Victory!

As many of you know, the State Natural Resources Board voted on Wednesday to drop plans for ATV routes in the NHAL forest. I will post more on this, but just wanted to say it was a long battle.  In fact, this blog started about the time the DNR proposed a first trail for the Master Plan.  

More on this to follow.  Each time a trail proposal has been defeated, another seems to rise up.  Joel Patenaude writes that this will give us a reprieve till at least 2020, when the new Master Plan is in place, unless-and this is certainly a possibility-a trail is put in by legislative fiat.  We know from the pier fiasco that this could happen.  

But for now, the important lesson is that spirited opposition matters.  There will be some people to thank, in a later post.