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The prize jewel nature area of Minnesota becomes a playground for motorheads.
The state is trading public land access for capitalism. Do you remember; “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs”?
I worry that this pendulum will never swing back because of Polaris and Arctic Cat.
Once their footprint is on the ground, the damage is impossible to erase, aka wetlands and Spider Lake.
That Arrowhead Region is a national treasure and should be preserved intact.
If you can’t stop this with a Democratic governor, there is no hope for change on saving this land in the political arena.
Sad when the COs get no money for enforcement, (because they were telling people the true dirt on ATVs), but too many sheriffs, (political entities under a thin skin of being bipartisan), get money to buy more toys to patrol the roadside ditches because they are afraid to go out in the woods.
We share your frustration and sadness in this loss.
“I believe there is only one conflict, and that is between short-term and long-term thinking. In the long term, the economy and the environment are the same thing.
If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomic. That is a rule of nature.”
Mollie Beattie (1947- 1996, former director U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Larry Wannebo, 70-year resident of Manhattan Beach, Minnesota
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