He references an essay you can read in the next Silent Sports Magazine-but he makes other important references here...
"Dear nonmotorized trails advocates,
I want to share with you my take on a mixed bag of Wisconsin ATV
legislation I had a nominal hand in drafting. This polemic will appear
in the February issue of Silent Sports, which will go to press and be
sent to subscribers and newsstands by the end of this week
In the article I hope I make clear that several components of a draft
bill ought to be supported by the small "s" silent sports community.
Other parts of it, namely a possibly massive increase in the state ATV
fund, are worrying and deserve our opposition.
In a separate editor's letter in the February issue, not included
here, I argue specifically for 1) $500,000 for the needed Ice Age
Trail reroute, 2) an increase in the proposed ATV damage repair fund
from $30,000 each year for two years (I point out that a similar
program in Minnesota is paying more than that in damage claims), and
3) urge nonmotorized trail users throughout Wisconsin to file Trail
Safety and Incident Forms when they've encountered illegal ATV riding
and trail damage.
Also in the February issue is a first-hand account of the challenge of
keeping ATVs off Nature Conservancy Land in the Keweenaw Peninsula of
Michigan's U.P. It was written by a U.P.-based cofounder of WIldlands
CPR, an organization fighting the motorizing of our wild public
places. Check them out at www.wildlandscpr.org.
If you have any feedback, please don't hesitate. And I'm always
interested in publishing letters to the editor if you have thoughts
you would like to share with readers of the magazine.
Sincerely,
Joel Patenaude, Editor
Silent Sports"
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