MMBA's Mission:
To preserve, protect, and promote mountain bike access and diverse
riding opportunities on Montana's public lands through education,
communication, and unified action.
To preserve, protect, and promote mountain bike access and diverse
riding opportunities on Montana's public lands through education,
communication, and unified action.
"Whatever the social question, a bicycle should be part of the answer"
Advocacy
Your help is urgently needed to continue mountain biking in the Lionhead RWA in Gallatin National Forest near West Yellowstone. Public comment period ends July 18th. For specific trail information and to participate in the letter writing campaign go to Action AlertMore challenges to mountain biking on Montana's public lands include:
* A Forest Service Region One policy will ban bicycles from Recommended Wilderness areas. This policy could eliminate access to up to nearly 1,000 miles of singletrack that has been ridden and enjoyed for the last twenty years with no guarantee of ever becoming a Congressionally designated Wilderness. This policy, unique only to the Region One area, is the most restrictive in the U.S.
* A lawsuit filed against the Forest Service by the Montana Wilderness Association, Greater Yellowstone Coalition and subsequently, the Wilderness Society, concerning the Gallatin National Forest Travel Plan in the Hyalite Porcupine Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area. If successful, an outcome of the lawsuit could ban bicycles along the iconic Gallatin Crest and would include Emerald Lake, Hyalite Lake and Blackmore trails south of Bozeman and Porcupine and Buffalo Horn trails near Big Sky.
* The Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership Strategy, a proposal being forwarded to the Forest Service by a group of timber companies and wilderness groups that trades logging timber for the small town mills in exchange for the support of 573,000 acres of new Wilderness in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge forests. Cyclist were not included for input to this plan and the 16 proposed Wilderness areas cuts the heart out of much of the cherished high alpine riding in Southwest Montana. Again the end result would be a tremendous loss of bicycling on trails in special places. In the spirit and success of the High Divide Agreement, the B-D "Partnership" needs to be reworked to include quiet, human powered bicycles.
MMBA will also highlight success stories like the High Divide Agreement as examples of diverse user groups working together for more riding opportunities.
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