Past activities include:

• Opposed bumper-height legislation in Virginia that would have reduced the legal bumper height for many popular 4x4 vehicles, including JeepsŪ. United spoke with Senator Blevin's (introducing Senator) office to express our opposition to the bill which was killed for this legislative session. United routinely corresponds with state legislators concerning proposed vehicle suspension modification legislation to ensure that such bills are reasonable and fair or are withdrawn.
  
  
• Promoted changes to unfair Recreation Fee bill passed by Congress in 2005. Worked to ensure version of the bill that passed would give decision-making power to local four wheel drive enthusiasts for where new fee areas were set up and for what expenses fees were used for. In particular, ensured that the bill that passed instituted a citizen's advisory committee for such planning.
  
  
• Opposed additional burdens for four wheel drive club events and special use fee changes within the United States Forest Service.
  
  
• Involved extensively in the development of proper OHV route inventory standards and designation process conducted by the United States Forest Service to ensure that the process they created was fair and balanced to meet the ever growing needs for access for four wheel drive enthusiasts and to limit road and trail closures.
  
  
• Participated in invitation-only meeting with United States Forest Service to develop goals and methods for the agency to meet the increased needs of motorized recreation on National Forests over the next century.
  
  
• Worked closely with other prominent national recreation organizations by serving as principal author of recreation position paper presented to the Bureau of Land Management promoting OHV route planning on federally managed lands. Promoted implementation of "open to existing routes" management for OHV use and strongly opposed any attempt by the Bureau of Land Management to issue orders that would manage areas as "closed unless posted open".
  
  
• Challenged improper road closures by filing multiple legal appeals in various states nationwide, including Michigan and Colorado. United routinely files administrative cases with the Bureau of Land Management, the United States Forest Service, and the National Park Service to protect four wheel drive access.
  
  
• Drafting comments on the proposed Land and Resource Management Planning Rule (Planning Rule) comments are due April 6, 2003. There are over 200 pages of documentation with this proposed rule making. This is the single most important issue with the U.S. Forest Service as it will guide forest plan revisions for the next 20 years. To protect 4x4 access, changes to detrimental language from the 2000 planning rule (drafted under the Clinton Administration) which required forest conditions to resemble forest composition from the 1500s (prior to the invention of the combustion engine, prior to the invention of electricity, the printing press, or automobiles) are required.
  
  
• Drafting proposed permanent fee demonstration bill. United conducted a survey and the results have been tallied. Those results are being used to draft a bill to be submitted for legislative action.
  
  
• Monitoring the newly filed suit by the Wilderness Society against the National Park Service to compel the NPS to conduct Wilderness studies. This suit will no doubt serve as a template for similar actions, particularly against the BLM, to compel other agencies to conduct further Wilderness studies. United is considering the possibility of joining the NPS as intervenors. The suit was filed the week of January 17th, 2003.
  
  
• Working with Jeep to correct advertising brochures depicting 4x4 use that fail to Tread Lightly. United has requested Jeep reinstate Jeep Environmental Council.
  
  
• Working with three insurance companies to develop proposal for event insurance through United and then offered to member clubs and associations.
  
  
• Participating strategically on two other land access law suits: one against the BLM challenging length and legality of emergency closures and one against the USFWS challenging validity of critical habitat designation.