Minnesotans pay $15 million at the pump annually for motorized recreation. These public funds are being used to designate 20,000 miles of ATV, dirt-bike motorcycle and four-wheel drive truck routes in state forests, build scramble areas for these machines and to convert the North Shore State Trail and other state trails to ATV superhighways. These public funds are also used to crisscross private property statewide, ofter with permission from landowners. A 2003 legislative audit of the DNR's motorized recreation program found a lack of oversight and accountability, related party transactions and inadequate attention to environmental review, enforcement and restoration of damaged land and water.
With a MRR service contract to complete a Citizen Audit of publicly funded snowmobile and ATV clubs and their local government fiscal agents MRR will assist you and your group in completing the steps described in our Toolkit for the Quiet Majority: Challenging Public Funding of Motorized Recreation to accomplish the following goals:
- Expose the need for oversight and accountability in disbusement of public funds to motorized clubs
- Limit expansion of unwanted motorized recreation
- Closure of unwanted motorized recreation routes
- Redirect funds to mitigate the unwanted effects of motorized recreation
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