Alaska Quiet Rights Coalition

QUIET LINKS OF INTERESTS 
 
The Natural Trails and Waters Coalition works to protect and restore all public lands and waters from the severe damage caused by dirt bikes, jet skis and all other off-road vehicles. To achieve its mission, the Coalition is using a variety of legislative, administrative, legal, media, and grassroots strategies targeted at those who manage or make decisions or policies regarding our state and federal public lands.
 
Bluewater Network is a national environmental organization aggressively confronting the root causes of climate change and fighting environmental damage from the shipping, oil, and motorized recreation industries.
 
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse works to create more civil cities and more natural rural and wilderness areas by reducing noise pollution at the source.
 
The Sierra Club works to protect the wild places of the earth, practicing and promoting the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources. Sierra Club is working to protect public lands from damaging off-road vehicle use.
 
Friends of the Earth is a national, non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the planet from environmental degradation; preserving biological, cultural, and ethnic diversity; and empowering citizens to have an influential voice in decisions affecting the quality of their environment -- and their lives.
 
The Wilderness Society works to protect America's wilderness and to develop a nation-wide network of wild lands through public education, scientific analysis and advocacy. TWS's goal is to ensure that future generations will enjoy the clean air and water, wildlife, beauty and opportunities for recreation and renewal that pristine forests, rivers, deserts and mountains provide. TWS is stepping up efforts to insist that reasonable restrictions be applied to the use of ORVs on our national lands. TWS's campaign addresses National Forests, National Parks, the Bureau of Land Management, and National Wildlife Refuges. 
 
National Parks Conservation Association is the nation's only membership organization dedicated solely to protecting the entire park system. NPCA's Motorized Abuse Campaign seeks to eliminate damaging motorized recreation from the National Park System and to ensure that the impact of any new recreational activity be considered before it is allowed in national parks. NPCA considers personal watercraft (PWCs), snowmobiles, aircraft overflights, and wheeled off-road vehicles as the four greatest motorized threats to out national parks. By helping to regulate or remove destructive motorized uses from national parks, NPCA and the public can protect park resources and enhance the park experience for millions of visitors.
 
The Wildlands Center for Preventing Roads is a national clearinghouse and network, providing citizens with tools and strategies to fight road construction, deter motorized recreation, and promote road removal and revegetation. Wildlands CPR seek to protect native ecosystems and biodiversity by recreating an interconnected network of roadless public wildlands.
 
Native Forest Network's Last Refuge Campaign seeks permanent protection for roadless wildlands---"Last Refuges" where the land is still intact, wildlife still live in peace and humans are but fleeting visitors.
 
The Lands Council is a front-line activist-based forest conservation group that doesn't pull any punches. The Lands Council's work is centered in the inland Columbia River watershed: Eastern Washington, Northeastern Oregon, Northern Idaho and Western Montana. Program highlights include addressing the serious threats posed by ORVs to native biological diversity, water quality, and ecosystem health.
 
Winter Wildlands Alliance is the first and only national organization working to promote and preserve winter wildlands and a quality human-powered snow sports experience on public lands. The Alliance also addresses national issues impacting winter wildlands and human-powered snow sports -- such as snowmobiles in our National Parks -- to counteract the power of the well-funded motorized recreation organizations.
 
Wild Wilderness advocates for the protection and enhancement of those recreational activities most dependent upon what are commonly known as "wilderness values", namely: naturalness, solitude, challenge and inspiration. Wild Wilderness strives to ensure that Wilderness areas, roadless areas and other areas now substantially free of development will continue to provide outstanding opportunities for high quality, non-motorized, recreation.
 
Snowlands Network promotes opportunities for quality human-powered winter recreation, protects winter wildlands, and educates the public and government agencies about winter recreation and environmental issues. 
  
Minnesotans for Responsible Recreation (MRR) is celebrating 10 years of protecting quiet places, healthy trails, and waterways through their website.  This extremely active organization has many interesting and useful ideas that anyone can apply in their local area.  See how the public funds motorized recreation over $15 million/year at the gas pump.  Make copies of MRR's "Gas-Tax Flow Chart" and distribute them to friends and elected officials, post it in your office.  Learn how you can shift public funds for motorized recreation from promotion to mitigation at the local level.  Read MRR's "Counterpoint" to recent news that the DNR funded another illegally bulldozed dirt-bike motorcycle track. To discover more click on the link above.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has been working to protect America's wildlife since 1936.  They represent the power and commitment of four million members and supporters joined by affiliated wildlife organizations in 47 states and territories.  NWF channels the energy of thousands of volunteers from all walks of life to take action because they care about wildlife.  They unite Americans in their shared value of wildlife conservation.