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Mission Statement: The Mission of the Nevada Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition (NOHVCO) is to Represent, assist, educate, and empower OHV recreationist in the protection and promotion of off-highway motorized recreation throughout Nevada. NOHVCO is an environmental organization that advocates and promotes the responsible use and conservation of our public lands and natural resources to preserve their aesthetic and recreational qualities for future generations.  Board Members: Charlie Cox, Zack Livreri, Elise McAllister, Timm Martin, Brian Doyal & Ron Lommis. Motorized Users and Public Lands: Do you know what these various designations are and if motorized recreation is allowed in them. Roadless Areas, National Monuments, National Scenic Areas (NSA), National Conservation Areas (NCA), National Recreation Areas (NRA), Wilderness Area, Wilderness Study Area (WSA), and a new classification National Wildlife Protection Area? All are congressional creations and do not rely on specific law except for a wilderness area. Each is created by an individual legislative enactment that allows or prohibits specific commercial, administrative and recreational activities. Only two NCA’s which is BLM land and NRA’s which is Forest Service lands provide for any opportunity for motorized recreation. The rest are essentially non-motorized prescriptions. Any negotiation between a recreational group and the hard core crowd needs to begin with “How many millions of acres of non-motorized are enough?” Everything from forest health, fire control, water diversions and reasonable commodities sales has been foreclosed for the sake of non-motorized areas. Stopping roads, decommissioning roads, stopping access, stopping people, equals Wilderness. Remember, no Congress may bind another. Today’s National Protection Area is tomorrow’s wilderness. Consider once the rest of the world gets the boot 5, 10, 20 years down the road the wilderness crowd will be back asking for the official wilderness designation. Think, what exactly has the land been prepared for as defacto wilderness? In order for NOHVCO to become effective it will take commitment on your part. This organization needs your membership and money. We have to be able to go before the legislature, or county commissioners or whoever and be able to say that we have a membership of 2000 or 2500 or? We need to raise enough money to keep our staff attending every meeting throughout the state whenever off highway recreation is talked about and threatened. We have to be pro active. I for one am tired of starting in last place. I want this organization to be in the fore front on issues. Join today and contribute something over and above your membership amount to the land use fund.
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NOHVCO UPDATE: I want to share some of what we have been working on these last few months. We have spent time on finalizing the by-laws and standard operating procedures. We have received our non profit corporate status from the Secretary of State. We have developed and printed a tri fold brochure containing our mission statement, propose and a membership form. We have created a functioning web site. We have met with the Nevada commission on tourism to explore the economic benefits of OHV’s to the state of Nevada and started a cooperative effort to promote OHV recreation throughout the State. We have two representatives serving on an advisory board to the Nevada association of county commissioners. This Board is looking is working on a resolution for the appropriate use of off highway vehicles that can be adopted by all the counties in the state. We traveled to Colorado to meet with the Colorado Off Highway Vehicle Coalition. In attendance at that meeting was Jack Welch, President of the Blue Ribbon Coalition and Tom Metsa the director of Colorado State Parks. The purpose of this meeting was to review how other states and national organizations are dealing with current closures and restrictions. As the National Forest’s and BLM throughout the country are in the process of travel management revisions and road designations it is imperative that we stay a breast of all viable alternatives that have been successful in keeping trails open. We have met with representatives from Clark County and reviewed a proposal that would change the management of the Nellis Dunes area from BLM to Clark County. This proposal has some great benefits such as creating a 600 acre motto-cross park, while still leaving the other 10 thousand acres open to free play. The main objective is to keep this area as an OHV area for perpetuity. The biggest obstacle of the plan is getting the congress of the United States to deed federal land (BLM land) to Clark County. We will be participating in the roads designation work shop in Reno from August 23rd to 26th. Look for more information on this later. THIS JUST IN! WE WON! We had a representative at the Fernley City Council meeting on August 15th where the town was considering enacting laws that would severely restrict the use of OHV’s and because enough concerned enthusiasts showed up the Fernley City Council rejected the proposed ordinance.
So if this sounds like something you would like to join click on the link below. Print out the membership form fill it out and mail it in to Charlie Cox. Membership Form
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