[addicted56]

The BLM Beruea of Land Managment. Falls under the Nataional System of Public Lands. I don't know a lot about them except they manange nearly everything in the Western United States. Our ranch back home backs right up to the Elliot Forrest which I beleive they partially manage in partnership with the Oregon deparment of Forrestry. It is close to 100K acres and I don't think I've run into but a couple of officials and that was during hunting season. Scarriest thing I've ever run into there is a Bear and a couple of times some cows that got out. We ride dirtbikes for as far as our tanks will take us. They don't have a lot of oversight and personnel and they have millions of acres of land of which is free reign for the most part.

We also have unlimited beach access with 70 miles of mostly unrestricted dunes starting just down the street. You don't have to stop until you hit the next harbor. If you like rock crawling just head out over the cascades...dry as a popcorn fart and extremely volcanic.

I know the BLM seems to work for the people and it usually appears to be for pubilic use. You hear about enviromental impacts from time to time but it is just a few acres at a time....just a dent in the Millions that are available. But we do have about a 10:1 ratio of enviromental wacko's out there. Good thing is most of them are so high on weed they can never get anything constructive done.