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KCET reported on Inyo County Off-Road Plan being reduced by 95 percent. They wrote

A controversial plan to open up hundreds of miles of dirt roads and city streets to off-road vehicles in Inyo County has been cut back by 95 percent as the result of a settlement in a legal battle over the plan.

Inyo County’s Adventure Trails System, which would originally have opened up 242 miles of roads in the county for off-road vehicle users, was the subject of a lawsuit by conservation groups who charged the plan would endanger both the environment and public safety — including the safety of ORV riders.

Read full article at Inyo County Off-Road Plan Scaled Way Back | ORVs | Revisit | KCET.