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Mother Lode Trails is YOUR local non-profit trail information and resource website. Find up-to-the minute trail alerts, links and trail news for Placer, Sacramento,
El Dorado, Yuba and Nevada counties.
Trail News
​*Beat the heat: four spectacular high Sierra wild flower hikes*
*Preventing injury: one in 1,000 skiers are injured, one in 100 snowboarders, and one in 10 downhill cyclists.*
*Southern Cross Preserve on the North Fork American River permanently protected*
*World's largest medical study on mt biking shows alarming number of cyclists keep riding after concussion injuries*
*Snow thaw! Here are the Sierra campgrounds that are 
​finally opening for summer*
*Outside with Charlie: Pedaling beneath the pines*
Easy Mother's Day hikes to waterfalls in our area*
*Day Hiker: Sweetwater Trail in Folsom Lake SRA*
​*Jordan Fisher Smith*: A civil action:
​Saving Nevada County’s ditch trails*
*Day Hiker Review of Olmstead Loop Trail*
*FATRAC Bells-on-Bikes program instituted in FLSRA and ASRA*
*YBONC wins national mt. bike racing award*
*New equestrian parking planned for Rice's Crossing*
*Law Review: Landowner immunity from injuries
while on trails*
*Opinion: Hidden Falls expansion project on Bell would benefit public*
*New multiuse trail offers equestrians access
from Folsom to Cronan*
SPECIAL NEWS SECTION:
​ASSAULT AGAINST THE WILDERNESS ACT
News from around the nation regarding Bill HR1349, pushing to change the 1964 Wilderness Act, that would allow mt. bikes and other wheeled vehicles into our public designated Wilderness. 150 conservation groups and the International Mountain Bicycling Association are
firmly against this threat to our most vulnerable lands,
which consist of of less than 5% of our federal holdings.

*Now 150 groups saying "no" to adding wheeled vehicles into Wilderness as proposed in HR 1349 and S 2877*
*Extreme mountain biker group fights for wilderness access*
*US House candidate and pro mt. bike racer, "Do not
open up wilderness to bicycles."
*Mountain Biker Distortions On Wilderness Act in Sac Bee*
*McClintock’s Trojan horse of mountain bike bill
would put ‘wheels over wilderness’*
*Editorial Board LA Times – Keep mountain
bikes out of wilderness areas*
*Mountain Bikes Do Not Belong in Federal Wilderness*
*After voting for bill allowing bikes in the wilderness, Rep. Gianforte says he no longer supports it*
*Who Is Willing To Defend American Wilderness?*
*I mountain bike: Protect our Wilderness areas*
*Wilderness: Legislation in Congress presses for a
fundamental change in the rules*
*Mountain bikes in wilderness areas? No thanks,
says this mountain biker.*
*Do Bikes Belong in Wilderness Areas?*
*Written statement from IMBA re: HR 1349 to add
mt. bikes to Wilderness*
*Bikes in Wilderness Bill advances with no input from wilderness experts or 133 conservation groups opposed*
*Outside magazine Op-ed: 5 lies being told to get
mt. bikes into Wilderness*
*GOP lures some mountain bike groups in its push to
roll back protections for public land and trails*
*Bill to add mt. bikes into Wilderness to
Congressional Subcommittee*

Trail Alerts - August 17, 2019
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