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: For the most part, WI residents do *NOT* pay for these lands through taxes - most of the land related expenses are supported through hunting, fishing, snow mobiling, etc, license/registration fees, park entrance/permit fees, and special taxes. If the DNR chooses to reconsider the rule instead of just dropping it (or resubmitting it as is, in which case the committee will almost certainly nix it) a committee will be formed involving DNR folk, paintball folk, and possibly folk from other groups who use DNR land, and you can bet a permit structure will come out of that where if you want to play paintball on DNR land, you're going to have to meet some requirements and pay some money - other use groups arn't going to let paintball use the land for free when they have to pay for it. Fortunately the fees paid by other uses don't appear to be extreme - roughly equal to what you'd pay for field fees at a commercial field. : I think that's the least likely of the alternatives though - given the number of incidents and the apparent minimal use of DNR lands for paintball at this point, I doubt the DNR will consider it worth their time. : I do, however, think it may behoove some paintball folks to get together and draft such a set of rules (or maybe steal them from the ones te US forestry service has) to present to states as an option when things like this come up in the future. : There's another point to be brought up here: There is a need for local paintball clubs. Local paintball clubs would be a much better entity for "maintaining" a set piece of pland for paintball play than an unorganized group or individual. Snow mobile trails are maintained in a similar manner - the DNR kicsk in some funds (from fees), the club kicks in the work. : - Chris