U.P. USFS MEETING: GIBDN TRAIL & LETTERS NEEDED

Please attend if at all possible!!
 
USFS Public Meeting 
Tuesday April 16th, 2019, 6pm 
Mathias Township Community Building 
Co Hwy 103 
Trenary, MI 49891
 
To further discuss management of the Bay de Noc-Grand Island trail where a bike and horse time-sharing agreement is being considered (horses use the trail one day, bikes the next). If you sent a letter with our first request and received a letter back from the USFS, it stated a proposal has not been issued to change the management of this trail. At this time, bikes are allowed on the trail but the trail is not managed for bikes. 
 
A proposal has now been issued by Karen Bahrman, <kbahrman@gmail.com>, “We are proposing that the GIBDN trail be managed for horses and hikers only in the non-winter months, and that it be posted closed to bikers.”
 
Please send letters in support of this proposal to pholeva@fs.fed.us, we need many letters and we need large attendance at the meeting. Please share with equestrians across the state. Thank you for your help in protecting equestrian trails! 
 
For the whole story, check out the petition here, http://chng.it/ZLHYszvSmF