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Originally Posted by ishoot308
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Dan:
A nice article but it doesn't relate to the Castle land which was purchased with funds raised by Donations form the general PUBLIC under clear pretense that the land would be OPEN for historical uses. Further, there was no reference to vandalism on the Castle land in the article. The land in the article is PRIVATE and the landowners closed it as a result of one idiot who vandalized their property. While it is a private landowner's right to do so, it is a shame one bad apple can't be stopped for his flagrant disregard of private property. Interestingly, it sounds like most of his destruction occurred during non-winter months so I'm again not sure how this ties into the snowmobile crowd.
What happened with the LRCT is they used the actions of one vandal on nearby property to close a large portion of the snowmobile trails in order to meet their true desire of eliminating snowmobiling. If this weren't the case why wouldn't they try opening one or two additional trails one winter to see how things go? The answer is simple most of these folks hate snowmobiles and increasing motorized access to "their" land goes against what they believe is the best use of the property.