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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~~
*​Mary West: Exploring Magnolia Ranch Trailhead*
*Sky Mountain in Tahoe National Forest purchased
for 6th grade science camp* 
*Self guided hikes with the Wild and Scenic Film Festival*
*Exploring Hidden Falls with Mary West*
*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*
State Parks recommends Nevada City’s Sugarloaf Mountain Trail 
to receive $216,411 for new trail*
*New Forest Supervisor selected for Lake Tahoe Basin*
*Exploring the Old Flume Trail*
*Southern Cross Preserve finds its forever home 
with Tahoe National Forest*
*Mary West: Hiking Loch Leven Trail*
Mary West: Exploring Emigrant Lake Trail*
*Another protected addition and trail easement in the
Bear River watershed by PLT*
*New bike video in the time of COVID-19*
*Cool hike: Donner Summit to Olympic Valley*
*California, U.S. Forest Service, Establish Shared Long-Term Strategy (MOU) to Manage Forests and Rangelands* 
*Mary West: Exploring Monkey Rock above Lake Tahoe*
*New bike patrol on the American River Parkway bike trails*
*Mt. Biking most disruptive to wildlife and ecology, according
​to California science report* 
*Exploring State Parks in Nevada County*
*Final Environmental Documents on Future of Auburn State Recreation Area Now Available - Auburn SRA
​General Plan/Resource Management Plan*
*Senate passes the Great American Outdoors Act,
major permanent public lands conservation bill*
*New 40-year operating license issued by FERC for Middle Fork American River project includes recreation*
*Dead Truck Falls hike on the American Canyon Trail*
*As BLM seeks comments to add E-bikes to non-motorized trails,
​other agencies are balking*
*Mother Lode Mountain Biking changes name to 
Mother Lode Trail Stewardship*
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*
*PEER Lawsuit to Restore E-Bikes Ban in National Parks*
​*5 Groups file lawsuit to Restore the  Ban on E-bikes in National Parks*
National Parks Trying To Get A Handle On E-Bikes*
​*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 - January 22, 2020

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