Snowmobile decision leaves a trail of confusion
Jan 01, 2022
3 minutes
BY PHIL BROWN
I’m not a big fan of snowmobiles. A good argument can be made that riding gas-powered sleds through the Forest Preserve violates Article 14, the section of the state constitution that says state lands in the Adirondacks and Catskills “shall be forever kept as wild forest lands.”
But the time to make that argument was 60 years ago when snowmobiles first appeared on the scene. Snowmobiling is now embedded in Adirondack culture and a big part of
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