The application and public notice of a proposed Fat Truck tour operation on state trails in Pleasant Valley and Two Rivers in late August prompted a backlash in that community.

Zachery Holmes, owner of Arctic Fat Truck Tours LLC, submitted a land use permit with the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to operate two 86,000-pound Fat Trucks on the state-owned trails year-round as part of a commercial tour.

The proposal, still pending DNR review, prompted a broad cross-section of locals and trail users to launch a grassroots campaign opposing the tours.

It also prompted a Fairbanks North Star Borough assemblymember and a member of the borough Trails Advisory Committee to start looking at how the borough might address similar concerns on borough-owned trails.

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