MRR Campaigns

MRR campaigns address the problems of noise, fumes, danger to others and environmental damage caused by motorized recreation in all its forms - ATVs, dirt-bike motorcycles, four-wheel drive trucks, snowmobiles and jet skis. MRR campaigns are built upon years of policy development and experience in the field. We pride ourselves on our informed, consistent, direct and unapologetic approach to solving motorized recreatoin problems.

MRR's Healthy Trails Campaign works to protect our state from ATVs, dirt-bike motorcycles and four-wheel drive trucks. We are opposed to DNR and motorized club plans to develop a statewide network of routes and scramble areas for these machines. MRR's Healthy Trails campaign is guided by recommendations of our 1996 Off-Highway Vehicles in Minnesota report and the 2003 Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor's Report.

MRR's One Quiet Lake Campaign works to establish at least one new quiet lake or river in each county of Minnesota. While few of Minnesota's 11,000 lakes are quiet the majority of Minneostans seek quiet on lakes. The good news is that local units of government already have authority to quiet lakes. Ehancing awareness of this simple good news is one objective of MRR's One Quiet Lake campaign.

MRR's Winter Quiet Campaign works to protect communities, neighborhoods and quiet places from the unwanted effects of snowmobiles. MRR has a long record of closing unwanted snowmobile trails. Central to this campaign is MRR's Easement Education program which teaches property owners that snowmobile trail easements across their land must be writtten, are temporary and can be withdrawn at any time. MRR's Winter Quiet campaign has enjoyed great success over the past ten years.

MRR's Challenging Public Funding of Motorized Recreation Camapaign will be unveiled March 8. This campaign will educate Minnesotans about how we each fund ATV, snowmobile and jet ski access to public land and water every time we buy gasoline. These funds are used to pay the salaries of the DNR administration and Trails and Waterways Division and to fund local snowmobile and ATV clubs in which conflicts of interest and grant violations are commonplace. MRR's CD Toolkit for the Quiet Majority will provide data and tools for holding the DNR and local motorized clubs accountable in 2006

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