Taken from the Redwater Review
With the last of the red tape cut, volunteers with Smoky Lake Trail Twisters Snowmobile Club are building a winter recreation trail on undeveloped road allowances in Smoky Lake County. It is for use by people on snowmobiles, crosscountry skis and snow shoes.
Club president Verne Billey said contractors are lined up and ready to go. he is confident the trails can be completed within the time constraints of the funding the Trail Twisters received for the trail system.
"It'll happen," he said Jan. 21 after county council approved a new recreational roadway license policy and then the recreational roadway license agreement with the Trail Twisters.
In the summer of 2009 the Trail Twisters received a $140,000 grant for trail construction. The funds have to be expended by mid March 2010.
Club members designed a route and formally presented to to council Sept. 17 It almost entirely follows undeveloped county road allowances from Hanmore Lake north to Twp 620, then east to the south boundary of the Kikino Metis settlement, linking the Mons Lake, Bonnie Lake and Whitefish Lake areas to the trail and then into the Iron Horse Trail.
The grant for the trail system was received throught the National Trail Coalition (NTC), which is made up of the non profit organizations such as the Canadian Trails Federation, Canadain Council of Snowmobile Organizations and the Canadian Off-Highway Vehicle Distributors Council as well as their provincial affiliates.
The NTC partnered with the Canadian Economic Action Plan, with each organization putting in half of the grant funds.
Smoky Lake County has used roadway licensing agreements for many years but only for allowing producers to grase livestock on undeveloped road allowances. A new agreement was written up for recreational use of the road allowances.
With the last of the red tape cut, volunteers with Smoky Lake Trail Twisters Snowmobile Club are building a winter recreation trail on undeveloped road allowances in Smoky Lake County. It is for use by people on snowmobiles, crosscountry skis and snow shoes.
Club president Verne Billey said contractors are lined up and ready to go. he is confident the trails can be completed within the time constraints of the funding the Trail Twisters received for the trail system.
"It'll happen," he said Jan. 21 after county council approved a new recreational roadway license policy and then the recreational roadway license agreement with the Trail Twisters.
In the summer of 2009 the Trail Twisters received a $140,000 grant for trail construction. The funds have to be expended by mid March 2010.
Club members designed a route and formally presented to to council Sept. 17 It almost entirely follows undeveloped county road allowances from Hanmore Lake north to Twp 620, then east to the south boundary of the Kikino Metis settlement, linking the Mons Lake, Bonnie Lake and Whitefish Lake areas to the trail and then into the Iron Horse Trail.
The grant for the trail system was received throught the National Trail Coalition (NTC), which is made up of the non profit organizations such as the Canadian Trails Federation, Canadain Council of Snowmobile Organizations and the Canadian Off-Highway Vehicle Distributors Council as well as their provincial affiliates.
The NTC partnered with the Canadian Economic Action Plan, with each organization putting in half of the grant funds.
Smoky Lake County has used roadway licensing agreements for many years but only for allowing producers to grase livestock on undeveloped road allowances. A new agreement was written up for recreational use of the road allowances.
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