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ISSA Leaders Participate in Second Annual
ACSA Land Summit in San Francisco
A handful of officials from the ISSA represented Iowa interests in
public land access at the American Council of Snowmobile Associations’
(ACSA) second annual Land Summit held in early December in San
Francisco.
Past ISSA Presidents Dave Carmichael and Jerry Kramer, who
serves as chair of ACSA’s Midwest Chapter, joined ISSA President Terry
Durby and Vice-President Merv Hoermann for the four-day meeting on
the West Coast.
“It was well worth the trip,” reported Durby. “There were several
great speakers with an abundance of vital information and statistics.”
This latest event was planned during the 2005 International Snowmobile
Congress last June and follows the summit’s successful debut in
December of 2004, which focused on Wilderness designation and its
impact recreationally and economically.
Speakers this time included Emilyn Sheffield from Chico State
University in California and Joel Holtrop, deputy chief of the National
Forest System. They addressed topics ranging from past, present and
future demographics to the changing role of the forestry service.
“The reality is in a few years, we are going to have two times the
number of people<\#209>and no additional resources: no new water
sources, no new land masses and probably no additional land being
designated ‘public lands’,” reads ACSA’s online assessment of the
summit.
"That means twice the people on the same trails and recreational
lands that we currently have. That probably means more than twice the
number of conflicts. That means more people fighting to recreate on less
trails and lands.”
Next up for ISSA officials on the national level is the ACSA D.C.-Fly-
In to Washington, D.C. April 1-4. This extended weekend conference will
afford participants the opportunity to listen to influential speakers on
public land access and meet with their respective legislators on Capitol
Hill.
ACSA Land Summit in San Francisco
A handful of officials from the ISSA represented Iowa interests in
public land access at the American Council of Snowmobile Associations’
(ACSA) second annual Land Summit held in early December in San
Francisco.
Past ISSA Presidents Dave Carmichael and Jerry Kramer, who
serves as chair of ACSA’s Midwest Chapter, joined ISSA President Terry
Durby and Vice-President Merv Hoermann for the four-day meeting on
the West Coast.
“It was well worth the trip,” reported Durby. “There were several
great speakers with an abundance of vital information and statistics.”
This latest event was planned during the 2005 International Snowmobile
Congress last June and follows the summit’s successful debut in
December of 2004, which focused on Wilderness designation and its
impact recreationally and economically.
Speakers this time included Emilyn Sheffield from Chico State
University in California and Joel Holtrop, deputy chief of the National
Forest System. They addressed topics ranging from past, present and
future demographics to the changing role of the forestry service.
“The reality is in a few years, we are going to have two times the
number of people<\#209>and no additional resources: no new water
sources, no new land masses and probably no additional land being
designated ‘public lands’,” reads ACSA’s online assessment of the
summit.
"That means twice the people on the same trails and recreational
lands that we currently have. That probably means more than twice the
number of conflicts. That means more people fighting to recreate on less
trails and lands.”
Next up for ISSA officials on the national level is the ACSA D.C.-Fly-
In to Washington, D.C. April 1-4. This extended weekend conference will
afford participants the opportunity to listen to influential speakers on
public land access and meet with their respective legislators on Capitol
Hill.