Renegade Riders

All-terrain vehicles are rolling by the thousands into the Minnesota woods, offering motorized thrills but also causing long-term damage to public wildlands, the Star Tribune revealed in a multimedia investigative report. As the state Department of Natural Resources struggles to curb destructive off-trail riding, the agency is also mapping an immense trail network for ATVs in the state's vast forests, according to reporters David Shaffer, Tom Meersman and Glenn Howatt and photographer Brian Peterson.