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BlueRibbon Coalition Supports H.R. 5580—National Monument Designation Transparency And Accountability Act
Pocatello, ID -- The BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC), a national trail-based recreational advocacy group, has announced its support of the National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act (H.R. 5580).
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July 28, 2010
Notice Of A Public Listening Session On The President’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative
Please join senior representatives from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a public listening session and discussions in Utah on conservation, recreation and reconnecting
July 27, 2010
Coalition Opposes Boosting Ethanol Mix In Gas To 15 Percent
An odd coalition of environmental and business groups is banding together to head off a move to increase the amount of ethanol in gasoline to 15 percent, up from 10 percent in most places now.
July 26, 2010
Yellowstone Releases Draft Winter Use Alternatives
Comments received during public scoping in January, February and March have been reviewed and considered. They were used to help create a draft range of alternatives, which were released late last week.
July 23, 2010
WSSA Needs Help To Save Riding Areas
Washington state is about to lose major riding areas that will pave the way to make it easier for motorized users to lose additional areas statewide in the future.
July 21, 2010
This Is Easy And Will Only Take A Minute But Will Make A Lot Of Difference
Please take a minute to fill out the attached PDF. It will only take a minute but will make a lot of difference in preserving access to Idaho's Boulder-White Clouds region.
July 20, 2010
Swedish Snocross Champion Johan Lidman Joins Team Sportech Racing
Elk River, MN - One of the most talented, up and coming snocross stars in the world is coming to race against the best of the best in the International Series of Champions (ISOC) National tour this winter.
July 15, 2010
Now This Is Scary
If you thought that environmental groups and their allies in Congress would be happy with just locking up vast tracts of land in Wilderness to eliminate motorized recreation, boy were you wrong.
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Fly Racing’s Snocross Champ Makes A Fan For Life
Snocross national champion Ross Martin, who races for Judnick Motorsports/Jack Link’s Polaris, made a fan for life after the national finals in Lake Geneva, WI, March 21, 2010.
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Summer Survival: We Test Polaris' 2010 RZR 4 Robbie Gordon Edition Side-By-Side UTV
If time flies when you're having fun, summer will be over in no time.
April 29, 2010 | Views 1635
BRP Recalls Snowmobiles Due To Laceration Hazard From Projectiles
The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using the product immediately unless otherwise instructed.
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Polaris To Realign Manufacturing Operations
MINNEAPOLIS – In an effort to improve its long-term competitive positioning, increase operational efficiencies and position the company for future growth, Polaris Industries (NYSE: PII) yesterday announced plans to realign its operations and refocus on its core strategic manufacturing processes. The
May 31, 2010 | Views 1578
Klim Line Increased By 32 Percent
Rigby, Idaho - As snowmobilers, our gear requirements are very specific to the type of riding we do, but also differ from one rider to the next. A garment that works well for one rider may not work well for another. That’s why the clothing we wear needs to be built more precisely and accurately to fit
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Now This Is Scary
If you thought that environmental groups and their allies in Congress would be happy with just locking up vast tracts of land in Wilderness to eliminate motorized recreation, boy were you wrong.
April 28, 2010 | Views 1029
I Have Got To Get Me One Of These
Check out the video (cut and paste this link it your browser) titled “Snow Vehicle Concept.”
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Don’t Quit Now, The Season Just Started
You can’t count on anything these days. The only thing less reliable than the economy anymore is winter. There have been pockets of good snow out West early on this season, but there have also been pockets of crappy snow … or pockets of no snow. But it’s not necessarily because we’re having worse winters
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The Buzz About The Phazer MTX
Many times, when there is talk about which sleds are ideal for those who want to break into mountain riding, the discussion usually focuses on the 600 class or sometimes even the mountain fan class, which is down to one machine for 2010.
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M1000 still biggest stock sled on earth
The 2010 Arctic Cat M1000 comes to the market as a warmed-over 2009—not that that is a bad thing by any stretch, as the ‘09 M1000 was bestowed with some major improvements over the previous year’s model.
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10 Simple Ways To Improve Clutch Performance
It seems like there is always one guy in every group whose sled runs just a little bit better than everybody else’s. What does he do different than you? After all, you’re running the same sled with the same parts, you have the same track and you even weigh the same. The difference probably lies in the
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Good Ideas/Bad Ideas
A couple of years ago I was off doing the “magazine guy’s job” of riding on assignment with a group of snowmobilers. It was your typical ride where I was trying to get enough photos and information to write a story while several members of the group were busy showing off their skills in hopes of being
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Economic State Of The Mountain 600 Class
It wasn’t too many years ago that fan-cooled sleds and then the liquid-cooled 500cc machines were the economy class of mountain snowmobiles. They were a relative bargain compared to other mountain sleds and they were fairly inexpensive to maintain. Those machines weren’t intimidating and they seemed
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Whose Job Is It?
I was sitting in a lecture hall at a local university the other day and noticed a bank of burned out lights in the ceiling.
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Mountain 4-Strokes
Twenty-ten was shaping up to be a significant model year for four-stroke mountain sleds. It still is, but what did (or didn’t) happen was enough to make us at SnoWest separate the four-stroke mountain sleds out from the two-strokes, bunch them together and compare them head-to-head. But here we are
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