In less than a month and a half, the Badger-Two Medicine Area will be closed for good to all ATVs, motorcycles and snowmobiles. It’s amazing how a handful of environmentalists and outfitters can get the Forest Service to shut down an area that has been open for years. We the users need to contact our senators who helped shut down this area; Sens. Jon Tester, Max Baucus and Lewis and Clark forest officials. In the area surrounding, are the 133,000-acre Badger-Two Medicine, 1.4-million acre Glacier National Park, 1.5-million acre Bob Marshall Wilderness and 285,771-acre Great Bear Wilderness. Take the Badger-Two Medicine away, and there will be no more public lands in this area for ATV and motorcycle use. We have more than enough wilderness area. Please allow horses, hikers and motorists in this area. We can share!
Stephen R. Peters
Kalispell