Wording of 91-A to DOT

1-20-2020: Communication in support of HB 1427; " Many people do not dare to speak up or complain because they are bullied and harassed by their "friends," neighbors, politically powerful business associates, or co-workers. It's a sad situation.

3-22-2019: NEW HAMPSHIRE DOS, DNCR & DOT OHRV/ATV COORDINATION MEETING

1-11-2021:Presentation on Snowmobile and OHRV signing.

2-25-2019: Communication to Committee re. HB 660, HB 683, HB 498, HB 591; "I have dreams and plans of starting a family here, restoring the family farm, creating a home business and living out my days as my father and his father before him were able to do... That is now all in question due to rapidly expanding OHRV traffic and the noise they create." "Governments in every country have a responsibility to set up policies and legislation for controlling community noise... Without appropriate intervention the noise impact on communities will escalate. If governments implement only weak noise policies and regulations, they will not be able to prevent a continuous increase in noise pollution and associated adverse health effects."( World Health Organizaton)

7-10-2019: Letter to to Sarah Stewart re State spending $41,000. on OHRV access

2018 Mink Hill Road Snowmobile Connector permit

7-22-2020 ATV road crossing permit for Route 25, Warren, N.H.

3-22-2021 Colebbrook Selectboard Meeting Minutes

5-17-2019 redacted proposed OHRV crossing Rt. 145

13 mile woods access location satellite image

11-13-2020 Submission to 1182 Committee

11-20-2020 Submission to 1182 Committee

8-6-2014 DOT to BOT "Unfortunately it appears that these guidelines are not being adhered to by the Bureau of Trails."

1-1-2016: Use of Dynamic Message Signs

5-5-2016: OHRV typical highway crossing drawing

10-6-2017: HB 248

2-20-2019: letter to BOT closing trail due to property damage and noting unpermitted road crossing

2017:OHRV damage to class VI roads in Henniker

5-21-2019:DOT revokes OHRV road crossing at request of BOT

2-10-2020: BOT to F&F and legislators, some redacted, snowmobile tour and looking at snow grooming equipment

3-14-19DOT, DNCR review of statewide OHRV trail maps

8-10-2020: Concerns Identified During the Warner River Protected Instream Flow Study Reconnaissance, including ATV damage.

9-23-2020: DOT and DNCR to Colebrook and Columbia: "are in receipt of your respective correspondences, which express an interest in exploring the use of portions of the outof-service state-owned railroad corridor from Columbia Bridge Road in Columbia to Simms Stream to NH Route 26/Bridge Street in Colebrook, for uses other than railroad including hiking, walking, and OHRVs

10-14-2020: Columbia to DOT and BOT: "We also acknowledge and understand that your response includes non-overlapping proposed ATV use of the rail corridor north from our Town Hall properties but we have not had any recent communcatons on that proposal which apparently was made by the Town of Colebrook through the Metallak ATV Club."

11-3-2020: Colebrook to DOT and BOT; "We hope to...decrease of eliminate OHRV traffic on town roads

7-20-2020: Sno-moles want permission to use ATV on rail trail for maintenance.

10-15-20??:NHDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan; Public Feedback Survey responses.

NHDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan Review.

NHDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan; why people are afraid to cycle on the roads.

NHDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan Policies, Programs, General Practices.

NHDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan RPC networks and priorities.

NHDOT Pedestrian and Bicycle Transportation Plan funding sources.

5-22-2021: Caledonian Record article: "We sold this Ride the Wilds system as 1,000 miles of trails, but if it includes 500 miles of road it's not really trails. That's the biggest aggravation people have in the area."

11-5-2020: Submission to HB 1182 Committee

1-20-2020: Support for HB 1427; "We have friends who live in the town of Pittsburg who can no longer leave their windows open, sit outside, walk along the street, or work in their gardens during the summer months due to the noise, dust, and smell of ATVs. Many people do not dare to speak up or complain because they are bullied and harassed by their "friends," neighbors, politically powerful business associates, or co-workers. It's a sad situation.

1-29-2020: letter to Commissioner of DOT: "Please protect the landowners from the money and clout of the ATV groups. There are too many people now to allow everyone to do as they please as a "right" without hurting someone else. Landowners have no recourse but to leave their loved homes, or in the case of no recourse, to have their peace disturbed greatly. Imagine your home on one of these trails. "

7-12-2019: Pittsburg Selectboard to DOT in support of three OHRV road crossings in town.

11-5-2020: Request to DOT for clarification of permitted OHRV road crossings on the Ride the Wilds system.

6-4-2020: Bradford N.H. Rail Trail drawings

NH RSA:Section 215-A:39;; ATV and Trail Bike operation on State Lands

Class VI roads fact sheet

12-5-19: "Dear Commissioner Sheehan, Given the below directive, could you explain to me how the state portion of Bear Rock Road in Stewartstown is permitted to be open? It is a class II Highway, and was not opened by statute. There are similar instances throughout Coos County. Thank you."

5-28-2019: DOT to DOT re. Colebrook publc meeting on OHRVs redacted: "12 yo on bicycle vs on OHRV argument."

3-4-2019 "Commissioner Sheehan states that roads will be used by OHRVs “rare cases” and the DOT is working on behalf of “all the citizens of NH.”

10-24-2017 Commissioner of DOT to OHRV Clubs: "It is important to note, however, that no crossing or connector that exists on NHDOT property is exempt from the need to seek and have granted a permit for the use of the NHDOT right of way. Althrough the NHDOT understands that historically indificials may have used a section of highway right of way, this use was never formerly authorized and therefore not allowed per RSA 215-A."

10-8-2018: Backhoes

7-8-2019: DOT to DNCR re DNCR request that more roads be opened to OHRVs

5-10-2019: Use and Occupancy Agreement Between NHDOT and NHDNCR for the Procedure to Incorporate OHRV Crossing/Connecter Permits Into the Highway System

11-12-2020: DOT fact sheet class VI roads

4-3-2020:BOT to DOT OHRV crossing permit for Route 35, Warren.)

10-23-2020: Ride the Wilds ATV road crossings

3-14-2019: DNCR, OHRV meeting agenda

Environmental Documentation checklist for OHRV trails to be filled out by OHRV Clubs

10-6-2017 DOT statewide OHRV Connector Policy

5-5-2016 DOT Statewide OHRV Crossing Policy

5-5-2016: DOT Statewide Typical OHRV Crossing.

10-3-2020: Email accompanying letter to Scott Mason

8-16-2019: Communication to DNCR and DOT "ATV/OHRVers are destroying the pavement of our roads (tearing the pavement up) and spewing gravel from driveways and waysides into the paved roads. I also find ATV/OHRVers are disrespectful of private property (i.e. defecating, leaving trash and destroying cordoned off areas of private driveways.) This is despite no trespassing/private drive signs. Furthermore, I have discovered that there are very few conservation and law enforcement officers to adequtely address the activties of the ATV/OHRVers."

11-6-2020: DOT response: "there are no DOT-approved OHRV crossings of state roads in Henniker... With regards to a map, the Bureau of Planning has been working with Department of Safety and the DNCR Trails Bureau to create a GIS mapping tool. It is not completed yet and I’m not sure if it will be intended for public use or not. Other than that, we don’t have any maps"OHRV oad crossings redacted

6-28-2021: Communication to DOT; "Much has happened over the past 9 years to destroy once-peaceful neighborhoods and people’s lives because of OHRV Trails being placed in neighborhoods. One would think that people in government who have power to correct these wrongs would try to do so. However, the “wrongs” continue. We are aware that DNCR entered into a Grant-in-Aid agreement with Great North Woods Riders Club in 2020 to build a new trail to reroute OHRV traffic “off” Back Lake Road. However, after the trail was completed, Back Lake Road remains open, simply expanding the club’s trail system. The new club trail map lists Back Lake Road as a town road to access the main trail. Old ATV Shared Route signs remain on the road . New signs have not rerouted ATVs. A tally was done with matching video September 6, 2020 and another May 30, 2021 with matching video. The tally remains the same before and after the new trail was built. This did not change the traffic on Back Lake Road. There are still over 650+ on any weekend day. You would not allow 650+ ATVs to roar past your home daily."

9-6-2019: BOT re. Mom's request: "I guess this is in our court."

11-22-2019: DOT to DOT re. Gorham; "The Town of Gorham is beginning a planning study to possibly pursue a reconfiguration of the segment of NH 16 from the northerly intersection of US 2 to Berlin... The general desire is to eliminate two travel lanes, but there’s no clear idea of how best to use the space that this would free up to better accommodate bikes, ped, and possibly OHRVs."

11-25-2020: Colebrook railroad corridor letter of supportTown of Colebrook

1-27-2020; Communication to DOT and BOT re. Raymond Route 107 OHRV Rail Trailcrossing; "I am contacting you in regards to a Safety concern that exists at the intersection of Rt 107 in Raymond & the Rail Trail crossing that runs South of the Dunkin Donuts & North of Citizens Bank. I have also copied Chris Gamache on this because the trail is used for Motorized Recreational use. It has been my experience when crossing via, foot, bicycle, sled or horseback riding, that the increased traffic makes this a High Risk area. When one car might stop, others will attempt to go around the stopped vehicle which has made for some extremely uncomfortable close encounters.

7-20-2020: Communication including Town of Columbia, to DOT re. request for rail trail use for hiking trail

10-27-2020: Communication to 1182 Committee re. OHRVs,

1-28-2021: Communication to DOT and Town of Gorham; "No amount of signage or education is or has been a solution to this problem. Riders arrive here from out of town so revved up and excited to ride, there are no rules that apply to them. As one rider said to me, “if you don’t like it, why don’t you move, I’m here to ride.” "

11-27-2020: Communication to DOT and BOT: ". Northern Trails Lodging is allowing its customers to cross Rte 3 when there is not a legal crossing there. It is both Atvs and Snowmobiles. The Atvers cross over go into Spruce Cones Campground and up into the Tarns which is a private road."

6-23-19 BOT to DOT: "The abutter to the south...has also been approached the club and our office to inquire about using a portion of his property again and he says it is closed."

5-30 to 11-1 2020 Gorham Police OHRV complaint Dispatch, 23 pages: "“2 ATVs traveling on North Main St…..one ATV had a man oper, the other ATV had a young child operating it….. 12:46: SP602 advised he has the 2 ATVs with the young child operating; looks to be about 6-7 years old….issued FG SM to the adult; for operating ATV under age of 12...“an ATV that was going onto the trail did not stop at the stop sign and almost hit her…..D1 advised the 10-88 the officer just left that areas and there is only one officer on duty today….S1 out of position”..."Lancaster Rd….the noise from the OHRVs is unbearable” "...an ATV stopped in front of her house and the passenger gave her the finger and told her to “go F herself”...“very very young child” operating an ATV on Lancaster Rd, following an adult…S2 out of position at the other end of town.” “... The noise is unbelievable and the speeding is dangerous.” ...

2020: Gorham Police Department OHRV tallied: Gorham Police Department 2020 OHRV complaints/actions 355: calls for service (includes walk-in, flagged), 106: initiated (by police officer) = 461 total, Complaints: 181: off-route (roads/trails closed to OHRVs), 120: after hours, 56: Northeast Snowmobile and ATV Rentals, 36: speeding, 26: noise, 16: trespassing, 9: dust, 6: young child.

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation - Guidelines for the Establishment of On-highway OHRV Connectors.

Communication to DOT re HB 592:"I testified last month regarding the proposed HB 592. Having spent many years teaching middle school students, I reiterate that young people who cannot even remember how to keep to the right and anticipate possible oncoming students and staff at school hallway corners and intersections on foot have no business driving on public roads. There is a reason people need to be 16 years old to be issued drivers licenses. "

5-5-2019 Communication to Caleb Dobbins, DOT re. HB 592; "I sure wish that other government officials would have the courage and integrity to set aside political agendas and support what I consider to be a huge starting point in righting the wrong that was committed at the beginning of the OHRV trail system development by putting economic gain ahead of public safety. "

11-3-2020: Offer of Ride the Wilds OHRV map to 1182 Committee. "I asked DNCR to detail how many miles of their Connector Trails - BOT State Corridors A,C,D- were state road, town road, public land, private land but they could not tell me. "

11-2020: Communication to HB 1182 Committee re. OHRV use of roads as a taking: “The court finds that an interference that persists throughout the entire summer, depriving the plaintiffs of the enjoyment of their own homes and backyards from the end of May through the beginning of November every year, is of sufficient magnitude to constitute a taking.”

11-23-2019"Communication to 1182 Committee and DOT: "I imagine you may have heard from OHRV interests, clubs, and their industry lobbyists that class VI roads make great trails, don't bother anyone and if anything should be opened up to further OHRV use. I would imagine the Bureau Of Trails in one form or another also supports this false narrative as they have a clear conflict of interest in the debate but know that at least an equal number of the constituents you represent, and in many towns such as ours a clear majority, do not feel OHRV trails are an appropriate use of class VI roads. "

1-27-2020: Communication to DOT re HB 1427: "To open state roads via legislation is to deny NH citizens due process. RSA 215-A:41,42,43 was passed to be used as criteria in the opening of all OHRV trails on state lands. "The general court declares it to be in the public interest to balance the demand for ATV and trail bike trails on state lands.” To open state roads with no abutter notification and no consideration of the ~50 criteria of RSA 215-A is to undermine the public process."

1-27-2020:Communication to DOT; "Off Road Vehicles do not belong on roads. To open all non-divided public ways to OHRVs is a shameless attempt to by-pass the abutter notification required before opening roads to OHRVs that Governor Sununu signed last year. HB 591 IX"

1-21-2020: Communication to Representatives; "As we increasingly see the all too real consequences of climate change, state policy must be to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not promote them: Vote against HB 1612

1-28-2020 to Transportation Committee" support for HB 1688

1-27-2020: Communication to DOT, cover 'letter.'

1-27-2020: Communication to DOT and Transportation Committee re House Bills 1427, 1438, 1156 & 1688 "The ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM is climate change. The state’s unrelenting support for motorized recreation in the face of the global meltdown, is quite short-sighted. Alternatives are available and our state leaders should be encouraging us all to take care of ourselves and this fine planet by making use of them"

1-27-2020: Communication to DOT re HBs 1688, 1427, 1156, 1438; "2.) HB 1427 I support this bill to remove authorization for ORHV use from certain sections of state highway, as residents were denied due process in the prior openings of some roads. 3.) HB 1156 This study to "minimize" use of public roads for OHRV is an error-in-the-making, and I oppose it. "OH", off-highway vehicles, should simply NOT be on roads. Even the manufacturers of these vehicles state that... 4.) HB 1438 NO! Again, OHRV's do NOT belong on any public roads, divided or not! And this totally ignores all the abutting tax-payers, who may have their home's serenity totally destroyed by the noise and pollution of ATV usage on their roads"

2-22-2019: Communication to Transportation Committee re.HB 683; "In the past I have driven both a snowmobile and a four wheeler. It was a lot of fun, quite frankly, but I never kidded myself that in doing so I was in any way a shepherd of the natural world around me. It was part of a job I was working to pay my rent, while making a very unnatural racket, scaring away any wildlife I might hope to see and spewing a lot of carbon monoxide out behind me in the process. I'm sure using these motorized vehicles for recreational purposes is even more fun. But sometimes the costs of fun are too high. Someone has to think about the future and protect what can't protect itself. "

5-21-2019: Communication to DOT re Jimtown Rd., Gorham

5-21-2019: request for OHRV sign removal on Jimtown Rd.

5-2016: DRED Commissioner Rose; "As such, I will not extend the OHRV portion of the Presidentail Rail Trail at this time. I certainly understand its appeal to local OHRV enthusiasts, but there needs to be additional work and cooperation by the stakeolders before expansion is considered for this section of trail"

10-2-2020: Letter to Scott Mason

Map; Hennicker OHRV crossing Route 114.

2-26-2019; Communication to Transportation Committee "I am writing in support of HB 683. As you know the Mink Hills are a special place. They have become overrun with non-local ATV's and other off-road motor vehicles. Years ago the town of Warner recognized the value of the Minks and put in place zoning regulations in order to preserve the open lands and forest, not to provide a motocross park."

6-2020: Mom's Trail DOT row updated map

2-25-2019: Communication to DOT Commissioner; "Acceptable, responsible, and transparent due process was not followed as the changes to OHRV use and trail development occurred in the North Country. This deprived many thoughtful, caring residents of a voice in the development of their communities and resulted in an expansion of OHRV’s on roadways, in neighborhoods, and on trails which severely impact people’s quality of life. Expansion in this one sided manner has created great divisions and challenges for small communities where residents instead should enjoy the benefits of thoughtful interactions. "

5-11- : next TAC meeting

Paradise Rd., Warren NH Route 118/25 ATV/Snowmobile crossing:"The NH Natural Heritage database has been checked for records of rare species and exemplary natural communities near the area mapped below. We currently have no recorded occurrences for sensitive species near this project area... A negative result (no record in our database) does not mean that a sensitive species is not present. This report is valid through 4/23/2021."

NH DOT typical snowmobile road crossing

NH Fish and Game OHRV fact sheet

Unknown location, OHRV destruction of pasture.

1-27-2020: Communication to Transportation Committee re. HB 1165; "I live up the road from the rail trail and its presence is one of the reasons we bought our house 14 years ago . I do not utilize the rail trail during OHRV season. There is no reason to perpetuate the nuisance in a residential neighborhood. This would end the Gorham lawsuit, which as a Gorham taxpayer I am paying for this. The residents along the rail trail have suffered enough I could not imagine haveing to deal with this day after day. Please pass this bill."

2-20-2019: Commnication to Transportation Committee re. HB 498, "If you truly want to fulfill this mission, then please amend HB 498 and vote to end the use of all public roads by Off Road vehicles. It was an experiment to turn roads into OHRV trails and if you listen to your constituents who actually live along these roads (and who were left out of the initial planning process) - you will hear how terribly this experiment has failed. These residents are now subjected to 1000s of OHRVs for 4-5 months of the year and have lost their quality of life and need relief now."

1-29-2020: Gorham OHRV trail connector permit from the interesection of US-2/N-16 (northern intersection), northerly .55 miles to access point on the west side of NH-16."

Gorham OHRV enforcement reports

1-2-2021: Communication to DNCR and DOT re. opening roads to OHrVs; "Coos County Sheriff’s department shows 1113 tickets written during the 2020 OHRV season. (a few documents are missing, so that number is probably higher). The 168 page record shows that 2-3 deputies spent 2-3 days a week on dedicated OHRV duty working 6-12 hour shifts. The Sheriff told me that the patrols started in Gorham and that they were kept so busy they had a hard time leaving to go elsewhere and that most of the tickets were issued in Gorham...Meanwhile the Attorney General’s office has spent over $258,328.07 fighting to keep the OHRV trailhead in the residentially zoned Gorham neighborhood on Rte 2, even though the new trailhead on Rte 16 makes this original trailhead completely redundant."

1-28-2020: Communication to DOT and House Committee re. OHRV legislation.

3-16-2019: Communication to DNCR and DOT; "I want to thank you so much for taking the time to address the difficulties around OHRV use in the state. I do not live on a trail, although I am surrounded by snowmobile trails. When the state embraced this sport in the early years I thought there was a serious lack of pro-active regulation addressing it. Too much, too soon, too loud, too smelly, too little policing and trails rammed through without consideration of abutters or local concerns. I believe that much of the same can be said about the situation now."

2019: Henniker, Patenaude Minks property map

6-18-2021: Pittsburg road crossing application; junction of Rr. 3 and Back Lake Rd. to the driveway of Bear Rock Adventures. Map included.

5-5-2019: Communication to Transportation Committee and DNCR; re HB 592; "There are children as young as 12 driving on public roads in vehicles not even designed to be safely driven on roads, even by adults. These young riders are a danger to themselves as well as everyone else on the road. Does the amendment really address this problem? No. An accompanying adult will just be helpful to pick up the pieces when a twelve year old driving an ATV 45 mph on a paved road makes a poor decision."

5-17-2019 letter to DDOT and legislators: "Does it make sense to open this quarter mile section of NH Rt#145 to OHRV traffic? Are we thinking of visitors safety and protection when we introduce them to this sort of environment? The speed limit along this road is 45 mph. With two passing logging truck or other large vehicles in this trap will certainly make one think twice about how safe this really is."

USFS: Standard snowmobile bridge drawing, not for construction.

9-30-2020 letter to Sununu: "Dear Governor Sununu, Please end the misery for the Gorham residents who live along the residentially zoned Lancaster Road, (US 2.) They have been living with loud, dusty OHRV trails for 10 years now. This is a property rights issue that cuts across party lines."

11-16-2020: Communication to DOT requesting list/map of roads opened by SB-250.

3-11-2019: Cabot Inn to DOT: "To whom ever concern, I am contacting NH DOT because many of our guests request to stay at our facility but they would like to have ATV access from our property to ATV starting trail in Lancaster downtown, which is 1.4 mile on US route 2. Please direct me to right department for request approval. Thank you Zino Patel | General Manager Cabot Inn & Suites 200 Portland st, Lancaster, NH"

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7-12-2019 to DOT: 'Has the Rt. 145 Crossing in Colebrook been approved? I heard that it's been given verbal approval, but hadn't seen any announcement yet. This still seems like a very dangerous crossing. Also, what was the rationale for the three road crossings in Pittsburg? I understand the Tarns, but what about the two others? Is there a place where I could see the actual reasons?"

Request to BOT and DOT: "Good Morning Lt. Prince Mr. Beaulieu I am emailing you to ask if you would be willing to sit down with me and Commissioner Samson to discuss the future of the ATV/OHRV crossing at the intersection of Hughes Road and NH Rt. 145 intersection in Colebrook. We have concerns with the impact of the number of vehicles that go through this crossing during any weekend or holiday period. "

11-17-2020: Communication to DOT re. HB 1182 and trail connectors