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NOVA FUNDS HELD HOSTAGE Your Nonhighway and Offroad Vehicle Activities appropriation for the next two years did not happen during the 2017 legislative sessions. This is the money collected from your ORV permit purchases and from the offroad portion of gas tax revenue. Thanks to multi-year...

Thers is a WOHVA person taking part in the study. WOHVA will be involved with providing input. What they do with the input is something that I don't know if the people putting on the study really know at this point. WOHVA and NMA were successful at getting the DNR share of the D-pass money...

If you have a dual registered vehicle (ORV and street plates), be aware that the DoL has implemented a new computer system. It appears as though every dual registered vehicle has had either one or both of their registrations canceled erroneously. I was unable to renew one of my bikes on line...

Just a little FYI. The State of WA does not have a DMV :awesomework:

That is the frustrating dilemma. Follow the letter of the law and risk getting cited and have to go to court to prove that the DNR wrongly wrote you up. Or throw money toward the government and get little in return other than the hope that they won't illegally hassle you.

Another thing to ponder if you prefer the d-pass over an ORV permit. None of the $2.40 that goes to the DNR from each d-pass must be used to support motorized recreation. I have sat down with DNR management when they offered to show how they used the d-pass money. It gets co-mingled with other...

For most people and for now anyway, the D-pass works best for the tow vehicle. Personally I have dual registered my tow vehicle, so no d-pass for that rig either.

It would be nice for the end users if we can make it work. Multi-agency passes are being studied. Long term equitable distribution of income is one of the big challenges. As a group, we have less leverage than the major nonmotorized entities so we would be exposed to the politics that always...

Keep in mind that your three d-passes net the DNR $7.20. That is less than they see out of one ORV permit. So if the intent is to fund ORV recreation, doesn't that make the d-pass a much worse return on investment?

The short answer is if you have an ORV permit and ORV use is legal where you are at, then no Discover Pass required. The DNR does not always agree with that statement, but it is the law and we have won in court three times now and never lost. Why is it so confusing? Maybe because the members...

But you do need an ORV permit or Discovery Pass to use the DNR managed trails or park at a DNR managed ORV trailhead.

Other than the rather suspect service and admin fees, all of your WA ORV permit must by law go toward ORV recreation.

Sarcasm Mode = ON If spending about the same amount as for an ORV permit and getting somewhere between zero and $2.40 in return gives you wood, tug away. :masturbanana[1]: Sarcasm Mode = OFF

Not tonight, gotta catch some zzzz before the alarm lights up at 4am. Here are links to the bills. http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=5338&Year=2017 http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=1446&Chamber=House&Year=2017

Tod Petersen Political Action Committee Chairman – Washington Off Highway Vehicle Alliance Legislative/Land Use Coordinator – Northwest Motorcycle Association Email: [email protected]

Thanks for the supportive words. I've been the WOHVA Political Action Committee Chairman since about 2007. Northwest Motorcycle VP or Pres or Legislative Coordinator since 1997. Lobbying on behalf of all forms of ORV for about 20 years. A bit of offroad vehicle racing mixed in too. Prior than...

Has that business model every worked?

My apologies about the attitude. A little backstory on the issue might help. Earlier this legislative session the idea was seriously floated to cancel ORV reciprocity agreements between WA and OR unless OR provides the VIN numbers relating to their ORV permit sales to WA so they could cross...

The mindset is the DNR is legally first and foremost a entity that exists to make money for state trust funds. Losing every penny of recreational funding just means no recreational access. The cheapest land manager is a gate and many old school DNR guys would be totally OK without public...