Port puts brakes on dirtbike track

Without specific plans and having heard complaints from neighbors, Port of Whitman County commissioners last Thursday decided to deny the development of a dirtbike track at the Port of Wilma.

“It just is not something that is going to work, and it just is not compatible with the Port of Wilma,” said Port Commissioner Dan Boone.

Eric Christiansen of Lewiston and his firm, EC Enterprises, had asked the port to set up a 30-acre motocross and BMX track on the north side of Highway 193, across the road from Wilma.

Christiansen last month was granted a conditional use permit for the track from the W...