| 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. |