wileyE said:
Weyerhauser and timber co. land was unlimited also.
Weyerhauser has not allowed offroad motorcycle use on their land since the 1970's.
wileyE said:
The key to keeping DNR lands open is to make sure the legislator allocate ALL orv money back into the system. This has been a problem in the past.
This is still a problem and will continue until the voters of Washinton get rid of the Democrat majority in the State House of Representative and State Senate.
The State constitution requires that the gas tax collected for fuel that is not used on state highways must be refunded. Instead of a direct refund, in the early 1970's the funds were "refunded" into the NOVA (Non-highway and Offroad Vehicle Activities) account. over the years, more and more of these NOVA funds have been spent on non motorized projects.
The Northwest Motorcycle Association has spent tens of thousands to fight this in court. The most recent ruling was by a state court of appeals and they ruled that a "refund" is still a "refund" even if you do not "refund" the money to the same group of people that you collected it from.
Sounds like complete nonsense and the next step would the before the Washington State Supreme Court. Unfortunately there are two problems. The Supreme Court does not hear all of that cases brought before it. They get to pick and chose and so far they have not selected to hear this case. The second problem is if the State Supreme court did select to hear this case, the Northwest Motorcycle Association would have to figure a way to come up the the over $100K that it would cost.