Oh, here we go again!
Not content with inviting all the ATVers in the world to their June parade in Silver Bay, the local ATV crowd is demanding that the North Shore State Trail be opened to their noisy and destructive vehicles.
As for the old slogan that "We just want a place for locals to ride," the latest demand is to eliminate the 90-mile limit on trails in Cook County. So, how many miles do you locals want permission to destroy fragile ecosystems and wildlife habitat on?
The US Forest Service process started last year with mucho public input to try to keep everybody happy has tanked. How thankless to try to find a way to preserve the environment by limiting the damage done by ATV rough riders, not to mention protecting quiet spaces. It isn't only the people who need peace and silence, it is the wild creatures who are terrified by the noise and smells and speedy depradations of the clueless folks who bring their joyless and lawless midget psyches blundering into the ancient forest.
It looks to be a long summer. Lovers of peace and quiet, beware!
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The biggest lie being floated right now is that Locals want this. Dill and Bakk are perpetrating this fraud.
Locals don't want this, ATVAM wants it and pushes their folks to show up en mass at meetings with public officials. Talk about noise and smell.
This has a LOT less to do with locals wants than to do with funneling money to people/OHV clubs who know they are beholden to Dill/ Bakk and talk up the grand poobahs in the local bars.
This is a racket. A big money funneling racket and anyone who thinks the "locals" are the ones who want it is buying the cover story and not listening to the many, many complaints from locals.
Just how do we get rid of Dill and Bakk? They are holding the rest of the legislature by the throat, controlling the committees via their longevity and building fiefdoms up here.
HELP!
Seems to me that most blogs are written by liberal, lefty, elitist dem. flower sniffers. Not surprising as the rest of us work for a living and don;t expect tax dollars to support us.
I want to know some details. I noted on the DNR cybernews that (a) Cook County doesn't seem to have that many trails but that (b) You can ATV on frozen waters. Which ones?
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