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SF 2125 Senate Long Description

E Relating to natural resources; extending the deadline for the commissioner of natural resources (DNR) to identify and designate trails within designated wildlife management areas for all-terrain vehicle use, requiring the designation of a certain minimum number of miles of trails and requiring signs, authorizing the designation of areas of historic ATV use; providing for use by ATVs of the existing west access road to the Moose River dike; authorizing and regulating the use of ATVs by licensed deer hunters during the regular firearms deer season in a certain wildlife management area near the Beltrami Marshall county line; reducing the total percentage of revenues from the in lieu sales tax on lottery tickets dedicated to certain natural resources funds; requiring a certain percentage of payments to counties in lieu of taxes on conservation lands to be used for development of the lands; adding certain lands to the Bear Creek, Border, Cedarbend, Clear River and East Branch, Enstrom, Golden Valley, Hayes, Nereson, Rosver, Skime and Wannaska wildlife management areas in Roseau county, the Carmalee, Fireweed, Gun Dog, Lee, Moose River, Saw-Whet, Wapiti, Willow Run and Wolf Trail wildlife management areas in Beltrami county, the East Park, Elm Lake, Espelie, Grygla, Huntly, Moylan, New Maine, Sem, Sharp, Snowshoe, Thief Lake and Valley wildlife management areas in Marshall county, the Palmville wildlife management area in Marshall and Roseau counties and the South Shore wildlife management area in Lake of the Woods and Roseau counties; temporarily restricting the authority of the commissioner to issue citations for ATV use violations on the designated wildlife management area lands; providing for the exchange of certain land in the Grygla wildlife management area in Marshall county and the Cedarbend and East Branch wildlife management areas in Roseau county; authorizing the sale of certain consolidated conservation land in Roseau county; requiring the commissioner to establish a wildlife management area access working group for each county with designated lands to identify trails for ATV use, specifying certain working group membership, meeting, voting and reporting requirements (mk, ja)