Strategy 3.  Encourage Dispersal of Traffic in Remote Areas
Tactic 3.1  Encourage Visitors to Avoid Existing Routes in Remote Areas
Purpose Prevent or reduce resource damage by dispersing traffic and avoiding existing routes in remote areas that receive light use. 
Description Research by Deuver (1981) indicates that routes receiving only a few passes per year can quickly recover. In areas that receive very limited traffic ORV riders would be encouraged to disperse their traffic to new resistant routes and avoid repeated use of existing routes. Annual traffic on any single route should not exceed that which can recover within a one year period.
Costs to  
ORV Visitors
Mod-High. Visitors may have to travel further or in unfamiliar terrain in order to avoid repeat use of preferred routes. May restrict ability to visit traditional places.
Costs to 
Management
Low. Such a policy need only be communicated with supporting documentation of its rationale. 
Effectiveness Very Low. Visitors may ignore recommendation and use the most common and direct route.
Comments Terrain features and vegetation tend to constrain traffic to a common set of routes, restricting the potential for dispersing traffic to a large number of routes that receive only a few passes annually. In practice, this strategy is rarely effective and often increases the total area of disturbance. May only be effective in dry seasons or with lighter vehicles. 
 

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