The Appalachian Mountain Club has put together a 37,000-acre purchase of wildlands in northern Maine. And the club proposes to set aside 10,000 of those acres — defacto wilderness — as an ecological preserve, in part, at least, to protect wild native brook trout waters. The other 27,000 acres would remain open to snowmobilers. Oh, but that’s not good enough for some of the motorheads. Read the Bangor Daily News’ coverage of this latest in a long series of “access” dust-ups here.
Another dust-up about “access”
January 15, 2007 · 2 Comments
Categories: Appalachian Mountain Club · access · conservation easements · sleds · snowmobilers · wilderness
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Mike // January 15, 2007 at 4:11 pm |
Are you kidding me? What is it with the ORV crowd and not wanting to keeping any wildlands?
Alan Gregory // January 15, 2007 at 6:01 pm |
Pure selfishness, I suppose. This is why I’ve saying no ATV trails – period – on public land.
I was up in Maine (not far the place mentioned in this article, in fact) a year ago September to do some fishing and noticed entire networks of ATV trails on private land. Give them a trail on public land and it will only be minutes or even mere seconds before they go off the trail.