Senate wants task force on guidebook issue

The state Senate Tourism Committee has voted to create a task force to identify problem areas statewide where visitors, lured by visitor guides, trespass on private or public property.

The task force would be made up of state tourism and land use officials, private landowners, and visitor guide publishers.

Senators amended a bill that would have potentially held authors and publishers of visitor guides liable when readers are injured or killed while trespassing on private or public lands.