OHV travel management plan unveiled today

Written by Black Hills Pioneer

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Kevin Norton

BLACK HILLS -- Off-Highway Vehicle riders, you won't have to wait long.

Black Hills National Forest Supervisor Craig Bobzien will announce the motorized travel plan at 6 p.m. Wednesday evening in Rapid City at the Mount Rushmore Room of the Ramkota Hotel at 6 p.m.

The decision is more than four years in the making and will result in the first system of designated trails in the Black Hills for motor vehicle use. Trails that are not designated will be made off limits to motor vehicles.

Bobzien said that the plan has received enormous feedback since its inception in 2004.

All together, 4,000 comments have been recorded and are being used to affect the decision, Bobzien said. “I don't know of any other plan that has had this kind of a response in the Black Hills.”

“The last six years have been very intense,” said Eric Hunt, president of the South Dakota Off-Highway Vehicle coalition. “People are anxious to see what it looks like.”

Source: http://www.bhpioneer.com/articles/2010/03/24/breaking_news/doc4baa49f6339a8756166886.txt

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