MRR and the North Shore State Trail
DNR says conversion of the North Shore State Trail to ATV use is the "backbone of the DNR's proposed off-highway vehicle (ATVs, dirt-bike motorcycles, four-wheel drive trucks) system in northeast Minnesota".   MRR is opposed to an off-highway vehicle system in Northeast Minnesota..    A "mandatory" Environmental Assessment is required to "convert" the NSST to ATV use.  MRR is inventorying trail conditions, illegal ATV use and impacts the entire length of the North Shore State Trail in preparation for public and environmental review. 

• 11/4/05  Duluth News Tribune:  ATVs Reconsidered on North Shore State Trail

• 10/21/05 DNR Cancels ATV Meeting After Public Involvement Requested

• 10/19/05 Public Involvement Requested in DNR/County Decisions Regarding ATVs on the North Shore State Trail

• 8/6/04 Duluth News Tribune Editorial DNR Right to Keep ATVs from North Shore Trail

• 8/5/04 Duluth News Tribune Article: No ATVs on the North Shore State Trail

• North Shore State Trail Monitoring Form

• 7/2/04 MRR Request for Information to DNR re NSST and Environmental Review

• 6/1/04 MRR Request for Information to DNR re NSST and Environmental Review

• 1/16/04 MRR has requested information about county board's decision making and policy and history of snowmobile and ATV trail funding and construction (pdf)

• 1/11/04  Duluth News Tribune, Sam Cook, State Trail Should Remain Closed to ATVs

• 1/6/04 ATV Update and Action Alert  

• St. Louis Co. Commissioner Contact Information

• 12/29/03 ATVs and NSST Background Information 

• 12/23/03St. Louis County Board secretly voted unanimously 12/23/03 to convert the North Shore State Trail to ATV use. Resolution 785. (pdf)

• 12/23/03 St. Louis Co. Board Resolution 

• ATVs on the North Shore State Trail: The "Backbone" of the DNRs "Off-highway Vehicle System for Northeast Minnesota"

• 9/15/03 Letter to Peg Sweeney from ATV Club 

• 8/15/03 Draft Funding Request from North Shore ATV Club

• 2/14/03 Wetland Alert! - Lake County