CHAPTER 75

H.P. 1066 - L.D. 1519

Resolve, To Address the Unauthorized Publication of

Information Concerning Recreational Trails That Cross

Private Property

Sec. 1. Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Department of Conservation to resolve conflicts. Resolved: That the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Conservation shall work with the Executive Department, State Planning Office, private property owners and interested parties to resolve conflicts regarding the publication, without landowner knowledge or consent, of descriptions of recreational trails or portions of recreational trails that cross private property; and be it further

Sec. 2. Program. Resolved: That the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Conservation shall develop and implement a program that:

A. Helps to ensure that published materials and website information describing recreational trails provide notice when a recreational trail crosses private property;

B. Encourages recreational users to be respectful of private property and makes those users aware when landowners

are voluntarily allowing the public to use recreational trails and that they have the right to limit the use of or completely close such a trail or portions of such a trail;

C. Advises nonprofit entities, authors, media and others who publish materials about recreational trails to ascertain whether or not a trail crosses private property and encourages them to obtain written permission to publish information about such a trail from the landowner; and