For the record the SXS was used to ride reclaimed strip job roads which are gravel. The autumn olives etc are severely overgrown and removing the paint from my truck which isn't small (f250) isn't something I enjoy, y'all are right the atvs do destroy the woods and many of the trails due to shear volume. In the areas I hunt many roads are never used so the impact is minimal but still there's an impact.
The elk eat everything as there's just not enough food for them given their size. They decimate the honeysuckle patches, and most new growth on the reclamations.
These are not the native elk we once had, these are western elk that are twice as big. They're rats, and while they're a great species they just don't belong here.