as longtime leasers of property within the ocala national forest & cabin owners on the land, we are opposed.
we see damage done by unauthorized trucks,cars,atvs in areas of the forest adjacent to us that are not & should not be accessible to motor vehicles including damages to forested areas, lakes/ponds/swamps and wildlife areas. yet these vehicles continue to make their own access, damage & pollute the forest, leaving trash & abandoned party paraphernalia, furniture & in one case, a truck driven into & abandoned in a nearby pond.
we've seen abandoned homeless camps with piles & piles of trash left behind. we've also reported a fire set by unauthorized campers or hunters whose campfire wasn't extinguished properly & started a multiacre fire necessitating not only marion co fire dept but usfs helicopters lifting water out of our small lake multiple times to dump out fire. this lake level btw is at an all time low despite it being spring fed.
please we should be maintaining protections for our remaining national forest lands, the water sources around & within & forest wildlife habitat. thank you for not forwarding this proposed rule.