Hi everyone,
I imagine all of you have received Jerry Woolpy's excellent synopsis of the meeting. So you know that thanks to you, the May 5th public hearing was certainly an over whelming show of opposition to ATV's in the NH-AL State Forest.We feel that about 150 people packed the community center. If you were late I'm told parking was non-existant. 30 people spoke and 28 were opposed to ATV's. I gave Dennis Leith over 800 signatures from all over the state opposing ATV's.
This included the Online signatures and many that I received at the hearing. These were all accumulated in a little less than 2 weeks. There are still petitions out there and the Online site will continue until May 25th. I'm sure we will top 1,000 signatures.
WRJO (94.5 fm) had Ken Anderson interview Julie Hilary and Harry Griswald who gave very convincing arguments against the ATV trail in the forest. Their words were played on the radio all day Friday, May 6th.
Some of the speakers during the 6 to 8:30 hearing (it ran overtime) were eloquent. A young man from Mexico said that our public land is a jewel. There is nothing like it in Mexico. He said that all over the world we are running out of wilderness and lakes like we have in Vilas County. NH-AL, he said was unique, like the Grand Canyon. There is no place like it in the world.
Thank you very much for once more making it clear that residents of Vilas and visitors from through-out Wisconsin, love our public lands. You have drawn a protective line in the sand around NH-AL. I hope we win.
Now we must keep the pressure on. What's our next strategy? Ideas!! Sue Drum
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