REGISTRATION CHANGES

IDPR PROPOSES CHANGE TO REGISTRATION PRACTICES

Idaho Parks and Rec is proposing to change the way we register our Off Road Vehicles and Snowmobiles. The proposal would would eliminate the vendor program as it is today. IDPR would like our input and is scheduling the following public meetings for open discussion:

Boise – November 1 – 5-7 – IDPR Headquarters

Idaho Falls – October 24 – 5-7 – IDPR East Region Office

Pocatello – October 25 – 5-7 -Forest Service Office

Lewiston – October 27 – 5-7 – Hells Gate State Park

Funding for Recreational Improvements

The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation (IDPR) will accept applications for funds from the recreational programs listed below until January 27, 2012.

The Recreational Vehicle Program (RV) is used to provide facilities, programs, or services for the health, safety or enjoyment of recreational vehicle users. Recreational vehicles are motor homes, travel trailers, pickup campers, tent trailers, and van conversions.

The Waterways Improvement Fund (WIF) is used for the protection and promotion of safety, waterways improvement, creation and improvement of parking areas for boating purposes, boat ramps and moorings, marking of waterways, search and rescue, and all things incidental to such purposes including the purchase of property.

More meetings, more comments needed because more trails are at risk!

Read letter conserning the Owyhee Front here:

http://id-rc.org/wp-content/uploads/1584_001.pdf

(Opinion piece by Karen Budd-Falen, Budd-Falen Law Offices September 16, 2009)

Consider these facts:

• Between 2000 and 2009, Western Watersheds Project (“WWP”) filed at least 91 lawsuits in the federal district courts and at least 31 appeals in the federal appellate courts.

• Between 2000 and 2009, Forest Guardians (now known as WildEarth Guardians) filed at least 180 lawsuits in the federal district courts and at least 61 appeals in the federal appellate courts.

• Between 2000 and 2009, Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed at least 409 lawsuits in the federal district courts and at least 165 appeals in the federal appellate courts.