The Boondocks blog, No. 32 for the week starting July 2, 2007.
ATV Park Planned for Adirondacks
Energy looks at high energy prices and our future.
Enviroman looks at man and the environment.
Hayseeds looks at politics and life in our nation.
Individual looks at myself and how I'm changing
Outblog is all about my outdoor experiences.
Transit looks at the changing ways we get around.
Truck gives you stories and trips in my Ford Ranger.
For those machines some of our friends in the environmentalist community love to hate, may finally get a good place to ride, under a proposed ATV park in the Adirondacks.
A patch of Adirondack forest could reverberate with the sound of engines under a plan to create a 700-acre park for all-terrain vehicles, which would be the first such facility in the six-million-acre state park.
The proposal for land off Route 28 is drawing questions from the Adirondack Park Agency, criticism from environmentalists and support from ATV riders who have long complained that the state takes registration fees while barring the vehicles from public land in the Adirondacks.
A proposal by Queensbury Falls residents Richard and Karen Mohring for a Glen Creek Road site filed in April with the park agency calls for about 30 miles of backcountry ATV trails, along with six tracks, including a drag strip, and more than 150 camping sites, six rental cabins and four single-family homes.
Guess whose already complaining? Could it be our good friend Peter Bauer and company at Residents to Protect the Blue Line District? Blah... Blah.. Blah...
"This type of outdoor motor sports facility is an intensive and abusive activity that is not suitable for this land or for the Adirondack Park," said committee Executive Director Peter Bauer. "The soils are easily eroded, the property contains many steep slopes and extensive wetlands, borders Forest Preserve, necessitates the crossing of Glen Creek Road, and the noted trout stream Mill Creek/Beaver Brook meanders through the property."
Who needs entertainment when we have Peter Bauer to complain for us? The funny thing is that knowing how things go in the Blue Line District, he will probably get his way.
