Gems from the DNR reports

lowry

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Feb 25, 2005
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I have been bored at work and have been reading all of the Conservation Officer reports for the year posted on the dnr site.
People are so stupid, it's no wonder the DNR has little patience for people breaking the laws. I read one report of a guy who had a bald eagle in captivity and had painted it's head brown so as not to raise suspicion.


Here's just a small sampling. Note that most of the orv offenses do not include dirtbikes, there were very few of those and they usually specify if it's an orv or dirtbike.

 

2TrakR

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Jan 1, 2002
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Note the "operating in a closed area" tickets. They were all issued for operating on either a county or forest road. Most would think a "closed area" would be an area that has been closed to ORV like a swamp, hill climb or similar. In this case, these "closed areas" are just normally open roads.
When the DNR fights against a county opening their roads, for example, they cite the number of tickets for this. It's usually wordsmithed to imply that operating in an environmentally sensitive area and a "closed" area are one and the same...
To quote the DNR/USFS "Ogemaw county should not open it's county roads to ORV use because it will lead to ORV entering into environmentally sensitive and other closed areas." "There have been x more tickets issued in Ogemaw county for operating in a closed area since the county ordinance was in place."
To many this obviously means that ORVs are tearing up the precious wetlands and fragile hillsides now that the ORVs can use county roads. What they don't know is those tickets were for riding on a gravel road.