No trails will cut through Ott Biological Preserve

Preservationists have protected Ott Biological Preserve in Calhoun County from local officials who wanted to put a biking and walking trail through it, reports the blog Change.org.

While in most cases, a biking and walking trail is widely embraced by nature lovers, a few local Ott lovers brought attention to the threat a paved (or even unpaved, but dramatically graded) trail would have posed to the preserve.

Excerpt:

After dozens of articles in the local paper, a number of public meetings, and a walk through the preserve with key decision-makers, biological experts, and citizens, the County Commissioners voted this month to build the trail on the outskirts of the preserve. The trail will be built on Consumers Energy’s right of way, private land, and along an old road bordering Consumers Energy’s right of way.

To find out more about why the trail as deemed objectionable, please read the rest of the story.

Source: Change.org