Comments on: Opposition to HB 267: Snow Machine Use, Dalton Highway Corridor

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:50:34 +0000

Michelle, we share the same fondness for the land and disdain for poor stewardship of it. I only wish to encourage people to treat it as our home and with consideration. Thanks for expressing like-mindedness.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:15:18 +0000

Thank you Patrick for your passionate yet collected opposition to HB 267. I have spent the last 12 years on the Dalton highway as a summer and winter tour guide and I have taken numerous single day and multi-day hikes off of the road. I am always saddened and appalled at the amount of trash that I find when I hike far off the Dalton into the Brooks Mountain Range, not to mention the amount of trash that is dropped at the last outhouse on the dalton as you have displayed so well!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:10:47 +0000

Eli,
There is an “unbelievable” aspect to the pictures, especially the trash one. It’s hard to believe grown adults would do that.

By: Eli Mitchell

Eli Mitchell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:28:37 +0000

I definitely agree with you on what you said about being good stewards of the earth. I unfortunately have not been up the Dalton, but I’ve seen (your) photos of the amazing landscapes up there. From the damage I’ve seen snowmachines give other places, I can’t imagine what the North Slope would look like if this Bill was passed. I, too, enjoy snowmachining, but I think it would be best to leave the North untainted by them, and continue to use snowmachines elsewhere. Those photos are somewhat humorous, yet sad to see that people don’t think twice when they do stuff like this.