Daniel Eagan
Active member
Bill will allow mountain bikes and other vehicles on National Wilderness Preservation System lands:
"Sen. Lee’s bill is premised on the false claim that the Wilderness Act never banned bikes and that supposedly, the U.S. Forest Service changed its regulations in 1984 to ban bikes. But bicycles, an obvious kind of mechanized equipment, have always been prohibited in wilderness by the plain language of the law. (“There shall be … no other form of mechanical transport.”) The Forest Service merely clarified its regulations on this point in 1984 as mountain bikes gained popularity."
https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/w...ntain-bikers-push-to-ride-through-wilderness/
"Sen. Lee’s bill is premised on the false claim that the Wilderness Act never banned bikes and that supposedly, the U.S. Forest Service changed its regulations in 1984 to ban bikes. But bicycles, an obvious kind of mechanized equipment, have always been prohibited in wilderness by the plain language of the law. (“There shall be … no other form of mechanical transport.”) The Forest Service merely clarified its regulations on this point in 1984 as mountain bikes gained popularity."
https://www.vaildaily.com/opinion/w...ntain-bikers-push-to-ride-through-wilderness/
