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Bill in Kansas legislature threatens trails on public land
If you live (or ride/walk trails) in Kansas, please contact your state
representative immediately and let them know that you support trails on public lands in Kansas and oppose HB2583. The Kansas legislature has an online list of all House members with contact information. You can send an email or make a call in less than two minutes: http://www.kslegislature.org/houseroster/ Members of the Environment Committee (which will be holding a hearing on the bill Tuesday) a Environment: Freeborn, Chairperson; Tafanelli, Vice-Chairperson; Compton, Faber, Hayzlett, D. Johnson, Light, Powell, Powers, Schwartz, Sloan. Flora, Ranking Minority Member; Faust-Goudeau, Flaharty, J. Miller, Svaty, Thimesch. DETAILS: According to Ken Miner, Kansas State Representative of the International Mountain Bicycling Association, a bill has been introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives that threatens individuals and volunteer organizations that work on trails on public lands in Kansas. Under the terms of the bill, any adjoining landowner would be able to sue individuals or organizations that put volunteer time into trails on public lands. Many (most?) trails on public lands are at least partly built or maintained by volunteers. The resulting liability would essentially put a stop to such trail building in Kansas. The bill is scheduled for a hearing on Tues, Feb 10th, 2004. More details he http://www.mobikefed.org/2004_02_01_...435070 733465 --Brent bhugh [at] mwsc.edu www.MoBikeFed.org -- rec.bicycles.off-road is moderated by volunteers. To find help solving posting problems, or contact the moderators, please see http://rbor.org/ Please read the charter before posting: http://rbor.org/rbor_charter.txt |
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Bill in Kansas legislature threatens trails on public land
"Brent Hugh" wrote in message
om... If you live (or ride/walk trails) in Kansas, please contact your state representative immediately and let them know that you support trails on public lands in Kansas and oppose HB2583. The Kansas legislature has an online list of all House members with contact information. You can send an email or make a call in less than two minutes: http://www.kslegislature.org/houseroster/ Members of the Environment Committee (which will be holding a hearing on the bill Tuesday) a Environment: Freeborn, Chairperson; Tafanelli, Vice-Chairperson; Compton, Faber, Hayzlett, D. Johnson, Light, Powell, Powers, Schwartz, Sloan. Flora, Ranking Minority Member; Faust-Goudeau, Flaharty, J. Miller, Svaty, Thimesch. DETAILS: According to Ken Miner, Kansas State Representative of the International Mountain Bicycling Association, a bill has been introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives that threatens individuals and volunteer organizations that work on trails on public lands in Kansas. Under the terms of the bill, any adjoining landowner would be able to sue individuals or organizations that put volunteer time into trails on public lands. Many (most?) trails on public lands are at least partly built or maintained by volunteers. The resulting liability would essentially put a stop to such trail building in Kansas. What kind of freaks are these people? I'm so glad I left Kansas long ago. What a messed-up state. They have almost nothing to bring people to the state, so they now want to destroy the kind of public projects that have been proven attractive to high-income residents. Nice job, Kansas. Keep shooting yourself in the foot, and building more walled communities. Rocketman -- rec.bicycles.off-road is moderated by volunteers. To find help solving posting problems, or contact the moderators, please see http://rbor.org/ Please read the charter before posting: http://rbor.org/rbor_charter.txt |
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