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everready (Anonymous) says…

Just to clarify. Yes BLM does handle the fires on federal lands. However the Sheriff is ultimately responsible for all wildfires on state and private lands within a county. The Sheriff and his fire crews work together with BLM and the local districts. Craig Fire is responsible for fire inside of their district unless it gets to large for them to handle then it goes back to the Sheriff.

everready (Anonymous) says…

People will always have a difference of opinion. New laws are created every day. Some good, some bad. But yet things generally work out. I noticed in Sumarjn stories they both refer to underage, unlicensed and illegal operation of ATV's. This is not a fair comparison. This will happen no matter if there are laws or not. If you look at it open minded the council could actually be putting some teeth into the illegal operation of ATV's that is occurring now. Maybe people will think twice about operating an ATV carelessly or illegally if they face upwards of a $1000.00 fine and loosing their ATV. If you had attended the meetings and listened you would have heard drivers would need to be licensed, insured, over 18 and the ATV's registered. Granted there all always a few bad apples. But that even occurrs in motor vehicles. Look at the number of arrests for dui, dur, dus in this town. All these were driving motor vehicles.

And to David, your study by the Dr. does not indicate how many of these people hurt on ATV's were riding offroad compared to other roads. More ATV accidents happen offroad than on roadways. I know of 2 fatal accidents involving ATV's on county roads in Moffat County in the past 10 years. 1 involved alcohol. The other was a prior medical condition. The numbers in the report are a little misleading also in the fact it includes other offroad vehicles (snowmobiles, dirt bikes etc). So before making your decisions lets let the council come up with a full draft and work from there.

everready (Anonymous) says…

pbcint. MC SAR and Craig Fire played a vital role in this awful accident. What you may not know is Moffat was never notified until Routt had located the plane. At that point it was turned over to Moffat but Routt kept giving info out.