Asking For Your Support!!!!!

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DELEGATES FROM THE REVELSTOKE SNOWMOBILE CLUB AND THE SNOWMOBILE REVELSTOKE SOCIETY ATTENDED THE 43RD INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE CONGRESS RECENTLY HELD IN CALGARY, AB.

PURPOSE OF ATTENDING THIS CONGRESS WAS TO SOLICIT HELP FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE COMMUNITY IN OUR EFFORTS TO KEEP SNOWMOBILE AREAS OPEN AROUND REVELSTOKE. THIS HELP WAS FORTHCOMING.

More Snowmobile Closures?

The Snowmobile Revelstoke Society and the Revelstoke Snowmobile Club have unofficially been informed of the complete closure of Caribou Basin and the partial closure of Keystone / Standard Basin.

A letter to Premier Christy Clark (B./C.`s Premier) has been drafted outlining the concerns of snowmobilers in regards to these closures.

To sign a copy of the letter
To read a copy of the presentation to the International Snowmobile Congress Attendees

Please take a minute to read the RSC`s and SRS`s presentation to fully understand the issues.
Please send your signed letter to the RSC Box 1849 Revelstoke, B.C. V0E 2S0.
We need copies of your signed letters. We will forward your letters on. Thanks.

The first map shows the closures put in effect by Gov. since 2000.
The second map shows the additional closures that we haven`t been officially notified of but are now posted on Gov. websites.

You can also now scan and e-mail your signed letter to sledrev@telus.net

 

[~Rowdy~]

I can't click!

 

[ferniesnow]

Kathy, the clickies aren't working.

 

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Fixed. :d

 

[~Rowdy~]

printed, signed, mailed...although Canada Post is on strike. Hope you get it soon!

 

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Thanks Rowdy!!!
We have nothing but time now and nothing else left to loose.

Here is something else that might just make you print, sign and mail your letter. THESE AREAS REMAIN OPEN TO HELI-SKIING.

 

[Depsnolvr]

Signed and delivered at the ISC. Good Luck Guys

Awesome that those folks from Idaho offered to help ! Hope something good can come from it

 

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Thanks Curtis, you were the 1st to sign.
We collected over 200 letters at the ISC from snowmobilers supporting us from all over the world.

 

[ferniesnow]

Kathy, the FSA is holding our year end wind-up next weekend. I will take 50 copies and distribute them to our members.

I will also try to get the links put on our web-site so that peeps can download the letter from there.

Thanks for your efforts and good luck, fs

PS mine is in the mail

 

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In the mail this AM Kathy.

 

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Thanks, we met a lot of snowmobilers last wk. :d
Lots of offers were made to have this posted on their websites. What so many of the Americans said was "This is Yellowstone all over".

This how I saw it. Since 2004 we started working with MoE on the Mtn. Caribou Implementation Plan. We produce a SMA (Stewardship Management Agreement), that was used as a platelet for all clubs with Caribou closure areas and those who now would have them in the prov. We also produced a mtn. caribou reporting form to be used by clubs. At this time we also negotiated riding areas in the Revelstoke area that had mtn. caribou closure areas. We defined each others responsibilities to work together to keep these areas open to snowmobiling. This was a 4 yr. process.

In 2006 we woke up one day and there were new additional elevation closures in effect from 1300-2100 metres. Closures to snowmobilers only. As far as we know there are not closures of this type anywhere in the prov.

In 2008 we finially sign our SMA with Gov. we were thanked and told not to expect any further snowmobiling closures in the Revelstoke area.
A yr and a half later ILMB (Intregated Land Management Bureau) wants a meeting, we meet Mr. Peel. He tells us that Caribou Basin and Standard Basin will be closed. He informs us our deal was with MoE he is ILMB "no deal".
We went back to the table, we tried to negotiate new boundaries for Standard Basin and asked for a member permit system for Caribou Basin. We also asked that if these areas were to be closed that we be compensated with other snowmobiling opportunities in areas that did not have carbiou issues.

In Feb. we heard this closure letter was on a ministers desk, ready to be signed. We travelled to Victoria and met with ministers. We left that meeting assured that they would look into it and that we would continue working together.

We asked for the City of Revelstoke`s support, we attended a city coucil meeting 4 wks. ago. The City asked Darcy Peel ILMB to attend.
We were not allowed to comment only ask questions during Mr. Peel`s presentation. It was here that we heard the closures had gone through. The letter was signed 2 wks. prior, done deal. No compensation. No notifcation from Gov. and the new closure maps are posted on the Gov.`s sites.

A recent letter to one of the ministers we met with in Feb. at the Parliament Buildings tell us
"Due to the recent realignment of government, this topic now falls under the purview of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations" and for us to contact them.

Here are the recent articles in our local paper.

http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/revelstoketimesreview/news/117196743.html

http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/revelstoketimesreview/news/122139054.html

http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/revelstoketimesreview/news/122515618.html

Feel the pain? Thanks for listening.

 

[EMANAARON]

I will get a few emailed in.

 

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Thanks you can scan and e-mail your signed letters to sledrev@telus.net now.

 

[JaySimon]

Signed, scanned, and sent.

 

[kidder17]

Signed, Scanned, and sent as well.

 

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[NosRX1]

printed, signed, scanned and emailed!

 

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Hope that picture isn't hanging in the premiers office.

 

[NosRX1]

2 more sent on behalf of co-workers

 

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That was the cover page of the presentation Mr. Peel from ILMB gave us when he told us the closures were going ahead, that our deal was with MoE and he was ILMB, no deal. Said it was the only way he could make other gov. depts. laugh when it came to snowmobilers and mtn. caribou. We told him it`s wasn`t funny at all.