Article in the Lakeland Times on the ATV trail proposal...

http://lakelandtimes.com/news.php?story=870

a good article by Kevin McCullough. Most important quote from Dennis Leith:

"We’d like to just try this out and see how it works, but we anticipate in the future that we would see a corridor trail on the forest that would go someplace and link up to Iron County or the U.P., or something like that,” according to Leith, who admitted it’s difficult to predict what the future holds for ATVs on state land."

Very clearly, this is a signal that the " loop trail" is a foot in the door to a larger trail system.

Second important quote:
“We don’t know what will happen as far as towns opening roads, crossing private property, things like that. We’d like to stay ahead of the game rather than open up a great big chunk of the forest to ATVs and then have to take that back. "

Whether or not the loop trail is stopped, we need to to anticipate the pressure on towns to open up town roads. Presque Isle's referendum probably precluded any town roads there in the near future-but what about the surrounding communities? Do we know what the mechanisms would be to opening up town roads to ATV's?