Sounds to me that some did not agree with the Council closing the road/area from what the article says.  This is one side of the story and is obviously biased to their side.

We don't know who even removed the baricades, etc. but sounds more like a case of civil disobedience than vandals.

This should not be viewed in my mind as a representation of most OHV riders, but I can tell you, people are getting fed up with these BS closures and getting fed up with the OHV community being the only ones that are blamed for issues with our fisheries, etc.

Personally, if the government were to shut down all area in the province to OHVs, there would be mass disobedience, and I'd be one of them.

I agree.  This particular issue, with what one can gleam from the article, seems like there's more to it.

You don't usually see someone come in an area just after a group has just worked on it, put up barricades, etc. and remove it.  This sounds like someone doesn't agree with the closure and is deliberately saying "up yours" to those that closed it.

I can see more of this push back happening in the future.

I don't agree with the reasons they are shutting down areas, I don't agree with their "science" and I don't agree with singling out OHV users, so yes, if there is a province wide ban, I'll ignore it.  I'm sick of government weenies and their agenda-driven psychos dictating to me where I can and cannot go in this province. 

I'm not talking just hunting, I like to ride for recreation also.

30 years ago, many used trucks to get their meat out instead of OHVs, that's all that's changed.

One thing about some fishermen that bother me, I watched an online discussion where they on one hand argued that if there is ANY impact to fish from an OHV crossing a stream, they should be banned.  Then these same guys argue in another thread that even though there is scientific proof that catch and release fishing causes mortality to a certain percentage of fish released, they are okay with that mortality rate, as long as they get to keep fishing.  See the hypocrisy here?  With regard to the Castle closure, I guess building fancy resorts, in the area that our Environment Minister is said to have recently purchased property, doesn't harm the environment, but a few OHV trails do. 

What a joke, and you actually support this nonsense?

That's one of the reasons that I'll ignore some of these draconian decisions being made by the government, because the hypocrisy is staggering.

This one instance though, you have to admit, seems a bit strange.   There has to be more to this story and I'm guessing that there are a bunch of locals that have ridden there for years and don't agree with this decision.  This was not I don't think the work of just some casual OHV riders.

Some people are really sick!

Really guys? If OHVs are banned for conservation reasons, you would ignore that? How 'responsible' is that? What's wrong with hiking in and hauling your meat out, the same way we did thirty years ago. Are you too tied to technology?


Heck, I'm a senior who has been collecting CPP for 6 years now. I'll still go back 3, 5, 10 and even 15 miles back, and make numerous trips to haul meat out. Truth is, one normally doesn't have to go further than 5 miles from a road if there are no OHVs are around, and one pretty well has the place to themselves. Hunters seem to be pretty lazy if they "need an OHV". Walk, hike or use horses. It worked for millenia, and it still does.

Lol,, what ever,, anybody that talks like that doesn't know what 5, 10 or even 15 miles in the bush is lol. And save the explanation, YOU DONT KNOW what 10 miles in the bush is. 

How many animals have been left in the woods that ran into a swamp, fell off a cliff, or ran into cover so thick that you needed a  chain saw crew to recover the meat?  An OHV becomes pretty handy in these situations.  Especially when you are in places where nobody goes.

When you drive OHV's up and down trout streams and wonder why there are no fish, it is time for $1000 tickets like they have  in B.C.

Just sayin.

Exactly boys, punish the abusers not the user. No shame in me for using a quad, darn rights I use it, lots but I also respect the land. I don't hunt in that region so if they did ban them be no skin off mine but we all know it won't stop there it will just go on and on until they have every hunter and every user out of the bush. Then the snivelling libtards will just go after the next thing and the next.

It's Atv's now and I can see why due to the rip and tear crowds but don't think for a second it won't be powered boats in our lakes and rivers in the sights of the anti's next.

 I can drive the same moose area year after year on a quad, muskeg and all and come back the next August and it's all green grass again. How does that deserve a ban? It's how you go about it that makes the difference.

Enforcement with big fines etc in the bush and education at the dealers is the way we change the rip and tear crowds attitude.

Still would like an explanation for the 15 mile hike one way there and back with meat.

I did a 14 mile walk when I was a teenager.Measured distance between two towns.

Took me 3 hours and this was on flat ground beside the highway.

And no effing way was I going back.

Or your parents did't take you far enough out, you found your way back.