Management - Use limits & carrying capacities

American Academy for the Advancement of Science. (1974). ORV Use. Science, 18(3), 500-501.

Abstract

Recommendations for the control of ORV use and it's impacts on the environment are given in this non-technical article. Designate a number of large, easily accessible areas for unrestricted use by off-road vehicles. 2) Designate portions of the desert as wilderness or other kinds of areas in which access is permitted to non-motorized travel only; 3)Prohibit off-road vehicular travel except to land-use permittees and lessees in the remaining desert lands; 4) Establish buffer strips approximately 1 mile wide in the open country along major highways; 5) Encourage states in which the desert lands occur to enact legislation requiring state and county units to establish land-use zones designed to control residential and industrial development; 6) Conduct research on the impact of recreational use on vegetation re growth and succession, soil, animals,
and water; and 7) initiate an educational outreach program.

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