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Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2125

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)