Tread Lightly, a local off-road group, and Seven Slots Posse will be hosting a Winter Jeep Day on December 12, 2020.
“We will be gifting Seven Slots Posse blankets to veterans at the Silver Bay Veterans home, said local Tread Lightly leader Scott Benolken. The following day the group will meet with three veterans, one special needs child and one retired law enforcement officer to deliver blankets.
This past summer and fall the local TL group conducted two cleanup sweeps of back roads, hauling over 1,000 pounds of garbage away. The civic-minded club is dedicated to responsible off-roading, said Benolken. Today TLOR has about 300 members, although not all of them live in Cook County.
What is Tread Lightly?
Tread Lightly is a national program. Tread stands for:
(T) Travel responsibly on roads and trails in permitted areas.
(R) Respect the rights of others including private property owners and all recreational trail users, campers and others to allow them to enjoy their recreational activities undisturbed.
(E) Educate yourself by obtaining travel maps and regulations from public agencies, planning for your trip, taking recreation skills classes, and knowing how to use and operate your safety equipment.
(A) Avoid sensitive areas such as meadows, lakeshores, wetlands, and streams.
Stay on designated routes.
(D) Do your part by modeling appropriate behavior, leaving the area better than you found it, properly disposing of waste, minimizing the use of fire, avoiding the spread of invasive species, and restoring degraded areas.
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