{"id":731,"date":"2016-05-11T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2016-05-11T06:00:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:00:52","slug":"lt-ohrv-use-picking-up-in-musquash-conservation-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"LT: OHRV Use Picking Up in Musquash Conservation Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Londonderry\u00a0Times <!-- IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements --> <!-- [if lt IE 9]>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/londonderrytimes.net\/wp-content\/themes\/ifeaturepro5\/inc\/js\/html5.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n\t<![endif]--> <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v3.1.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ --> <!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. --><script id=\"twitter-wjs\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js\" 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title=\"View all posts by Kaitlyn G Woods\" href=\"http:\/\/londonderrytimes.net\/author\/kwoods\/\" rel=\"author\">Kaitlyn G Woods<br \/>\n<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div id=\"single_page\" class=\"container-full-width\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div id=\"container\" class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" span8 content-sidebar-right\">\n<article id=\"post-32594\" class=\"post-32594 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-front-page\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\">The Conservation Commission is looking at an increase in OHRV (off-highway recreational vehicle) use in the Musquash Conservation area and potentially installing a gate to restrict the vehicles\u2019 access from Litchfield Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Commissioner Mike Speltz recently encountered riders in the power lines coming from Litchfield Road, near Continental Paving\u2019s property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHistorically, that has been an area of concern,\u201d member Deb Lievens said.<span id=\"more-32594\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Speltz informed the riders they need the permission of the property owner to ride through the power lines or any other property on an OHRV, and reported the activity to the Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey said they\u2019re from Hudson and use the power lines to get to get to where they ride,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Commission agreed that installing a gate at the area\u2019s entrance, to which the Commission and first responders would have a key, is probably the best solution to the problem, in addition to raising awareness for permitted uses in the Musquash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt was clear there\u2019s a lot of riding going on when we were conducting monitoring of the area,\u201d Commissioner Mike Byerly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt had really tapered off there for a while and now it\u2019s starting to pick back up again,\u201d Lievens said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Byerly said he installed signs in the area informing riders OHRV use in the Musquash is not permitted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">OHRV use in conservation areas creates sediment, according to Speltz. \u201cWhen it rains, the sediment moves and it creates rutting and erosion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOnce a channel forms, water can move the whole subsoil away. So not only do the plants under the tires suffer, but plants on either side of the tracks suffer because water rushes by them instead of soaking into the soil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">While OHRV use is restricted in all the Town\u2019s conservation areas, snowmobiling is permitted because the tracks pack down snow, rather than digging into soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Londonderry\u00a0Times OHRV Use Picking Up in Musquash Conservation Land May 5, 2016 by Kaitlyn G Woods The Conservation Commission is looking at an increase in OHRV (off-highway recreational vehicle) use in the Musquash Conservation area and potentially installing a gate to restrict the vehicles\u2019 access from Litchfield Road&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"From the Londonderry Times: \nOHRV Use Picking Up in Musquash Conservation Land","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}