Cooke City-Gone

[TRS]

We need your help. E-mail help. They are trying to close Cooke City and the Beartooths again. Go to www.snowest.com and read the article and the e-mail contacts are there. There is a meeting in Cooke City on 5/20 at 10:30 am. If you can be there please bring your trailer. They have no idea what 150 rigs in town would look like. They haven't plowed the road from Pilot to Cooke yet. I need help to get the link here.

 

[tudizzle]

I thought the point was to plow the road to allow a more direct route into Cooke for sledders....with a proposed trail to run along side of the existing roadway?


How does this close down Cooke to sledding?

 

[Arctic Thunder]

I thought the point was to plow the road to allow a more direct route into Cooke for sledders....with a proposed trail to run along side of the existing roadway?


How does this close down Cooke to sledding?

Yea, I am a little confused also.

TRS do you have a link? www.snowest.com won't do it.

Thunder

 

[Scott]

I'm not sure where you are from, but check out this thread by a CC resident.

http://www.snowestonline.com/forum/showthread.php?t=269151

 

[TRS]

If they plow the road it eliminates the snowmobile trail. Because of the Canadian Lynx issue, the National Forest has a no net gain for snowmobile trails. To get a trail and parking area in Cooke to replace the Pilot parking area someone would need to pay for the EIS study. It is at least a 7 year process. You cannot legally snowmobile down a plowed road. So how do you get to the trail system if you can find a place to park in Cooke? We have been told that if you park on the road you will be ticketed.
If the road is plowed the Wyoming trail system will be gone. No funding.
We are also hearing that if the road is plowed that the Shoshone National Forest will pull the Permit that allows the trail system.
My personal thoughts are that this will open the door to make this world class riding area WILDERNESS .If the trail system is gone,it will be much easier. We have beaten the wilderness proposals for this area before. But I think they are coming at us from a different angle.
The Shoshone Forest has started their Forest Revision Plan. Past plans(maps) and proposals of the N.F. have shown most of our riding areas added to the wilderness. We need to stop this plowing.

 

[TRS]

When you get to www.snowest.com scroll down to the article.

 

[TRS]

Scott
LSB is a proponent of plowing the road. I have been in many meetings and conversations with administrative people about our Wyoming trail system. What I have printed I have been told. LSB needs to get his facts correct.

 

[woodzy]

Sounds like you are scared to lose your funding for people who ride 8 miles of groomed and have to pay a trail permit just to do that, even though they don't really ride in Wy. Has always been a cheap way for WY to get extra funding off the backs of people packing into Cooke City. If a trail is built alongside the highway they will still be required to pay for a permit to use that portion, but I guess you would rather see an inconvenience to those who come to the town with cash in hand to buy one of the WY permits just to get to the town.

So explain how if they add the same length trail next to the highway that they won't allow it? No net gain. Also parking is being worked on by those in Cooke City for areas to park in town off the highway, aleviating the parking on the highway point you are worried about.

Wilderness arguement is weak at best, and you stated it clear as your thoughts, please state some facts.

IC you have been at many meetings about the WY trail system, did you go to any of the meetings about Cooke City as a whole?

 

[Scott]

Let's herd the discussion into one thread.

http://www.snowestonline.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2726955#post2726955