Protecting quiet places & Minnesota's trails & waterways since 1996
MRR Milestones
2006 MRR Celebrates 10 Years Protecting Quiet Places
2006 Citizen Toolkit for the Quiet Majority: Reforming Public Funding for Motorized Recreation released
2005 Restored winter quiet by supporting private property owners in withdrawing their easements to close an unwanted snowmobile trail in City of Hermantown
2005 Protected winter quiet by preventing purchase of permanent easements on private property for crosstown state snowmobile trail through Duluth and neighboring communities
2004 Protected the nation’s longest bikeway, The Mesabi Trail from development of an adjacent dirt-bike motorcycle track
2004 Prevented ATV use prevented on the 165 mile North Shore State Trail protecting Lake Superior’s coastline
2004 One Quiet Lake campaign launched
2004 Duluth City Council passes ordinance making all public land in the city ATV-free, protecting Duluth’s parks, streams and shoreline
2004 Minnesota State Auditor concludes investigation of Rep. Dave Dill’s Voyageurs Trail Society, Inc. snowmobile club exposing misuse of public trail funds and triggering a “Whistle Blower Lawsuit”
2003 Office of the Legislative Auditor’s Program Evaluation Report: State Funded Trails for Motorized Recreation requested by MRR members released
2001 Challenged DNR “Off-Highway System Plans” in court
1999 “Off-Highway Vehicles in Minnesota” evidentiary report released stimulating heretofore absent public discussion and debate about the place of ATVs, dirt-bike motorycles and four-wheel drive trucks on Minnesota's landscape
1997 Citizens and City of Duluth Say “No!” to Crosstown Snowmobile Trail
1996 MRR founded in Duluth
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