OHV COUNCIL I have not heard anything recently in regard to the OHV Council. My understanding is that I will be notified when there is another meeting.

NEED LOSS OF LAND Mike Ketterhagen has not received any info from anyone on land that may have been lost for trailriding with a bit of background etc. Please contact Mike with this info so he can compile for reference as we go along.

LAKE STATES RESOURCE ALLIANCE (LSRA) I receive their newsletter. John Schnorr is on the board representing W4WDA. There will be no Banquet this year. However there are raffle tickets they are selling and they would like our help. You can contact John for these tickets that you can proceed and sell or just buy.

CHEQUAMEGON-NICOLET NATIONAL FOREST PLANNING The Final Plan is pretty much ready and will be distributed this Spring. If you have been involved you should already have been notified with your desires as to what format you wish to receive this plan in.

BLACK RIVER FALLS/JACKSON COUNTY The Black River State Forest is the next to be reviewed by the state on their "25 year plan" and we need to keep a watch for that. I asked about this at the State Trails Advisory Council meeting and it isn’t happening as of then. Is there anyone that can keep an eye on this?

We have opportunity up there on both a county and state level if there are folks ready to work on this. Let me know of interest out there and let's see what we can put together.

COUNTY TEN YEAR PLANS AGAIN AGAIN I am informing you that the County ten year plans are starting up soon if not already. Contact your county and find out when your county’s plan will be starting. You can also check their website at for what is coming up or send them an e-mail through their website. I know the folks in Oneida county are working with their county—how about some of the rest of you?

MEMBERSHIP I am glad to see Mike Kasten is proceeding to get a letter out to non-members who participated in the rally last year. Hopefully by the time you read this Mike will have the 2003 Rally participant list in his hands to work from.

VEHICLE PATROL PROGRAM Jason Feucht has taken this over with some real vigor—check out his report!!

LOBBYIST I was asked to check on this at the last meeting. I have two possibilities in mind. However, the one that I thought might be the most effective, is going through a reconstruction right now and wanted to let that happen and then see about the possibility, cost, etc. before checking out the other possibility. Do you have any ideas on this?

BLUE RIBBON COALITION I wish to congratulate Andrea Lyman in being the first woman to graduate from Del Albright’s Recreational Leadership Training Course (FLTC)! If time, maybe Andrea can tell us a bit about the course. Also you can go to to find out more about the course.

GET INVOLVED Everyone seriously think of taking on one project and then follow it through. We need more people to get involved in order to even keep what we have. There are many of us ready and able to help you out, we just can’t be also working on all these projects. I know there are now some regional Vice Presidents that are jumping in and working in their areas and that is GREAT. However there are many other projects that need to be done.