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Mother Lode Trails is YOUR local volunteer-run trail information and resource website. Find up-to-the minute trail alerts, links and
​trail news for Placer, Yuba and Nevada counties.
~~Selected Trail News~~
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Donner Party Hikes!
*Day Hiker: Glacier Meadow Loop - PCT off Donner*
History: The Survival of Independence Lake: Part 1*
Mary West: Stewarts Peak hike review*
Day Hiker: Manzanita Trail is worth the longer trek
​for view of Confluence*
*Visit the South Lake Tahoe Glen Alpine Trail - Mary West*
*Southern Illinois University Carbondale students mentored by
Tahoe National Forest Trails Manager, Paul Hart*
*In 2022, Dept. of Interior Invests $180 Million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Improve Wildfire Mitigation and Resilience*
*Mary West: the impossible beauty of the Tahoe East Shore Trail*
*5 areas in Placer County renamed to scrub
​racist term ​for Native women*
* Mt. biker found dead Downieville Downhill Trail *
*Lake Tahoe’s most popular trails get $45,000 for maintenance*
*Kudos to Grass Valley for acquiring the future
Wolf Creek Trail trailhead*
*$50,000 campaign launched for Meeks Ridge Trail for hikers
​and bikers*
*Placer CO Supervisors approve $1.22 billion budget with $8.8 million
​ in parks and trails projects*
*Vote Unanimous 7-0 to rename Negro Bar to Black Miners Bar*
*State Parks considering re-naming Negro Bar*
*$15.8 million Invested in Tahoe National Forest Projects*
*Exploring Big Trees Nature Trail - Mary West*
Everything Auburn: Endurance capital of the world hosts
some ofsport's biggest events*
*Canyons Endurance Runs By UTMB® Adds 100-Mile Distance to Event to Western States Trail Beginning In 2023*
*Any hike is a great hike on the South Yuba Trail above Nevada City*
*Placer County Parks and Open Space welcomes
Steve Gayfield as first Director*
*Mountain bike group to establish 600-mile trail with
the first 10 miles built just east of Truckee*
*Mary West: Exploring Canyon View Preserve*
Due to cheap grazing, 54 million acres of federal land managed by the BLM aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.*
Desolation Wilderness trails get help from
​Back Country Horsemen, Mother Lode Unit*
*Nevada Co Board of Supes approves funding for non-motorized Pines to Mines trail without addition of motorized e-bikes*
*Hiking theGranite Chief Wilderness,
Five Lakes Trail*
*PEER wins court case to restore ban on e-bikes
on non-motorized trails* 
*The new, larger CCC in the works under Biden administration*
*Mary West: Exploring the Yuba Rim 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 multi use 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.

*Court Ruling calls for Impact Study on e-bike rules because National Parks Park Service acted in an "arbitrary and capricious manner..."*
*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 - Oct. 4, 2024 

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