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ATV Damage on the Adirondack Forest Preserve Reprinted 2013 Protect the Adirondacks Rutted and Ruined: ATV Damage on the Adirondack Forest Preserve Written by Peter Bauer Photographs and Field Research by John Davis, Bill Kitchen, Peter Bauer, and Todd Thomas Reprinted 2013 Protect the Adirondacks Published by the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks P.O. Box 27, Reprinted7 Ordway 2012 Lane, Protect North the Creek,Adirondacks New York 12853 PhonePO (518) Box 251-4257,769, Lake George, Fax (518) NY 12845 251-5068 518.685.3088 [email protected] www.protectadks.org Email [email protected], www.adirondackresidents.org Originally published in 2003 by the Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks North Creek, NY, (C) ProtectDecember the Adirondacks, 2003 Lake George NY, 2013 (The Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks and Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks merged in 2009 to form Protect the Adirondacks) Used and Abused Wild Forest Areas: Table of Contents Independence River Wild Forest 23 Aldrich Pond Wild Forest 24 Rutted and Ruined: ATV Damage Watson’s East Triangle Wild Forest 25 on the Black River Wild Forest 26 Adirondack Forest Preserve Ferris Lake Wild Forest 27 Wilcox Lake Wild Forest 28 Introduction: Jessup River and Shaker Mountain Wild Forests 29 ATV Advertising Promotes Abuse of Natural ATV Damage is Widespread Across Resources and Wild Area 30 the Adirondack Forest Preserve 3 List of Forest Preserve Roads Opened to ATVs 32 Adirondack Park Agency and Department Conclusion and Recommendations: of Environmental Conservation have done little to stop ATV abuse 4 New York State Agencies Should Uphold Existing Laws to Regulate ATV Use 33 Impacts: Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks: ATV Use Damages Road Surfaces and Board of Directors and Staff Back Cover Corridors, Soils, and Wetlands 7 Ever Widening Trails and Roads 9 Cover pictures: Row 1/Top row (left to right) Chubb Pond Road, Black River Wild Forest Blazing Illegal New Trails through the Area (damage by inholders and trespassers); Herkimer Landing Road, Black River Wild Forest Preserve 11 Forest (damage done by legal use); Mud Creek Road, Aldrich Pond Wild Forest Area (closed to ATVs in 2002 due to damage, but still used). ATVs Routinely Trespass around Gates and Barriers 15 Row 2: Silvermine Trail, Independence River Wild Forest (illegal ATV use); Chubb Pond Trail, Black River Wild Forest (see above); Little Otter Creek Road, Independence River Driving through Streams for the Fun of It 19 Wild Forest (damage done by legal use). Trespassing onto Hiking and Snowmobile Trails, Row Three: Prentice Road, Watson’s East Triangle Wild Forest Area (damage by illegal and Unathorized Roads 21 use); Glasgow Pond Road, Ferris Lake Wild Forest (damage by illegal use); Snowmobile Vandalism of Forest Preserve Facilities to Gain Trail C8, Independence River Wild Forest (damage by illegal use). Access for ATV Use 22 Bottom: Boundary Road/Cage Lake Road, Five Ponds Wilderness Area and Aldrich Pond Wild Forest (damage done by legal use); South Lake Trail, Black River Wild Forest (dam- age done by legal use); Oxbow Lake Trail, Jessup River Wild Forest (damge by illegal use); Tyler Road, Aldrich Pond Wild Forest (damage by legal use). Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks - 2 Introduction ATV damage is widespread across the Adirondack Forest Preserve This report looks at the growing threat of All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) use on the Forest Preserve. The Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks (RCPA) sees ATV use as perhaps the greatest threat to the ecological integrity and public enjoyment of the Adirondack Forest Preserve in the last forty years. Over the past sev- eral years the RCPA has received more comments from members and the public about ATV damage to the Forest Preserve than any other issue. Starting in the summer of 2001, RCPA staff and volunteers Top: surveying dam- began an inventory of many of the Wild Forest Areas in the Adirondack age from ATVs on Forest Preserve to catalogue damage caused by ATVs. In early 2003, the Prentice Road in the RCPA obtained, through a Freedom of Information Act request to the Watson’s the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) (which took the EastTriangle Wild DEC 17 months to answer), a list of 52 “roads” Forest Area. that the DEC had “opened” to ATVs across the Right: ATVers ready Adirondack Forest Preserve. The RCPA looked to go in the at the areas where these 52 roads are located Independence River in the summer of 2003 and found a total of 63 Wild Forest Area. roads “signed open” for ATV use (the DEC uses the sign on the right to mark roads open to cannot travel. Because ATVs can go where other motor vehicles cannot ATVs). RCPA’s findings this summer, and over their impacts are very different. RCPA fieldwork found nine main nega- the past three years, are not pretty. Many of tive impacts from ATV use in the Forest Preserve: the roads “opened” to ATV use by the DEC The DEC has posted have suffered significant natural resource 1. ATV use destroys road and trail surfaces and Forest Preserve this sign on all roads damage. We also found a tremendous amount facilities, such as bridges, and causes soil and wetlands damage they have opened for of trespassing on roads not “opened” to ATVs, in ways that other motor vehicles do not; see pages 7-8. ATV use in the Forest and on horse, hiking, and snowmobile trails Preserve. throughout the Forest Preserve. 2. ATV use creates deep ruts and mud pits on roads and trails that become impassable. It seems that ATVs are often ridden for The RCPA has concluded that ATV use is very different from the backwoods riding experience where one can make the mud that of other motor vehicles. Simply put: ATVs can go, and do go, fly and tear up an area. This damage makes a road difficult to where other motor vehicles, such as a Ford Taurus or Chevy Suburban, travel for other users. See pages 7-8. Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks - 3 3. Roads and trails are widened by other ATV users Forest areas in the Adirondack Forest Preserve in this to avoid the damaged, impassable areas, which report that have been hard hit by ATV use, both author- causes further damage to the corridor’s natural ized by the DEC and illegal. See page 23 for pictures resources and wild character. See pages 9-10. from the Independence River Wild Forest area; page 24 for the Aldrich Pond Wild Forest Area; page 25 for the 4. Wild forest character and the Forest Preserve Watson’s East Triangle Wild Forest Area; page 26 for experience are damaged by ATV use. Non-motor the Black River Wild Forest Area; page 27 for the Ferris vehicle users that use the roads and trails Lake Wild Forest Area; page 28 for the Wilcox Lake damaged by ATVs find their Forest Preserve Wild Forest Area; and, page 29 for the Jessup River and experience undermined. See pictures on pages 7- Shaker Mountain Wild Forest Areas. 29. This damage is significant and the State of New 5. ATVs regularly leave designated roads to illegally York is facing a stiff bill to remediate and rehabilitate blaze new trails through the Forest Preserve. these roads and trails that have suffered from damage See pages 11-14. due to ATV use. Even more troubling is that the agen- cies responsible for protecting the natural resources of 6. ATVs regularly trespass around gates and boul- the Adirondack Forest Preserve and managing public use ders that are erected to control motor vehicle have deliberately tunred a blind eye towards the impacts traffic. See pages 15-18. and continue to allow ATVs damage to occur without any environmental review or assessments of the impacts. 7. ATVs regularly drive through streams, creeks and wetlands for sport rather than use bridges that Adirondack Park Agency and Department provide motor vehicles with access over a stream, of Environmental Conservation have creek or wetland. See pages 19-20. done little to stop ATV abuse 8. ATVs regularly trespass on snowmobile trails, Over the past decade there has been a remarkable designated roads that prohibit ATV use, and foot and highly effective partnership between the DEC and paths that intersect with roads that have been Adirondack Park Agency (APA) to enable and support the designated for ATV use. See pages 21. expansion of ATV use of the Forest Preserve through their combined outright refusal to act seriously on this 9. ATV use has led to vandalism of Forest Preserve issue. The DEC has refused, despite numerous calls from facilities, such as gates that control access. See the public, to release a comprehensive policy for manage- page 22. ment of public ATV use in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. The DEC has been telling the RCPA and others These impacts are particular to ATVs and have that this policy will be released for over two years. For been perpetrated across the Adirondack Forest its part, the APA has forsaken its status as an independ- Preserve, though they are most pronounced in the west- ent agency that makes management and planning decisions ern and southern Adirondacks. Other motor vehicles for the Forest Preserve. In 2002, the RCPA submitted a simply cannot drive off roads and damage wild areas like Request for a Declaratory Ruling to the APA seeking an ATV can. RCPA includes pictures from eight Wild interpretations of the Adirondack Park State Land Residents’ Committee to Protect the Adirondacks - 4 Master Plan (APSLMP) regarding ATV use in the Forest Preserve. The DEC Region 5, which includes the eastern 2/3 of the Adirondack Park, APA refused to make a ruling on this request, thus refusing to confront does not contain any roads “open” for ATVs, though in many places, such the issue of ATV damage to the Adirondack Forest Preserve.
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