LANSING, MI (MPRN)-- A federal appeal court says a couple who lives in the UP can challenge to a ban on motorboats on part a lake in the UP.
The ban applies on the part of the lake that falls within a national wilderness Area.
A couple that owns property on Crooked Lake in the Western UP says the US Forest Service has deprived them of state and federally protected rights. They say they should be allowed to motorboat the entirety of the lake -- which falls 95 percent within the Sylvania Wilderness Area – and not just on their small corner. Kayaks, canoes, rowboats, and small electric boats are allowed – but nothing with a gas motor.
The couple says being limited to 5 percent of the lake was not part of the deal when they bought the property.
On Friday the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dispatched the federal government’s technical objections, and said the property rights case will get a hearing.