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Motorized recreation less disruptive..

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paulharris

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yep, its true. of course the greenies hate this because it does not fall in line with their agenda
 

eddy

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Human vs Machine

The studies show what we already have known from observation: The critters do not care about snowmobiles and only when the motor is turned off and the human gets of the machine do they recognize that it is a human (prey or enemy) at all.
It is also important to keep our machines as quiet as possible, especially when land closures are most likely to cite noise as one reason. This is the one reason we have direct control of.
BTW the new Ski Doo 850 is very:face-icon-small-win quiet, amazingly so.
 

MNBlizzard

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Just wow! Let's start the petition to get our land back! This quote is so vindicating, but pisses me off at the same time when I think of the land stolen from us under the guise of animal endangerment.

"Counter to public perception, non-motorized activities had more evidence for a negative effect of recreation than motorized activities, with effects observed 1.2 times more frequently."

Here's the entire research paper: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167259#pone-0167259-g005
 

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