Is there any way to balance the interests of off-road vehicles and environmental concerns? The short answer to this is no. Off-road vehicles are extremely damaging to the environment, especially because the physical terrain favored by ORVs is that of the desert (which lacks trees and rocks to get in the way of the vehicles, which can then speed around faster). The desert is, of course, an extremely fragile environment, one that can stand very little intervention. There is simply no way that ORVs can use desert lands without harming them. And this damage is made worse by the fact that the kind of people who are inclined to want to ride ORVs have a culture that is at its heart scornful of the environmental
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