This came from Backcountry Hunters and Anglers.

Friday night, the President signed an executive order that could fundamentally change public lands as we know them.

Decades of underlying policy allowing agencies to govern motorized vehicle use on federal land? Gone. Agencies have been directed to rescind or rewrite policy that has regulated ORV use on public lands for the past 50 years.

We, the BHA community, already know the implications: Unchecked motorized travel on public lands can harm access for everyone in the long run. It changes wildlife behavior, fragments habitat & trades the quiet for the noise.

Access matters & we fight for it every day. But access & motorization are NOT the same thing.
Not every acre of public land should be managed for maximum motorized access. The ability to reach public lands should not come at the expense of the wild qualities that make those places worth visiting in the first place.

We’re dissecting every detail of this order and continuing to advocate for the backcountry in the halls of Congress. More to come.
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The draft is to not allow any restrictions on motorized access to national forests, you can’t tell a motorcyclist they can’t ride there or stop ATV or UTV access to anywhere.  They want to “open and improve” airstrips in the backcountry, the Big Creek 4 are right there on top of the list.  They want to rewrite the wilderness act to allow chainsaws across the board, which opens the door for mechanized travel and motorized travel in Wilderness.  That chainsaws in Wilderness push was just the foot in the door for eliminating what we know as big W Wilderness.  Trump is piling this on faster than we can fight it.  I am still involved in fighting the chainsaw thing and a lawsuit is being drafted, those folks that are OK with using chainsaws have just opened the door for the full on removal (or updating as IOGA calls it) of the Wilderness Act. Jeff Halligan