Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64STATEWIDE SNOWMOBILE TRAILS PROGRAM (SSTP) REPORT Submitted by Matt Tetreault, Trails Administrator FY 2016 was a year that all of us snowmobilers would probably like to forget! Was El Nino to blame? It depends which sort of sci- ence you believe in I sup- pose. The good news is that the winter of 2016 is behind us and we can now look forward to the winter of 2017, which is supposed to be an El Nina year (El Ni- no’s better half I guess). All of the predictions seem to be partially right and par- tially wrong and ultimate- ly we might as well let the groundhog determine how much winter we are going to have. The good news out of all of this, the poor winter and low membership/reve- nue helped us all learn a lot about VAST and real- ize the need to make our policies more financially sound for the organiza- tion as a whole. The VAST committees and Board of Directors took a hard look at the trail policies and made some significant changes that will hopeful- ly maintain the fragile bal- ance that exists between the VAST bank account, clubs, landowners and the Statewide Snowmobile Trail System (SSTS). Speaking of balance, I want to take the opportunity to thank all of the volunteers who created a well main- tained and signed trail sys- tem, the great landowners who told the volunteers they could do it, and the membership for sticking with us through a challeng- ing season. Mother Nature owes us one in 2017! As we prepare for the win- ter of 2017 I will leave you with some depressing, but factual statistics that recap what happened on the Statewide Snowmobile Trail System (SSTS) during the 2016 season. 24