No... it not NJCF property... It's private property and if you were on it... then you were trespassing!
Also the oily residue in the water isn’t from off roads vehicles, but decomposing plants.
Or another way to look at it is those tracks are going to create an abundance of new life in a dieing bog.
Russell... It’s this the same place "Watershed Fred" aka: Fred Akers loves to go to shoot all his Anti ATV stuff?
TheBronzeMan
Bronze, sorry, I haven't been to the site in a while. I don't know where Fred goes to shoot photos of ORV damage. His stomping grounds are mostly much farther south.
I can tell you this, though, that particular kind of scene is not hard to find. And the habitat is exceptional. Sunny, open, wet places are where most of the imperilled plants are found. Nobody can say what was killed there, or how long it may take to recover, especially when you consider that the same guys may come back every week, or another bunch may start coming in there.
I have seen plenty of wetland communities where all the vegetation has been destroyed, and if it begins to come back, it keeps getting destroyed, obviously, over and over again.
This is a good example of why we need to step up enforcement regardless of how the parks process unfolds. I'm willing to bet, the guys who did that are going to keep on riding like that, no matter how many parks get built.
We need to get photos of them in the act whenever we can, and we need to use our cell phones to turn them in. Cameras and phones might not help the law enforcement guys to identify them or catch them, but at least it increases the odds, and it only takes a few minutes.
