Forest Service Finalizes New Off-Road Vehicle Rules
PINEVILLE ?The Kisatchie National Forest has finalized the decision to restrict motorized travel to designated routes.
This decision eliminates cross-country travel by ATVs (four-wheelers, motorcycles, trucks, etc.). The decision finalizes a process that began several years ago, said Gretta Boley, Forest Supervisor of Kisatchie National Forest. We have done our best to provide the needs of forest users while protecting our soil, water and vegetation resources.
The decision has designated hundreds of miles of roads for motor vehicle travel and over 250 miles of trails for four-wheelers and motorcycle travel. The decision eliminates cross-country travel.
Anyone leaving a designated road or trail and traveling cross-country by motor vehicle will be in violation of national forest regulations. The decision will not be enforced until motorized vehicle use maps (MVUM) are available. These regulations will not affect the 2007-2008 hunting season. This decision will eliminate tremendous damage to soil, water and vegetation resources while at the same time providing access to Kisatchie National Forest , said Boley.
The decision will also eliminate nighttime ATV riding except for 1 hour before and after sunset. Maps and regulations will be available in the spring of 2008 at all Forest Service offices. For more information on the Travel Management Decision and for appeal procedures please contact Jackie Duncan by email: jduncan@fs.fed.us or Cindy Dancak by email: cdancak@fs.fed.us or call 318-473-7160.
The purpose of the decision is to implement the National Travel Management Rule, prohibiting cross-country motorized travel forestwide and designating motorized routes. These actions were necessary to address unacceptable resource damage because of increased recreational riding with increasingly more-powerful vehicles. The Forest has also taken this opportunity to address the needed changes to road designations identified in the Travel Analysis. GO HERE for a brief overview of the decision actions. GO HERE for the complete Decision Notice. GO HERE for maps of the Decision changes
Camp Livingston is not as fun as it use to be. You can shoot out there any more. You cant go and explore the place on your atv with out getting chased by a forest ranger. And the place stays closed more that it is open. So im pretty much done with the place.
View CommentThe rules are not just for the camp they are for all of the forest. Anyway no one wants you shooting while they are rideing on a trail.
View CommentI learned how to drive out there in Camp Livingston, I killed my first squirrel out there 20 years ago, I have been going there ever since just to get away, whether it be to ride four wheelers or just to get away. I agree that it is not fun anymore, I was hoping that my boy could do all those things that I did when I was young but I think that it is just like everything else. If its fun, its gonna have restrictions or be closed. You would really think that yall would not put all these restrictions out there. When I was a teenager we didnt drive across the river to Alexandria to get in trouble. We stayed in the “camp” thats where everybody was. Guess Ill pay $5000 and go get on a hunting club just so that I can go shoot my guns, ride my 4 wheeler at nite or anything else that is fun.
View CommentNote that this is a private website neither I or anyone else on here has anything to do with the rules of the camp I only posted them here for everyone to see.
However you can still hunt in the forest in Winn and Grant parish. The camp is only a small part of the FS land here. Lots of places to hunt for free.
I don’t like the new ATV rules either but only thing I can think of is to get them to make some legal trails in Winn and Grant. The only objection they had to that was they had no money to do it. They might allow a club to build some more trails.
View CommentI am heartbroken, no more riding 4 wheelers or my jeep out there. Guess I will have to start going other places with my family. We sure did enjoy it out there for the last few years. Good memories and good fun. Why cant they just leave well enough alone. Sure we could still go ride there but we enjoy the exploring part of it not just follow the designated route. Thats boring, but as all things in this world we are forced to conform and accept the decisions made by a few that affect many. Its summertime now and my son sure loved to go ride out there with me and get muddy and just have a good time. I’m not going to go have a good time and have to run from the rangers and show a bad example to my son just because we want to have a good time. So enjoy the trails, You can find me somewhere else, IN THE MUD!
View CommentYes we are all upset about the atv rules here. They will be allowing hunters extra access when hunting but we only get denied.
View Commentuntil we get rid of the fed you will always be told what to do by educated fools. we have lived here all our lives and now cant run a dog camp out where you want to or even go where you want. when the people get some balls and say no you will not tell me what to do because this land belongs to the people you will always bow down to yankee scum like forest service.
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