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Off-Road Rules: Timber, Mining and Off-Road-Vehicle Lobbyists Advocate Staking Road Claims All Over the West

Should you be able to drive anywhere you damn well please? An alliance of local officials and timber, mining, and off-road-vehicle lobbyists—along with their friends in the White House—have dug up a Civil-War-era statute to stake road claims all over the West.

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