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#167 The search shown: four registers, each named and checked

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A negative is worth printing only if the search is shown; here is the search, register by register. (1) The DNR system: the Indiana Snowmobile Trails Program Manual for 2025–2027, the program's own governing document, names the whole cooperative system — four trails (Buffalo Run, Heritage, Miami, Salamonie) and three cooperating clubs (the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition, the Hoagland Blizzard Blazers, the Elkhart County Snowmobile Club), with DNR Salamonie Lake staff running the fourth trail in-house. Walkerton and Lincoln Township appear nowhere in its routes, budgets, or club territories. (2) The state association: the Indiana Snowmobile Association (styled "Snowmobilers" in the DNR's public pages), the program's partner body, whose trail-status reporting covers the same four designated trails; no fifth, Walkerton-area trail is carried. (3) The county clubs: the one club the record gives St. Joseph County is the Michiana Trail Riders Coalition Inc., and its whole published charge is the Buffalo Run, whose map is #166's evidence. No Walkerton-seated snowmobile club was found in the association's or the DNR's listings. (4) The trail registers: the DNR's four published trail maps (Buffalo Run, Heritage, Miami, Salamonie), the snowmobile-ed course's Indiana trails summary ("provided through the cooperation of local snowmobile clubs, the Indiana Snowmobilers Association, and the Indiana Department of Natural Resources"), and Michigan's DNR county snowmobile map for Berrien County across the state line — checked so that a trail ending at the line from the north would be caught; Michigan's designated trails there (the LP 59 / 590 / 182 groupings around Niles, Galien, and Three Oaks) stay in Michigan. Four registers, four negatives for this town. Closure: DUG — the search is printed with its instruments, so the negative in #166 stands as a searched negative.

Sources: Indiana DNR, Snowmobile Trails Program Manual 2025–2027 (system, clubs, budgets); Indiana DNR, Snowmobiling in Indiana page and the four published DNR trail maps; Snowmobile-Ed (Indiana DNR delegated provider), Indiana Snowmobile Trails summary; Michigan DNR, Snowmobile Trails — Berrien County map (updated 18 Sept 2026).

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Source: #167 The search shown: four registers, each named and checked, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/snowmobile-trails/167-the-search-shown-four-registers-each-named-and/