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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
*Day Hiker: Sweetwater Trail in Folsom Lake SRA*
*Tahoe Conservancy accepts $1.95 million grant to co-manage 
2.4 million-acre Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative*
​*Jordan Fisher Smith*: A civil action:
​Saving Nevada County’s ditch trails*
*TRPA fees benefit Bike Trail in El Dorado County*
*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*
*U. S. Congress approves Land and
Water Conservation Fund renewal*
*New interpretive panels about coyotes at Sterling Pointe 
Equestrian Staging area*
*Law Review: Landowner immunity from injuries
while on trails*
* NID moves forward with Scotts Flat Trail*
Eldorado National forest 1,038 volunteers provide $901,000 in service*
*Tahoe Donner Land Trust - 2018, a year building trails*
​*The Pacific Crest Trail: Jack Emery shares his experience
​hiking the famous trail*
*Hiking the Loch Leven Trail*
*Yuba City $2 million grant for pedestrian-bike path*​
​*Eldorado National Forest to consolidate, redraw districts*
*Opinion: Hidden Falls expansion project on Bell would benefit public*
*One of the prettiest photos of No Hands Bridge*
*Best spots to hike with a picnic in Lake Tahoe*
*Quarry Trail day hike*
*Folsom Lake Mounted Patrol event largest ever, and posts
more volunteer hours than ​any other group in FLSRA*
*TDLT Hike of the Month - Independence Lake*
*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 - April 25, 2019
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