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Date Posted: 10/ 4/07 11:31:55pm
Author: Russ Chastain
Subject: Re: Scenic Byway could influence hunting in ONF
In reply to: Lisa P 's message, "Scenic Byway could influence hunting in ONF" on 09/20/07 4:30:17pm

Bah!

ONF is turning to crud way too fast already! Trailheads, ATV fees and trails all through the woods I have hunted for decades, vehicle restrictions and torn-up tight roads in addition to the new ATV fees and restrictions keeping hunters from getting into areas they would like to hunt... it is sucking.

And it sounds like this byway mess would really hose things even more.

I have been hunting the ONF woods since I was a kid, and now I live there, but it's getting to the point where I can't even enjoy the forest I grew to love in my youth.

Russ

> The Scenic Byway being proposed and is close to
>being approved on SR40. It will effect the whole of
>the ONF, and in fact, the Corridor Advocacy Group
>(CAG) is trying to get either Rick Lint, the sitting
>manager for ONF OR Jim Thorsen, former manager for
>ONF, to chair the Corridor Management Entity (CME).
>
> The CME will manage the roads and lands along and
>within the corridor. These areas will not be managed
>by local county commissioners, but by the CME, a group
>of people who volunteer to be on the CME. Each of the
>five counties this corridor goes through will have
>one, or possibly two votes, while private citizens
>will have one. No one county will manage their lands
>within the corridor. ALL lands in and around the
>corridor, roads included, will be managed by the CME.
>
> The counties will be forced to implement the
>policies set by the CME without additional funds for
>officers to patrol and enforce those policies. The
>counties will have no choice but to follow these
>policies and enforce them at a great expense.
>
> Of course ONF will go along with the policies set,
>because as Chair, they will have a major influence on
>what the CME does or does not want to do.
>
> I for one do not want my elected officials to give
>up what I elected them for, managing my county....do
>you?

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