Even the wilds of Alaska are not immune to the ravages of uncontrolled ATV use.

In his book, Alaska, Promises to Keep, Robert Weeden wrote, “Alaska’s special
vulnerability to damage to all-terrain vehicles is well known. … The
implications of high vulnerability and slow recovery of vegetation are especially important in wild areas. Wilderness is a valuable land characteristic, and it is becoming more valuable yearly. The cost of destroying or damaging wilderness, however hard it may be to calculate, is increasing. It is highest where the degree of change is greatest and where recovery times are longest. Public-land-use policies have not yet reflected the values of wildness fully even in designated wilderness areas, and scarcely at all in undesignated areas that are wild simply because they have been left alone.” (Weeden, 1978).


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