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Your Chance To Provide Positive Comments About Motorized Recreation By Americans forResponsible Recreation Access Earlierthis yearPresident Obama held a conference on America’s Great Outdoors and established the America’s Great Outdoors Initiative to be led by the Secretaries of Interior and Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Chairof the Council of Environmental Quality. The initiative is tasked with reconnecting Americans, especially children, to the outdoors and they have asked forpublic input and ideas. It is vitally important that the Administration hearfrom you about how you recreate on and enjoy public lands. We can be sure that they are hearing from those who would support limiting orending access formotorized recreation, but we have an opportunity to tell ourside of the story as well. So visit America's Great Outdoors, sign-up, and weigh in. Now is the time to make it clearthat OHVrecreation is a family-oriented activity that allows forfamilies to spend quality time outdoors. Too often OHVrecreation is defined by the renegade few who behave irresponsibly. Please take this opportunity to make it clearthat millions of Americans responsibly enjoy motorized recreation on public lands. Talking Points: OHVuse is a legitimate, sustainable use of appropriate public lands, particularly on National Forests and Bureau of Land Management Units. * Motorized recreation is a healthy family activity and provides a great opportunity forfamilies to “get away from it all,” and to experience the great outdoors. * OHVers, like otherrecreationists, seek opportunities to not only enjoy the riding experience, but also opportunities to learn more about cultural and historical context, take in scenic views, observe wildlife, camp, hunt, fish and participate in many otheractivities. * The overwhelming majority of OHVers are conservationists, who seek to preserve the same outdoorexperiences they enjoy forchildren and grandchildren. OHVers are volunteers. OHVclubs and organizations groom and maintain trails, trailheads and otherfacilities as well as adopt trails and provide the tools and experience needed for constructing and maintaining all sorts of recreational trails; not just OHVopportunities. * ATVand off-highway motorcycle riding encourage and promote physical fitness. * OHVs provide the opportunity forAmericans of all ages and physical capabilities to enjoy the outdoors. So please take a few minutes to visit America's Great Outdoors and have yourvoiceheard. Americans forResponsible Recreation Access 1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20005