One of the main reasons to join is to support the political causes that come up, and to promote good shared uses in the state forests. Our local politic is really pretty good in capital forest now, the motorized ORVs have their own half of the mountain and we have ours, the local groups do a lot of good PR with hikers and bicyclists and it's a very friendly environment. But that takes work, and a lot of signs up reminding everyone who helps to maintain those trails for everyone.
Last year our winter project-approved by DNR was putting painted horse shoes up on the main trails at our campground, many side trails go of to nowhere so it was a great idea to get people from camp to trailhead etc.
We got them up last June, new DNR guys said 2 weeks later"take them all down,we don't want to look like we are benefiting horse people only" makes you want to pull your hair out sometimes.