Our friends in Montana need our help. From the Montana Mountainbike Alliance website: "The Bitterroot National Forest is currently taking comments on the proposed Bitterroot Travel Management Plan. This TMP could close many trails currrently open to mountain bikes and will determine future mountain bike opportunities in the forest.
Please take the time to write and email a personal comment to the Forest Service. Yes it is a pain in the ass but spending 15 minutes of YOUR time is the most pro-acitve contribution you can make to the future of mountain bicycle access to public lands."
From Montana Mountain Bike Alliance:
If there ever was a time for the fat tire brother and sisterhood to pull
together – now is that time. No matter if you call Asheville, NC,
Downieville, CA or Stevensville, MT home, the most important and immediate
action that EVERYONE OF YOU can do today is to comment of the Bitterroot
Travel Management Plan in Montana before the November 5th deadline. Please
see the Bitterroot Comment Suggestions on the Montana Mountain Bike Alliance
website for more details.
http://www.montanamountainbikealliance.com/take-action/bitterroot-comment-deadline-11/5/09
It is vital that you weigh in on this particular TMP as bad bicycle policy
is spreading on OUR PUBLIC LANDS and your backyard could be next! May guilt
and pinch flats plague you for eternity if you do not comment! Apathy Sucks.
Don't depend on others to carry your load. Please take 15 minutes to write
your letter for future mountain biking opportunities. We need to bury the
Forest Service with comments. Pass it on – let's get it done. It only takes a sec to write an email...
What happens on public lands in another state could easily happen on public lands in our riding area.
This is an alarming development
Comment Period Extended to Nov 9th.
Your comments are needed. If you haven't sent your comments in regarding the Bitterroots, please do so before the Extended Nov 9th deadline.
The following is from our Evergreen friends to the north:
Here's the message from "inspired@montanamountainbikealliance.com"
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*Bitterroot Comment Period Extended to November 9th.*
The most important and immediate action that *EVERYONE OF YOU* can do today
is to comment of the Bitterroot Travel Management Plan before the November
9th deadline. Please see our Bitterroot Comment
Suggestions<http://www.montanamountainbikealliance.com/take-action/bitterroot-comment-deadline-11/5/09>page
for more details.
*No matter where you live it is vital that you weigh in on this particular
TMP as bad bicycle policy is spreading and your backyard could be next! *May
guilt, poison oak and pinch flats plague you for eternity if you do not
comment! Apathy Sucks <http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/apathy.htm>. Don't
depend on others to carry your load. This is APATHY FOR THE
BITTERROOT!<http://ravallirepublic.com/articles/2009/10/14/news/news27.txt>Please
take 15 minutes to write your letter for future mountain biking
opportunities on *your public lands*. The Forest Service needs to hear from
the cycling community no mater where you live.
If you have already submitted your comments - THANK YOU!
Montana Mountain Bike Alliance
P.O. Box 7023
Bozeman, MT 59771
www.montanamountainbikealliance.com
*"Whatever the social question, a bicycle should be part of the answer!"*
Share the love, send a letter
I have just sent my letter. Even though I have never ridden there, I was motived by the fact that might want to some day. It is easier to protect and existing trail system than to create a new one. Support a fellow mountain biker, write a letter. - Ted D
Road Trip!
Letter sent.
I'm thinking a road trip is in order. I've seen the Bitterroots and I would love to sample the goods. Maybe a big loop and swing up to the Kettle Crest area in northern WA?