saw this on the nccrawler board
"Hello,
I was at Ruby Tuesdays today and saw three men wearing Croatan National Forest shirts. I asked them questions about allowing Jeeps in The National Forest and they said that it is not going to happen. They did just open (well, April is the opening date) a new ATV OHV park there. They cleaned up the trails and made it pretty nice they said. They are still working on prices, wheather it will be a pass or a money drop box. But they are sure there will not be any place for a Jeep to go for at least 5 years. That is how long the deal is lasting this time. So if any of you are still here in 5 years (I will be back in Texas on my ranch in Feb '07) you may still be able to get OHV trails there for Jeeps. The reason they are not going to allow it right now is because of the lack of money to maintain it properly. There is one thing that can out of it. They said they still dont have enough to even keep up with the trails for the ATVs now.
After talking with them for a while they asked about my Jeep and things like that. I was able to talked them into letting my Jeep in to "help keep up with the maintanice."
They have to ad me on as a voluteer but they said it would not be a problem. I told them there were a lot of groups that would do exactly what I proposed. They only countered by saying the soil would not last long with multiple vehicles on it. That was the other reason why they are not allowing large vehicles. They gave me a lot of information about what the future plans are for the Nationaly Forest. Dont expect URE to be open for very much longer. I told them that as of now everyone has to go all the way to URE. They replied by saying take advantage while you can. Upon questioning they explaned that someone, somewhere (in D.C.) does not feel like using our National Forest for OHV is a good. He said not to quote him but I will. He said, "URE will most likely not be an OHV for full size Jeep in the very near future." He said that ATV will most likely be the only vehicles allowed. He said they just dont do so much damage to the soil. I told him that the trails in URE are made for Jeeps and not ATVs and he just said they will address it when they get to that park. I kind of looked at him funny and said something to the extent of, are you the one that makes the decision. They guys next to him said, "pretty much."
So after talking to him a little more I found out this guys is actually one of the rangers that goes around an make desicions about the parks in N.C. Cool but he was not very 4x4 friendly. He looks like the kind of guy that drives a prius!!!!
Anyway, he does not have the final decision though. He send everything up the chain."
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"Hello,
I was at Ruby Tuesdays today and saw three men wearing Croatan National Forest shirts. I asked them questions about allowing Jeeps in The National Forest and they said that it is not going to happen. They did just open (well, April is the opening date) a new ATV OHV park there. They cleaned up the trails and made it pretty nice they said. They are still working on prices, wheather it will be a pass or a money drop box. But they are sure there will not be any place for a Jeep to go for at least 5 years. That is how long the deal is lasting this time. So if any of you are still here in 5 years (I will be back in Texas on my ranch in Feb '07) you may still be able to get OHV trails there for Jeeps. The reason they are not going to allow it right now is because of the lack of money to maintain it properly. There is one thing that can out of it. They said they still dont have enough to even keep up with the trails for the ATVs now.
After talking with them for a while they asked about my Jeep and things like that. I was able to talked them into letting my Jeep in to "help keep up with the maintanice."
They have to ad me on as a voluteer but they said it would not be a problem. I told them there were a lot of groups that would do exactly what I proposed. They only countered by saying the soil would not last long with multiple vehicles on it. That was the other reason why they are not allowing large vehicles. They gave me a lot of information about what the future plans are for the Nationaly Forest. Dont expect URE to be open for very much longer. I told them that as of now everyone has to go all the way to URE. They replied by saying take advantage while you can. Upon questioning they explaned that someone, somewhere (in D.C.) does not feel like using our National Forest for OHV is a good. He said not to quote him but I will. He said, "URE will most likely not be an OHV for full size Jeep in the very near future." He said that ATV will most likely be the only vehicles allowed. He said they just dont do so much damage to the soil. I told him that the trails in URE are made for Jeeps and not ATVs and he just said they will address it when they get to that park. I kind of looked at him funny and said something to the extent of, are you the one that makes the decision. They guys next to him said, "pretty much."
So after talking to him a little more I found out this guys is actually one of the rangers that goes around an make desicions about the parks in N.C. Cool but he was not very 4x4 friendly. He looks like the kind of guy that drives a prius!!!!
Anyway, he does not have the final decision though. He send everything up the chain."
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, I just keep waiting for them to shutdown Tellico since it is in the Natl forest system too.
