New snowmobile trail rules adopted for Forest Preserve

By MIKE LYNCH, Enterprise Outdoors, link to original post
The state Adirondack Park Agency approved new guidelines for snowmobile trails Friday, Nov. 13, 2009.
The rules are intended to improve the safety of snowmobilers while lessening the environmental impact on the Forest Preserve during the process of constructing, maintaining and locating trails.
The guidelines were approved 10-1. Commissioner [...]

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Snowmobiling: Online interactive map blazes new trail

By LISA KAPPS, UticeOD.com, link to original post
Linda Rockwood is mapping out a whole new way to enjoy snowmobiling. Rockwood, owner of Mohawk Valley GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in Herkimer, has launched the New York State Snowmobile Trails Interactive Map and Trip Planner.
The interactive Web site at www.nysnowmobilewebmap.com not only shows maps of the trails, [...]

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Ring In Winter In The Great Western Catskills

Early Bird Deals and Last Seasons Pricing
Winter is set to rock this year with predictions of El Nino influences bringing over 100 inches of precipitation to the region. For many in the downstate New York area, there’s no better place to enjoy winter weekends than close to home in the Great Western Catskills of Delaware [...]

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Newly proposed guidelines for locating, constructing and maintaining snowmobile trails on state Forest Preserve lands

by MIKE LYNCH, Enterprise Outdoors, link to original post
Newly proposed guidelines for locating, constructing and maintaining snowmobile trails on state Forest Preserve lands are now open for public comment.
Released to the public Friday (Sept 4, 2009) afternoon by the state Adirondack Park Agency, the proposed guidelines build off of the 2006 Snowmobile Plan for the [...]

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Snowmobilers Supports Trails

editorial by Gary Broderick, Vice President, NYS Snowmobile Association, Sanborn
TimesUnion.com, link to original post
In reference to Eric Schult’s July 17 letter, let me correct a couple of misconceptions. We as snowmobilers pay not only registration fees to the state Department of Motor Vehicles, but also voluntarily pay a trail fund fee. A portion of that [...]

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New DEC regulations adopted and effective May 13, 2009

On May 13, 2009 the DEC finally adopted the proposed amendments to the lands and forest regulations that had first been proposed in May of 2008.
These new rules apply to both the forest preserve (a/k/a the Adirondack Park) and all state lands under DEC control outside of the forest preserve, a/k/a unique areas, state forests, [...]

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Grant Awarded to Complete 2 miles at South End of Genesee Valley Greenway

By John Loyd, Olean Times Herald, link to original, full article
Cuba NY residents may soon have another way to stay healthy thanks to a $589,000 grant the village received that will go toward efforts on the “Cuba’s Landmark Connections to the Genesee Valley Greenway” project.
Village of Cuba board member and Cuba Friends of Architecture President [...]

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Snowmobiles to be allowed on canal land statewide

Click here for Alan Wechsler’s article about snowmobiles on canal land.

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Snowmobile Driver Rides DEC

By BRIAN NEARING, The Times Union, link to original article
Jim McCulley may have opened a very big can of worms. It’s been six years since McCulley deliberately got a ticket for riding his snowmobile on a historic Adirondack road; he was hoping to prove that the state didn’t pass legal muster when it closed the [...]

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Trailing the snow…

Click here to take a poetic and pictorial snowmobile ride through the snow in Oswego County with Kelly.

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