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Vanishing Trails Montana, Part 1: Mountain Biking the Bitterroot Valley, Hamilton
The Bitterroot Valley in Montana offers excellent singletrack trails for mountain bikers to explore. Unfortunately, trails in this area have recently closed to bikes, and more are under threat of closure. Lee rides 'em while he can.
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Save Montana Bike Trails in the Bitterroot Valley – Comment Before November 18, 2018
The USFS in Montana is accepting comments on a travel plan that will potentially bar mountain bikes from 62.4 miles of trail in the Bitterroot National Forest.
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FATS Bike Trails in South Carolina Closed Due to Government Shutdown – Will Others Follow?
The FATS trail system in South Carolina is officially closed due to the shutdown of the United States Federal Government, and other trail systems are likely closed as well.
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An Inconvenient Fish
While mountain bikers work hard to build new trails, we constantly face losing existing ones as a result of development, lobbying by hikers and equestrians, forest fires and natural disasters, Wilderness designations, and other rule changes. One area, almost literally in my backyard, seems destined for closure due to a rather unexpected cause: the presence …
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Mountain Bike Trails Harming the Environment? Cut Down Live Trees to Keep Bikers Out
Photo: Matt Gephardt, KTVX. Courtesy abc4.com. Don’t get us wrong, we love the US Forest Service. The Forest Service is one of the biggest federal supporters of mountain biking and most of our favorite mountain bike trails around the US are located on Forest Service land. But methods used in a recent trail closure near …
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