It's an issue of over-use. We're reaching a point in this province where these areas can't support the amount of use they get - never mind the abuse they get from a generally small minority.
What was fine and generally harmless when done by a few though causes a lot of problems when done by thousands. Hunters and fisherman have seen similar things - most of us would love to keep fish, for example. If everybody does that we destroy the fishery, so now it's catch and release for everybody.
There's nothing wrong with quadding and I can understand the frustration from people who've been doing it responsibly for a long time. It sucks to have everybody follow you in and ruin your thing.
We can ramp up enforcement, but it just makes it a death by a thousand cuts situation. Enforcement can't mitigate a small effect from a large number of people.
To make another fishing analogy, if we have a lake with 1000 fish and a limit of 1 fish per day, one guy has no noticeable effect. When there's 1000 people, that lake is fished out after a day, even if nobody keeps 2 fish.
So, we're left with a situation where there are just too many people trying to get a piece of the pie. We can a) make each piece smaller or b) let less people to the table or c) damage things until there's no pie left.
Which option do we want?
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