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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
*Happy trails: Latest edition of hiking the American River Canyon 
​features 33 trails, new photos*
Volunteers sought for this summer in Desolation Wilderness*
*Granite Chief Wilderness settlement over gondola construction calls for Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows to provide $450,000
to the Truckee Donner Land Trust*
*Safety on the trail - yes hiking, no mountain biking, while pregnant*
*Review: Hike or ride your horse
​on the Pioneer Express Trail to Avery's Pond*
*6,000 acre new Santa Cruz BLM National Monument  public comments
open until March 19, 2020*
*$3.4 million approved for trail projects eastern Placer CO*
*Marin cyclists linked to illegal trail fight vandalism charges*
*Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship receives $360,000 trails grant*
*Mother Lode Mountain Biking changes name to 
Mother Lode Trail Stewardship*
* AmeriCorps teams work with BYLT on new Sugarloaf Mountain Trail*
*BLM California welcomes new State Director, Karen Mouritsen*
*Perfect hike in the winter (or summer),
Clementine Trail ​in Auburn SRA*
E-bike industry "advisory group" violated federal law in secretly lobbying the National Park Service*
*NPS scraps industry-stacked advisory panel that advocated
privatizing services at campgrounds*
*Truckee Donner Land Trust's big progress on trails in 2019*
*PEER Lawsuit to Restore E-Bikes Ban in National Parks*
​*5 Groups file lawsuit to Restore the  Ban on E-bikes in National Parks*
*Hike of the month: Tahoe Pyramid Trail, new section*
*Day Hiker: Stagecoach Trail in Auburn State Recreation Area*
National Parks Trying To Get A Handle On E-Bikes*
*Hike of the month: new Donner Lake Rim Trail*
​*Jordan Fisher Smith*: A civil action:
*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 - March 29, 2020

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