SEMA Offers Helpful Land Use Guide

A “Guide to Land Use Policies & Off-Road Recreation” has just been added to our arsenal of information to help us fight back to keep our public lands open and our sports alive. Released by our friends at SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association), this guide offers some helpful stuff:

• Some insight into major laws that dictate land use;
• A look at the federal agencies who control our public lands by administering these laws;  
• A listing of the some of the organizations that SEMA works with to protect the rights of off-road enthusiasts;  
•  Provides SEMA’s position on these issues.

While much of this information is offered on other websites or through enthusiast organizations, SEMA adds to our collective fight by putting these key topics in one place through their SEMA Action Network (SAN) that really assists off-road businesses. I found this collection of key laws, government agencies, major land use groups and SEMA positions quite helpful as an enthusiast as well.

The SEMA SAN also has quite a collection of legislative resources that compliment what the off-road organizations offer, including model legislation, a listing of federal legislators, and a guide to lobbying elected officials. The SAN is free to join from their website.

Go here for more on the land use Guide and SAN: http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=62625

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Del Albright
Save My Trails (How to)
BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC) Ambassador
Cal4Wheel (CA4WDC), Environmental Affairs
Access Army

SEMA Show, Las Vegas

I'm in Las Vegas for the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show. There's nothing else like it on earth. It's for businesses, manufacturers and dealers; and it's huge. We'll be doing three days of walking around the show. The SEMA folks are good supporters of land use and access as well. BlueRibbon Coalition and other major groups are partnered up with SEMA in different ways to save trails and keep our sports alive.

This week also includes the annual meeting of the North American Motorized Recreation Council (NAMRC). Several motorized groups will be coming together for an all day session on sharing common problems and finding solutions we can all use in our home organizations.

Learn more about SEMA here: http://www.sema.org/
Learn more about NAMRC here: http://www.namrc.com/
Learn more about BlueRibbon here: http://www.sharetrails.org/

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