ATV Florida Forum

Found a picture of my buggy and other ORV categories on this site.
Apparently some research was done regarding the impact of ORV's on small mammals in prairies.
Not much info on there , just a brief cover on the research and gives you an idea to what extent research can be done if an area were to be closed.
A small rat is all it takes .

Impacts of Off-Road Vehicle Use on Small Mammals in Big Cypress

http://www.wec.ufl.edu/coop/print/posters/2006jeffery.pdf

ummmmm, so some rats were afraid of quads, and some liked them and thrived because they were there?

Like Tom Hanks said in "Big"       I don't get it.

;-)

Id@

That is un freaking believable. I wonder who paid for that study?

Mostly like we the people funded  that research , USGS and University of Florida are indicated on the bottom .

 My issue with this research and all the concern over the well being of small mammals is ...why don't they adress the problem of water missmanagement with South Florida Water Management regarding the  flooding we get yearly ?
No uproar about that from all the friends of the  fill the blank critter lovers.

Those who are familiar with the cypress know that by September there is atleast a foot of water everywhere ,in some places waist deep and a few inches in the pines .
Dry ground is rare commodity  for large critters such as deer and hogs ( forget hogs they are all gone ,but thats a different subject).  So imagine a Rice Rat which is the size of a small mouse ,every bit of 4'' tall on all fours coping with 18" of water in some 790,000 acres.
Whats a bigger threat to wildlife ,buggies or an agencies  ?

Its a bit alarming to read of this study knowing its intended purpose .
 
 :F

I will be e-mailing the president of U of F, the dept chair and I will ask where they arew getting there funding from. Then I'm going to ask for a permit to have a protest against the university and their "social engineering" studied. I will post all of this as soon as Monday. I suggest other do the same if we are to stop these A$$ holes. My .02.....

Very well said.

Aaaagggghhhh!!!

I am so sick to this stupidity. 

I wish the major universities of Florida would do a study on the real impact to the environment....land development.

But I guess when there are large sums of grant money at stake to conduct studies the major things that impact Florida's environment just become invisible.  The thousands upon thousands of acres of woods destroyed by bulldosers, earthmovers, road graders, etc for housing developments, golf courses and roads has absolutely no impact at all on animals especially small mammals.

Ony when land development stops being the huge 'cash cow' for polititians, govermnent leaders and lobbyists will its affects become important.  By then though it will be too late to do any good.