Getting your player ready...
The Forest Service’s travel management plan, finalized in May, is now in its educational stage in which trail users must learn the roads and trails that are open, which are closed, and in what areas various uses are permitted. And there have been major changes for snowmobilers.
Forest Service Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams decided it wouldn’t be ideal to begin implementing the rules associated with the plan until May 2012 for the summer portion and sometime next fall for snow-related uses (it was scheduled for implementation starting Aug. 25). That means snowmobilers have about a year to learn the maps and begin altering their favorite routes if they conflict with the decision.
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