NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Don Amador
Phone: 925.625.6287
Date: September 4, 2018
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NEW OHV WILDFIRE RECOVERY PROGRAM
OAKLEY, CA (Sept. 4) –
Quiet Warrior Racing (QWR), a national recreation consulting company, is
launching its new program in response to current and future wildfire impacts at
popular Forest Service, BLM, and state off-highway vehicle (OHV) areas. The Post Wildfire Recovery Strike Team module
will work to help address the effects that catastrophic wildfires can have on OHV
route and trail facilities.
Don Amador at Wildfire Recovery Area
BLM's Fort Sage OHV Area
Intense wildfires can destroy important OHV management
tools such as trail delineators, signs, kiosks, and campground facilities. Costly soil erosion and water quality trail
structures can often be obliterated by dozers creating access routes for
firefighters or blading fire lines around the blaze.
The program will help facilitate numerous volunteer
post-fire recovery projects at OHV recreation sites in collaboration with
stakeholders such as OHV clubs, volunteers, OHV Industry and other grant
programs, land agencies, and conservation groups in the delivery and implementation
of post-fire mitigation efforts.
Chris Conlin, Former Deputy Director of the California
Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division and Boating and Waterways
Division, states, “I strongly endorse QWR’s efforts to create a trail
stewardship program that is sharply focused on important post-wildfire recovery
efforts on federal and state recreation units that are being devastated in the
2018 Wildfire Season.”
“Both Don Amador and I have been long-time advocates for
creation of OHV-specific post-wildfire recovery and rehabilitation
programs. I believe this Strike Team
will have a strategic role in current and future collaborative efforts to
deliver crucial post-fire recovery assets at important public land recreation
sites,” Conlin concludes.
“Don Amador, President of Quiet Warrior
Racing/Consulting, states, “It’s clear to me that OHV recreation sites in
California and the West will continue to face the likelihood of more intense
wildfires over the next 10-20 years. I believe creation of our wildfire recovery
program it relevant and timely given the impacts that the Mendocino Complex,
Carr, and Ferguson Fires had on popular destination OHV areas.”
“I look forward to working with our land agency, OHV
club, and conservation partners to recover and reopen recreation areas
devastated in the 2018 Wildfire Season,” Amador concludes.
For information about opportunities to partner, sponsor,
or support the program please contact Don Amador at: damador@quietwarriorracing.com
LINK TO THE POST WILDFIRE RECOVERY STRIKE TEAM MODULE
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Don Amador has 28 years of experience in the field of OHV
recreation management, federal/state land-use policy, and post-wildfire
recovery. Don is president of Quiet
Warrior Racing/Consulting, an OHV recreation consulting company. Don serves as
Core-Team Lead for FireScape Mendocino, a forest-health collaborative that is
part of the National Fire Learning Network. Don also serves as Operations Chief for the
Post-Wildfire OHV Recovery Alliance. Don is a contributor to ModernJeeper.com.
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