ACCESS AT POE

For the past seven years or so several Snowmobile Clubs in the center of the Commonwealth, as well as PSSA, had been working on obtaining a legal crossing of Penn's Creek and the Poe Paddy area. If a crossing of Penn's Creek could be obtained it would provide a necessary " link" to allow legal snowmobiling from Huntingdon /Altoona area to the Williamsport Area, effectively connecting three separate forest districts, namely Rothrock, Bald Eagle, Tiadaghton.

Back in September 1998 word was received the bridge and would be approved by DCNR and the T 21 funds would be used to fund the project, with a possible completion date of 1999. That never happened, and was reported that the project had been stopped by opposition of the trout unlimited and other environmental community organizations.

The latest action under consideration by DCNR, at the request of the Bald Eagle district forester, is to have the Poe Paddy Area of Penn's Creek changed to a " wild area". A wild area in Pennsylvania means wilderness area, which would effectively stop any future development of a legal crossing of Penn's Creek , and may also exclude snowmobiling on current joint use roads that are now legal to ride.

What can snowmobilers do? Write those letters! Send e-mails!

Address your letters to:
DCNR Secretary John Oliver
Rachel Carson State Office Building
P. O. Box 8767
Harrisburg, PA 17105-8767