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2013 AV ATV CLUB Membership Drive
Come out and support and join the AV ATV Club on June 8th, 2013, 8:30 am at Jericho Motorsports, on Route 110, Berlin NH located across from Jericho Mountain State Park.
2013 Jericho ATV Festival Update
The 2013 Jericho ATV Festival is being planned and will be even better then last year. The Festival Permit will only cover the demo route and those that come just to race in the mud pit. So if your are riding, you must be registered in the State of New Hampshire. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at info@avatvclub.orgWe are currently working on the 2013 Jericho ATV Festival. If anyone would like to take part and help, please e-mail us at info@avatvclub.org.
Our Next Meeting
Our next club meeting will be May 29, 2013 at 7:00 pm and will be meeting at the Tri- County CAP Office, 30 Exchange St, Berlin NH in the Board Room.
A Jericho ATV Festival committee meeting will also be on May 29, 2013 at 6:00 PM
at the same location.
All are welcome to attend.
By Edith Tucker
Coos County Democrat
March 6, 2013
STEWARTSTOWN — The likelihood that completing a 1,000-mile-long interconnected ATV trail system in Coös County — now branded “Ride The Wilds” — in time for summer riding is now so great that an all-day Grand Opening will be held on June 15 at Coleman State Park.
“We chose that day because we figure that even the system’s remote trails at higher elevations will be dry enough to open up,” explained Harry Brown of Stewartstown, president of the North Country OHRV Coalition that is co-sponsoring the celebration with the state Bureau of Trails.
New Hampshire Grand recently assisted the Coalition by facilitating a strategic messaging session with all the participants interested in working together for the success of an interconnected trail system. Each of the 15 ATV clubs represented by the Coalition is eligible to have one board member.
Common signage, easily accessible maps, a logo and website — and possibly mobile apps — are all on the docket as the Coalition’s next steps.
Brown, who has been untiring in his efforts to connect the trail system so that ATV riders don’t have to trailer their vehicles from one location to another, compares “connectivity” to opening up a new factory. “It’s a new economic development driver that will help existing small businesses, like the Diamond Peaks Motel and Store on Route 26 in Colebrook, and spur new hospitality oriented enterprises to open up, from restaurants to rental and repair shops.
“It’s all coming together,” Brown explained in a Wednesday afternoon phone interview.
“Members of the OHRV Coalition believe that connecting up the trails will help bring riders from across the Northeast to the 7,500 acre Jericho Mountain State Park in Berlin as well as customers into downtown Colebrook and other North Country communities.”
Many people — club members, boards of selectmen, the Coös county commissioners and delegation, state Bureau of Trails and personnel in other state DRED divisions — have worked hard to make this happen, Brown explained. He happily concluded, “The Grand Opening on June 15 will indeed be a grand day!”
Coos County Democrat
March 6, 2013
STEWARTSTOWN — The likelihood that completing a 1,000-mile-long interconnected ATV trail system in Coös County — now branded “Ride The Wilds” — in time for summer riding is now so great that an all-day Grand Opening will be held on June 15 at Coleman State Park.
“We chose that day because we figure that even the system’s remote trails at higher elevations will be dry enough to open up,” explained Harry Brown of Stewartstown, president of the North Country OHRV Coalition that is co-sponsoring the celebration with the state Bureau of Trails.
New Hampshire Grand recently assisted the Coalition by facilitating a strategic messaging session with all the participants interested in working together for the success of an interconnected trail system. Each of the 15 ATV clubs represented by the Coalition is eligible to have one board member.
Common signage, easily accessible maps, a logo and website — and possibly mobile apps — are all on the docket as the Coalition’s next steps.
Brown, who has been untiring in his efforts to connect the trail system so that ATV riders don’t have to trailer their vehicles from one location to another, compares “connectivity” to opening up a new factory. “It’s a new economic development driver that will help existing small businesses, like the Diamond Peaks Motel and Store on Route 26 in Colebrook, and spur new hospitality oriented enterprises to open up, from restaurants to rental and repair shops.
“It’s all coming together,” Brown explained in a Wednesday afternoon phone interview.
“Members of the OHRV Coalition believe that connecting up the trails will help bring riders from across the Northeast to the 7,500 acre Jericho Mountain State Park in Berlin as well as customers into downtown Colebrook and other North Country communities.”
Many people — club members, boards of selectmen, the Coös county commissioners and delegation, state Bureau of Trails and personnel in other state DRED divisions — have worked hard to make this happen, Brown explained. He happily concluded, “The Grand Opening on June 15 will indeed be a grand day!”
Berlin park to open up for ATVs
The first step is a swap of conservation land in Bartlett and White Mountain National Forest land completely surrounded by the Berlin ATV park. The swap is between the Society for Protection of New Hampshire Forests and the U.S. Forest Service.
The society will then sell the Jericho tract to the state. The tract on the northern slope of Bartlett Mountain will become part of the White Mountain National Forest. The appraised value of the 96.6-acre parcel at Jericho was set at $48,300; the 76.5-acre Bartlett tract is valued at $39,000.
The Forest Society will pay the White Mountain Forest the difference in value of the two parcels - $9,300. And the state will pay the society the appraised value for the Jericho parcel.
"It absolutely makes sense for us to acquire it," Chris Gamache, head of the New Hampshire Trails Bureau, said Thursday.
Gamache said formal discussions started in 2009, and that the transfer is expected to be complete by late summer or early fall.
The acreage has a dirt road through it which could not be used as long as it was part of the White Mountain National Forest, he said. There is already a snowmobile corridor through the land.
"This land exchange is the result of consideration by an interdisciplinary team and collaboration with two of our local land management partners, the Forest Society and the state of New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development (DRED)," Tom Wagner, White Mountain National Forest supervisor, wrote in his March 11 letter of decision for the Bartlett Mountain Land Exchange.
He added: "We're extremely happy to be able to finish this land acquisition."
"The outcome is well worth it," Jack Savage, Forest Society spokesman said, noting the society bought the land in 2009 with the goal of holding it for eventual purchase by the WMNF.
