I've said it before and I'll say it again, and again, and again, and again, but when those who enjoy the outdoors attempt to ban another sect of the outdoors-enjoying public, we all lose. It's just a fact.
The latest in our outdoors infighting comes from the great state of Pennsylvania where the Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation, an environmentalist group within the state, has sued the state, the state's governor Josh Shapiro, and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources over the latter organization creating new ATV trails with the Northcentral Regional ATV Trail Connector Pilot (NRAT for short).
The issue is that ATVs are allowed in any of the state's public forests, and the creation of these trails, aimed at providing riders with over 374 miles of new riding, is "unconstitutional" under the state's constitution. And in reading this lawsuit, as well as the group's statements about the lawsuit, the same dull headache I get whenever groups who enjoy public lands but hate that others use it differently from how they do has returned...
Let's get into this.
