Advocacy

Fellow California Mountain Bikers, please go to the Advocacy page for details on the newly introduced State Wilderness legislation. As you know, mountain biking is prohibited in designated wilderness. IMBA California is carefully tracking this bill. For further details, check our Advocacy page. For an easy way to send in your comments, go to www.imba.com and click on the link under "Take Action." Takes seconds and your voice will be heard. Questions? Contact Jim Haagen-Smit, FATRAC Advocacy Coordinator. Thanks!!!

There is a new bill to propose new California State Wilderness including Henry Coe State Park. Please write your CA Assembly members, CA Senators and the sponsors of the legislation to modify the bill to either permit bikes in California Wilderness, or not designate these areas as Wilderness.

Assemblywoman Noreen Evans
Assembly District 7
Sate Capitol
Sacramento, CA 94249-0007
Room 315
916-319-2007
Fax 916-319-2107
Also to the Bill's Co-Sponsor Senator Pat Wiggins
Second Senate District
Room 4081
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 94249-0007
916-651-4002

Jim & I had the pleasure of going to Washington DC in March to attend the annual National Bike Summit. The biggest ever, 500 bicyclists attended, over 60 of those were IMBA members!

IMBA Trailbuilding School will be in Auburn April 4th and 5th

Help create new mountain biking trails such as the North Fork American Trail

Improve your favorite local trails.

Learn trailbuilding techniques and have fun!

The Subaru-IMBA Trail Care Crew will be in town to teach us all about designing & building sustainable trails. All area staff and trail enthusiasts are invited!

Friday, April 4, 2008, OR Saturday, April 5, 2008; 9 am to 5 pm
Friday’s class is targeted for Land Mangers, Saturday’s class is for volunteers, but attend whichever you can

FATRAC has registerd to participate in a unique recycling program sponsored by Clifbar and TerraCycle!!! Look for bags at our events to collect your wrappers (note about which wrappers qualify: Assorted energy bar wrappers, not Gu or shot-type product, not candy bar wrappers.)

Check out this link to the program: http://www.terracycle.net/cbb/cbb.htm

Here's the press release:

TerraCycle & Clif Bar Energy Bar Wrapper Brigade Sponsored by Clif Bar™