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Our USFS permits do grant us exclusive use of campsites and vet check areas--and those areas are often posted as being reserved on the ride dates.  It would be impossible to control public access to 50 miles of trail, but the agencies have never thought it amiss if RMs encourage the public to take other routes while the ride is in progress.  And in grazing areas, we may indeed be the only recreational people allowed on the trails, as we have to get permission from the grazing permittees to be there at all.

 

Heidi

> The ride manager has a specific permit for those trails
> for that day, and as such, has every right to insist that
> unentered horses not be out there.  Think of it as being
> like a public campground--if all the spaces are full, the
> campground host can turn people away, even though
> it is "public."

I have never been to an endurance ride where the ride managers were
given the exclusive use of public trails, and I can't imagine any public
land manager issuing such a permit.  

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