Texas basically has NO public lands. The only public place we have to wheel is in navigable river bottoms. Quite a few of these rivers have large granite rock formations that make great rockcrawling in the summer when the rivers dry out to a trickle. If you want to see some pics go to www.frankentaco.com.

A lot of landowners along the rivers would like to see this use stopped so they can enjoy and enhance the value of their "estates" by stopping the publics use of public land. They have gone to the Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPW) to get OHV use banned while they do a 5 year study to see if such use is impacting stream life...although to date there has been no indication of any negative impact. :flipoff: The TPW biologists are pretty receptive to this. As one told me "even though there is no evidence of any impact, it just isn't 'right' for a truck to drive up a river bottom".

There is a meeting on Feb 27 and we have started a petition to present to the TPW. The only information that will be given to TPW is name and county and the rest will be confidential. Here is a link to the petition...anybody who can sign will be appriciated.

http://128.83.80.200/hcor/tmp/index.html

I've tried to sign twice (two seperate sessions of several attempts each:)) today and keep getting the same error message...

Error
An error occurred while processing your request:
Position: Insert
Class: DBMS
Main Error Number: -3702


[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Field 'Table1.comments' cannot be a zero-length string.
S1000


Position: Insert
Class: Internal
Main Error Number: -101


Error during data source operation.





:usa:

You have to fill in all the fields

I did - 6 times :) I even tried closing my browser and re opening it and trying again...

I just now got it to work :D


:usa:

Thanks for the support guys.

I understand you have to fill in all the fields...even comments for it to accept.

Although TPW is also looking at shutting us down, the meeting this week is with the Joint Legislative Committee of the Texas Natural Resources Committee. So this is actually on the legislative front. We are facing a two pronged attack from the legilature and the TPW :(

If you haven't sign now...the meeting is coming soon!

Originally posted by paniolo
Thanks for the support guys.

I understand you have to fill in all the fields...even comments for it to accept.

Although TPW is also looking at shutting us down, the meeting this week is with the Joint Legislative Committee of the Texas Natural Resources Committee. So this is actually on the legislative front. We are facing a two pronged attack from the legilature and the TPW :(

If you haven't sign now...the meeting is coming soon!

I borrowed from the site and posted it on the Cowtownjeep.com forms. Hopefully, that'll get to some more FWD-FWD area guys.

OK, just got emailed the agenda...the summary is they are out to get us. If you can't attend letters to the senators and reps listed at the top would be good. there addresses are on the links listed above.:


Texas Joint Committee on Water Resources


Senator J.E. "Buster" Brown Representative David Counts

Co-Chair Co-Chair

Senator David Bernsen Representative Robby Cook

Senator Teel Bivins Representative Robert Puente

AGENDA

10:00 am, Wednesday, February 27, 2002

Capitol Extension, Room E1.012

Austin, Texas

************************************************

I. Call to Order and Roll Call



II. Committee Business

* Co-Chairman Brown

* Co-Chairman Counts

Adoption of Minutes from December 13, 2001



III. INVITED TESTIMONY

Environmental & Wildlife Water Permitting and Development

* Statutory - Regulatory Panel

* Margaret Hoffman, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission

* Larry McKinney, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

* Gary Powell, Texas Water Development Board

* Martin Hubert, Texas Department of Agriculture


* Environmental Flow Strategies Panel

* Dean Robbins, Texas Water Conservation Association

* Bill West, Guadalupe Blanco River Authority

* Joe Beal, Lower Colorado River Authority


* Stakeholder Panel

* Myron Hess, National Wildlife Federation

* Ben Vaughan, III, Coastal Conservation Association

* George Ward, University of Texas, Austin

Protection of State-Owned Riverbeds

* 4x4 Task Force Update, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

* Stakeholder Panel

* Con Mims, Nueces River Authority

* Brian Sybert, Sierra Club

* Carol Smith, American Motorcyclists Association Community Council

IV. PUBLIC TESTIMONY

OPEN PUBLIC TESTIMONY

Environmental & Wildlife Water Permitting and Development

Protection of State-Owned Riverbeds

Other Charges of the Joint Committee on Water Resources

V. Future Hearings and Other Business

VI. Recess

People, us Texans need your help ASAP!!! Please sign the above petition...this is no laughing matter, as we do not have amassing public lands.

Thanks in advance!!
Max

I'll be in attendance at the meeting tomorrow, anyone else going to make it?

Some of the guys from Longhorn Offroad (UT offroad club) should be there

Some (two:mad3: ) of our members will be there, but we have some documents to submit. Hopefully the committee will get to them...