ATVs banned at Little River Canyon NPres; Alabama legislators look for bypass
A decision by officials at Little River Canyon National Preserve in Alabama to ban ATVs as of today isn't setting well with some state lawmakers, who are looking to legislate a way around the ban.
Preserve officials say they are merely trying to conform to a decades' old Executive Order that officials at Cape Hatteras National Seashore ran afoul of and wound up being sued over: In 1972 President Nixon directed the National Park Service to draw up management plans for off-road vehicles in each of its units. Without such a formal plan, the vehicles are banned.