MRR's landmark 1999 report, Off-Highway Vehicles in Minnesota, provided a statewide baseline on the effects of off-road vehicles on Minnesota's environment. This report also established hertofore absent public discussion and debate regarding ATVs, dirt-bike motorycles and four-wheel drive trucks.
Participating in court challenges, EAW comment periods, and auditing the use and misuse of public funds and public and private land, requires tools for collecting data that is recognized by science and the courts as expert testimony. Today, after a decade of collaboration with Minnesota scientists, area universities, land managers, state agencies and numerous environmental review cases in the field and in the courts, MRR has developed a few simple but effective tools for assessing and documenting trail conditions and related costs of restoration.
A service contract with MRR for a Motorized Recreation Damage Assessment and Cost of Restoration Analysis on a trail important to you provides site visit and training in use of MRR's Off-road Vehicle Effects Checklist and Cost of Restoration Analysis. Phone support is provided in analyzing data. MRR can assemble your data in Power Point or other format presentations to help you motivate public officials to protect your community from ATV damage. Presentations are posted on MRR's website for easy sharing in your community.
Spend a day in the field with MRR staff photographing, GPSing and effeciently describing a trail of concern!
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