Introduction

 
Welcome to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) survey of off-highway vehicle (OHV) use on federal lands. The House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands has asked GAO to examine OHV use on federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), National Park Service (NPS), and Forest Service. Specifically, GAO was asked to identify trends in the amount of OHV use, potential environmental and human health and safety impacts, and how these agencies are managing OHV use and enforcing OHV regulations. Executive Order 11644 (Feb. 8, 1972, as amended) requires these land management agencies to monitor the effects of OHV use, and to manage OHV use in a manner that protects resources, promotes safety, minimizes user conflicts, and ensures compliance with regulations. We are therefore seeking manager perspectives from all BLM and Forest Service management units, and selected NPS units that have had any OHV use during fiscal years 2004 through 2008 (October 1, 2003, through September 30, 2008).

Your responses will be used, together with the responses of other units, to develop aggregate information and observations. GAO will report summary responses and may use some responses as case examples; however, we will not report survey information that identifies any specific unit.

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Thank you for your time and effort in completing this survey.
 

Contacts

 
If you have any questions about this survey as you proceed, please click on the "?" button at the bottom of each screen to reveal the contact names listed below:

For Forest Service:
[name, telephone number, and email address of one GAO staff appeared here]

For National Park Service:
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For Bureau of Land Management:
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