Land use/DNR meeting Wednesday!

[akram]

This meeting was the Citizens Advisory Board meeting for the state parks. As usual most things discussed were not concerning the 4x4 community. I talked to a cpl folks at the end of the meeting about us. As of now there aren't any state parks trails designated for our use or that even allow our use. Mention of motorized use was referring to ATV use. But hey we got a word out there about us atleast. One thing that was reinforced to me was that "WE" need to speak up. We need to voice our opinions and concerns to representatives, legislators, the parks division, dnr, blm, the advisory board and everyone else. It was stated that this year about $800,000 will be given to the Chena State recreation area for maintenance, further developement and other things. Why? because that was a big concern voiced to the the above people. The survey that was posted above is a good start for this. It was talked about there being a need for off road trails for our use.

The section of trail Joe is speaking about is off limits to us. I alked to one guy about it and he talked about how a bunch of jeeps had been up there once and tore up the trail pretty bad. He didn't really state when this was but it seemed like it was quite some time ago. It is obstacles like this that we will have to overcome.

Money was a big talk at the meeting. It seems that budget cuts and the economy are going to take a big tole on alot of trail issues.

So it boils down to each of us getting actively involved with keeping existing trails open and establishing new trail (unless fct and banner seem to be all you want to go on).