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<blockquote data-quote="Korhil78" data-source="post: 559525" data-attributes="member: 34818"><p>I would rather not have ATVs out there at all but in most public land areas in New Mexico, you can use your ATV to retrieve your animal after you have killed and tagged it. </p><p> </p><p>In my line of work, we use ATVs all the time. I have seen first hand what they do to the country and I am sorry to say (for the elderly folks) that the land is better off without ATVs going through it. We have access to all public land (anytime) and most private land (if we have to). We stay on roads though until circumstances take us off of established roads and then we will go off road. </p><p> </p><p>After a while, ATVs do tear up land and it takes a while for the land to repair itself. At work, it is quite rare that we go over the same tracks over and over. But hunters all want to go to the same areas where the game is and it causes people to follow old ATV tracks which makes the ground worse and worse. New roads are made because one person rode their ATV through an area and now other people are trying to go the same way and see that trail and take it. So, it gets used over and over. I am sorry but ATVs are much more destructive than any horse. Horses have been going down those trails that you see for more than 100 years and the trail is not that wide. Just think if you had a 100 year old ATV trail going through an area. It would look much worse than the horse trail.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Korhil78, post: 559525, member: 34818"] I would rather not have ATVs out there at all but in most public land areas in New Mexico, you can use your ATV to retrieve your animal after you have killed and tagged it. In my line of work, we use ATVs all the time. I have seen first hand what they do to the country and I am sorry to say (for the elderly folks) that the land is better off without ATVs going through it. We have access to all public land (anytime) and most private land (if we have to). We stay on roads though until circumstances take us off of established roads and then we will go off road. After a while, ATVs do tear up land and it takes a while for the land to repair itself. At work, it is quite rare that we go over the same tracks over and over. But hunters all want to go to the same areas where the game is and it causes people to follow old ATV tracks which makes the ground worse and worse. New roads are made because one person rode their ATV through an area and now other people are trying to go the same way and see that trail and take it. So, it gets used over and over. I am sorry but ATVs are much more destructive than any horse. Horses have been going down those trails that you see for more than 100 years and the trail is not that wide. Just think if you had a 100 year old ATV trail going through an area. It would look much worse than the horse trail. [/QUOTE]
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