Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE. (opens in new tab)

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE. Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles. Anywhere they want. On your public lands. Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon. A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go. In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some m...