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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.
~~Selected Trail News~~
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*ASRA Codfish Falls day hike with Mary West*
*Nevada County Adopts BYLT’s Hirschman Pond Trail*
*Mary West: Exploring the Olmstead Loop Trail*
*Senate confirms first Native American to lead National Park Service*
*Mary West: Exploring Deer Creek Tribute Trail*
*No Hands Bridge a landmark on Western States Trail –
​and an easy 2-mile hike*
BYLT and State Parks ‘cobble’ funding together for
Independence Trail restoration*
*Nevada Co Board of Supes approves funding for non-motorized Pines to Mines trail without addition of motorized e-bikes*
*9 Ways to Explore Lake Tahoe by trail - Lonely Planet*
*Hiking theGranite Chief Wilderness,
Five Lakes Trail*
*Walking with your dog — Head for the hills*
Walking and hiking with your dog in Nevada County*
*Sac region planning a bike ‘freeway’ system on trails from the American River, Sutter Buttes, and the Yuba River.*
*PEER wins court case to restore ban on e-bikes
on non-motorized trails* 
*Placer CO to form new Parks and Open Space department*
Brand NEW Pacific Crest Trail Interactive MAP!*
*The new, larger CCC in the works under
Biden administration*
*Helen Harvey recognized with Gold Country Trails Council
​ 2020 Top Hand Award*
*Mary West: Exploring the American Canyon Trail*
*Mary West: Exploring the Yuba Rim Trail*
*Exploring the Old Flume Trail*
*Hiking Loch Leven Trail*
*As BLM seeks comments to add E-bikes to non-motorized trails,
​other agencies are balking*
E-bike industry "advisory group" violated federal law in secretly lobbying the National Park Service*
*PEER Lawsuit to Restore E-Bikes Ban in National Parks*
​*5 Groups file lawsuit to Restore the  Ban on E-bikes in National Parks*
​*Jordan Fisher Smith*: A civil action:
*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 - Jan. 16, 2022

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