{"id":921,"date":"2009-03-02T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2009-03-02T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T02:10:06","slug":"snowmobiler-claims-dec-violated-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/921","title":{"rendered":"Snowmobiler Claims DEC Violated Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressrepublican.com\/breakingnews\/local_story_061172936.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Press Republican<\/a> that has broad implications on a number of different levels. <\/p>\n<p>It demonstrates that the Department of Environmental Conservation treats some enthusiasts such as snowmobilers, and four-wheelers differently than cross-country skiers, hikers and horse riders. In other words, the DEC seems to have a politically correct list of activities that they like to encourage and another list of activities that they see as politically incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>It has ramifications for abandoned roads throughout the forest preserve which the DEC has tried to manage in the past but which a court has now ruled they don&#8217;t control.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a very interesting civil rights case. It&#8217;s good to see the Press Republican cover this story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting story from the Press Republican that has broad implications on a number of different levels. It demonstrates that the Department of Environmental Conservation treats some enthusiasts such as snowmobilers, and four-wheelers differently than cross-country skiers, hikers and horse riders. In other words, the DEC seems to have a politically correct list &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Snowmobiler Claims DEC Violated Rights&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-environment"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}