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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
*Hike the Royal Gorge trails, include "Thauvette's Frolic*
*Buttermilk Bend Trail on the Yuba*
*Cronan Ranch in Pilot Hill - low-stress
destination for local hikers*
*New Hidden Falls trailhead? Regional park access effort green-lighted by Placer supes*
*Forest Hill Divide Loop Trail...connects*
*New multiuse trail offers equestrians access
from Folsom to Cronan*
*Ranger veteran Scott Liske retiring from
Auburn State Recreation Area*
*SMUD to upgrade campgrounds, trails, and
day use areas in Crystal Basin Recreation Area*
*NID talks trails at Scotts Flat reservoir*
*What to expect when trekking the Buttermilk Bend in
South Yuba River State Park*
*From Folsom Telegraph GM: Take it slow
on the Folsom trails.*
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 - July 13, 2018
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