Fully agree, as an OHV advocate we often get egg in the face, sometimes the trick is gracefully wearing egg! Recreation is not a right, it's a privilege, not political, it's about budget, activation, responsibility, etc. The agencies, for sure Forest, have little, if any budget for recreation, so to have quality recreation, we have to make it.
Attending meetings, events, with people representing just about every type of public lands recreation imaginable, they all have issues, often internal. A priority is to do what is possible to reduce, improve, eliminate the problems. The biggest issue we all face is the shooting problem and have never seen any representation at any of these events, as a gun owner I find this highly embarrassing. It's not about gun hate, most outdoor users, no matter what category they put themselves in, are gun owners.
The thing is, the shooting community is huge here, lots of manufactures, etc, could likely buy the rest of the communities out of pocket change. But don't care about the destruction of our public lands by members of their community. If they are too good to pickup trash, could at least fund the efforts that do it on their behalf. So if you are a big problem and don't care enough to do anything about it, do you deserve the privilege?
Tons of time and effort has been wasted attempting to engage them, with almost zero result. It's a tough decision, many of us have enjoyed shooting on public lands, but the juice is no longer worth the squeeze. At this point, all of the local communities that we work with, are done with the shooting deal, it needs to go, and are advocating for that goal.