Posted: 4/13/2010 5:22:42 PM EDT
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I saw the Ottawa Times on Sunday, and the wife told me about the News Trib. today. Sounds like a bunch of shit to us.
Sorry I dont mean to post this and run but I have my daughter getting ready for bed. If I get free time in a little bit I will try to get the news paper links up. |
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Yeah, it's a bunch of shit alright. Smear campaign, like I said in the article. We're waiting to see what the DNR is up to. It's a crock, though. This the same kind of smear campaign that forces gun ranges out of business or costs them thousands to raise berms and put in those ugly baffles. Its like shooting through a tunnel with those baffles and just ruins the look of the range. |
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It didn't make any sense, IF the range is unsafe and rounds are going where they should not I'd think they would have closed the range. Instead they close some areas/paths that people use to make them mad so as to garner emotional support and get the range closed.
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It didn't make any sense, IF the range is unsafe and rounds are going where they should not I'd think they would have closed the range. Instead they close some areas/paths that people use to make them mad so as to garner emotional support and get the range closed. Exactly...and when you consider the motivations, it makes PERFECT sense. |
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From Monday, April 12 News Tribune
CYCLISTS QUESTION REASON FOR CANAL TOWPATH CLOSURE by Allison Ryan Local cyclists have raised questions about the state's response to possible stray gunfire on the Illinois and Michigan Canal Towpath near Buffalo Rock State Park. Mark McConnaughhay, Buffalo Rock State Park site superintendent, said Illinois Department of Natural Resources closed the Effigy Tumuli area of Buffalo Rock and a section of the canal trail on April 2. The newly-closed trail section extends from the Buffalo Rock access to the trail, east to campsite D. The trail already was closed for repairs from campsite D west, and is open to visitors about two miles east of Utica. Conservation police have reports on file from towpath travelers who said they experienced near-misses with stray bullets on the trail south of Buffalo Range Shooting Park. "I've ridden by there and heard the rat-tat-tat-tat of machine guns before, so the topic doesn't surprise me," said Mark Barron of Spring Valley. "I think it's a shame that it's closing. I think, logically, someone should be able to determine if a shot could mathematically reach the trail and therefore put in procedures so that it doesn't do that," he said. "Everyone wants to be safe. No one wants to shoot somebody and no one wants to get shot. There should be some common ground that everyone can agree upon and forget the lawyers," Barron said. Dan Eiten, president of Illinois Vally Cycling Association, siad the closure won't have much impact on cyclists, who have not been able to use an adjacent area of the towpath since 2007 due to washouts. Illinois Department of Natural Resources has made repairs this spring to one of three washouts between Utica and Buffalo Rock State Park. Eiten noted the county has made no effort to close Dee Bennet Road, also known as County Highway 34 and North 27th Road, which lies between the towpath and Buffalo Rock. An employee of LaSalle County Highway Department confirmed that road remains open. "That's pretty remarkable, that they would have closed the canal, the park and leave Dee Bennet Road open," Eiten said. "As a short-term strategy, they closed the public parks rather than the shooting range." The owner for the gun range could not be reached Monday morning, but a person at the range confirmed Article ends there and is not continued elsewhere in the paper that I can find. |
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Last year we rode our bikes on the tow path, Utica startin point going East, Yeah there is a washout ovver a creek . We wallked a cross the first washout, without bikes. never traveled anymore eastward.
No idea if there was any follow up on the news paper articles. Sorry. |