope this research provides knowledge that may aid in the implementation of sound management strategies that are successful in fulfilling these goals. In the first chapter, in order to gain knowledge on OHV recreationists and their distributions across a landscape, we used a combination of a pre-trip written survey and visitor-employed GPS survey to determine characteristics that influence their travel within a complex trail system on federally managed land in southwest Idaho. The pre-trip written survey supplied us with characteristics of the recreationists that were put into one of four categories, group constraints, site experience, site knowledge, or motivations. The GPS survey provided spatial and temporal data in order to describe the participant's distributions. Using principal components analysis, we found that distributions can be summarized by two distinct dimensions. The most informative dimension was a measure of overall extensiveness of the trip while the second dimension can be described as the dichotomy between 'purpose driven' and 'aimless' travel. Using a theoretical information approach, overall extensiveness was influenced by group constraints, site knowledge, and motivations while the second dimension ('purpose driven' or 'aimless' travel) was influenced by group constraints and site experience. We found that all four variable categories influenced at least one of the distribution dimensions, supporting our conceptual model. These findings can aid land managers in meeting management objectives by giving them the necessary information to identify uneven use patterns, better direct educational and informational programs, and to allow indirect management strategies to be affectively used. In the second chapter, we concentrated on how the landscape may influence OHV use patterns and behavior, specifically stopping behavior. All outdoor recreation has an impact on the environment and on wildlife; however, heterogeneous or transitional behaviors such as stopping often increases disturbance to wildlife. It has been observed that OHV recreationists, when riding in golden eagle habitat in southwest Idaho, disturb eagles more often when they stop their vehicle(s) as opposed to continuing to ride until they are outside of the sensitive area. Using a visitor-employed GPS survey and a presence-only modeling method, our objective was to identify where OHV recreationists stopped and to describe what natural and infrastructure landscape characteristics are more suitable for this transitional human behavior to occur. We then wanted to determine if there was a significant difference in stopping suitability between areas of varying habitat utilization by the local golden eagle population. We successfully identified stopping locations and developed two distinct models. One model described the suitability for all stopping events five seconds or greater while the second model described the suitability where an accumulation of five minutes of stopping occurs. We determined what landscape characteristics contributed to stopping suitability across the study site for both models. In the 'All' model, we found that the stopping suitability index was greater in unoccupied territories when compared to occupied territories. In the 'Five Minute' model, we determined that stopping suitability was lower in non-territory areas than in both unoccupied and occupied golden eagle territories. When examining used and available habitats based on perch locations away from nest sites, we found no significant difference. This research exhibits how transitional human behaviors can be identified and modeled across a landscape as well as how the results can be used to aid in land management strategies in order to accomplish management objectives.."--Boise State University ScholarWorks.
Download or read book Bridger Teton National Forest N F Off highway Vehicle Route Designation Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Draft written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ATV Trails Guide Arizona Phoenix Region written by Charles A. Wells and published by Funtreks Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy, Moderate, Difficult ATV Riding Adventures in Arizona's Phoenix Region
Download or read book Park Guidelines for Off highway Vehicles written by George E. Fogg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of Erosion Rates on User created Off road Vehicle Trails in Southeastern Ohio written by Richard R Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The need for understanding the impacts of off-road vehicle (ORV) usage on trail systems is widely accepted, with few studies being conducted in humid climates and even fewer examining the impacts of unauthorized user-created ORV routes. This research examines cross-trail profile measurements along authorized ORV trails and unauthorized ORV routes in southeastern Ohio over a six-month period in order to calculate erosion rates and understand how each trail type behaves throughout the riding season. Measurements from the two trail types are compared to one another in varying combinations and between data collection periods. Spatial comparisons of soil compaction and soil texture are also analyzed. Results from statistical analyses showed that there is no significant difference in erosion rates between authorized and unauthorized trail segments despite apparent differences in eroded sediments between the two trail types. The highest measured erosion rates on authorized and unauthorized segments totaled 3.65 m3/yr and 15.95 m3/yr, respectively. Few sites were found to have significant geomorphic change along the trail surface during the six-month study period. Soil compaction values were found to be greater on the trail surface compared to the trail-adjacent forest in both trail types. Soil compaction of the trail surface was not found to be statistically different between the two trail types, nor were values from the trail-adjacent forest different between the trail types. The results of this study demonstrate the need for effective management efforts that focus management efforts not only on authorized ORV trails, but also the unauthorized routes that are associated in ORV trail systems.
Download or read book State funded Trails for Motorized Recreation written by John W. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Off road Highway Vehicles written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
