The congressional delegations of two states are pulling together to ensure “reasonable” year-round access to the Wolf Pen Gap area of the Ouachita National Forest by off-highway vehicles.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., said Thursday that she hosted a meeting in her office in Washington, D.C., Wednesday evening with U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-District 4, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, of Oklahoma, to discuss how to work together on the issue.

“The Oklahoma folks were pretty distressed, as well,” Lincoln said in a...

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