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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Tom Perkins

Critics say Trump’s opening of public lands to off-road vehicles is ‘reckless and nonsensical’

Landscape view of rolling green fields
The Bighorn national forest in Montana on 9 July 2018. Photograph: Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles to drive through tens of millions of acres of public lands and national parks, which environmental groups warn threatens endangered species and the environment.

The plan’s opponents say the impacts will be wide-ranging and that the vehicles will likely destroy sensitive habitats, harm waterways, drive large predators like grizzly bears into contact with humans, and otherwise damage pristine public lands and parks.

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