Heres the story from the star tribune.story
""Bill giving ATVs more ground goes to House
Mark Brunswick, Star Tribune
April 14, 2004ATV0414

A bill that would grant broader wetland access to ATVs and other vehicles passed the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday and is headed to the House floor.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Tom Hackbarth, R-Cedar, would allow driving on all wetlands on private property and those classified as peat bogs on public lands. The measure would allow driving on other public wetlands when they are frozen.
It passed on a voice vote.
Last year the Legislature prohibited all off-road driving on public and private wetlands if they contain open water for most of the year. Because some private landowners must cross public wetlands to reach their hunting or recreational property, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) supports changes to the law that would allow driving across some wetlands to reach a destination. A few other exceptions, such as driving to service utility lines, would also be allowed.
Hackbarth's bill would also give all-terrain-vehicle drivers broad access to many state forests -- except areas posted as closed. Current law requires the DNR to consider which trails and roads should be posted open, a process he said is expensive and cumbersome.
In 2005, the bill would set up a $100,000 grant to organizations for off-road-safety and conservation programs and would set aside $50,000 for a study of gasoline taxes paid by all-terrain-vehicle users.
Environmental activists raised concerns that the proposal was far too broad on defining exemptions for wetlands for ATVs, off-road motorcycles and 4-by-4 trucks.
A Senate ATV bill differs from the House version, and the issue will probably be negotiated in a conference committee.
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Please contact your representitive, and ask for their support for this bill. Heres your chance to right a wrong, and be active in opening up riding areas for all.
Heres a way to find out who your rep is, and what their email address is....itll take 10 minutes, to find who they are, and write a short , polite, request for them to support HF 2678.


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I wish we were able to ride ditches. Or I wish I lived above the "agricultural zone" So I could ride ditches all year.

 

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Thanks to all who called on their representives, and got this compromise done.

 

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