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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs

Trump wants to open nearly all national forest trails to dirt bikes and ATVs

All-terrain vehicles on a rough dirt road in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.

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