ATVs and landowners the focus of hearing

Written by WCSH-TV

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

AUGUSTA, Maine --Legislators in Augusta are working to ease relations between land owners and ATV riders.

They are looking to amend part of an existing law to allow law enforcement to stop an ATV rider without any obvious physical reason, if only to see if they have permission to be riding on private property.

The public hearing Tuesday saw support for the amendment from private land owners, woodland owners and blueberry growers.

More than 90 percent of land in Maine is privately owned and supporters of the amendment say recreation like ATV riding depends on a good relationship with those owners.

Source: http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=113564&catid=2

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