Advocacy

It's time for MWBA members to swap our trail work hard hats for our advocacy caps. You need to speak up. IMBA needs to hear your opinion. Your voice matters. For the first time in many years, there is a divide in the mountain biking community. Two respectable mountain bike advocacy organizations are not seeing eye to eye for mountain bike access in Wilderness areas. … [Read more...] about Please write to IMBA and share YOUR OPINION about Wilderness

As mountain bikers, we are naturally conservationists. We love being outdoors, we love nature, the fresh air, the smell of trees, the sound of the crunch of pine needles or leaves under our tires as we commune with nature in the way we love best, on a bike. There is nothing quite like traversing wide distances in the mountains while appreciating our surroundings. The … [Read more...] about MWBA’s Stance on Wilderness

Earlier this year, MWBA sent a few Board Directors to the California IMBA Summit at Mammoth Mountain. Of course we meant to post a report about it right away, but we got distracted with trail work and riding. So I asked Jenny Johnson a few questions about her experience at the summit to share with members... Why did you want to attend the IMBA Summit? I wanted … [Read more...] about IMBA Summit in Mammoth – Jenny Johnson

Largely due to the hard work of CORBA's President Steve Messer of and Jenny Johnson of MWBA, a joint commentary was submitted today to the U.S. Forest Service on the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Plan and Land Management Plan Amendment's "Need to Change" Analysis. Visit CORBA's web page for further detail regarding the process and please thank Steve for dedicating … [Read more...] about MWBA and CORBA submit joint comments on behalf of Mountain Bikers

As a result of a newspaper article in the Pasadena Star News, the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument proposal has spurred many questions from our members.  The article inaccurately states Judy Chu met with MWBA after the recent Baldwin Park meeting. MWBA has yet to have a personal audience with Chu but we are hoping to do so in the near future.  However, IMBA has met on … [Read more...] about MWBA & the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument

A number of us attended the Angeles National Forest's 5/30/2012 open house on proposed modifications to their Forest Plan.  This  is of high interest to our community, since it may involve increasing the amount of designated Wilderness in several Southern California National Forests, and removing mountain biking access from those areas.  Rather than repeating what is already … [Read more...] about National Forests Land Management Plan Amendments

Steve Messer and I attended this meeting, which, as the last one on this topic, was hosted by the Sierra Club at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. The meeting was opened by Don Bremner of the Forest Committee who immediately mentioned the Sierra Club mantra of “protecting the forest” and noted their close cooperation with the USFS and their trail work. He introduced Tom … [Read more...] about Station Fire and Angeles National Forest Update 05/23/2012