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Greg Mumm
BRC Executive Director
- Phone: 208-237-1008
- Fax: 208-237-9424
- brgreg@sharetrails.org
Brian Hawthorne
BRC Public Lands Policy Director
- Phone: 208-237-1008 (x102)
- Fax: 208-237-9424
- brbrian@sharetrails.org
Paul Turcke
Esq.
- Phone: (208) 331-1800
- Fax: (208) 331-1200
- pat@msbtlaw.com
Don Amador
BRC Western Representative
- Phone: (925) 625-6287
- Fax: (925) 625-5309
- brdon@sharetrails.org

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RECREATION GROUP SUPPORTS ACCESS PROTECTIONS IN NOR CAL WILDERNESS BILL

July 12th, 2006

Contacts:

Don Amador, BRC Western Representative
- Phone: (925) 625-6287
- Fax: (925) 625-5309
- Email: brdon@sharetrails.org
- Webpage: http://www.sharetrails.org/staff/#DonA

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Dale Warmuth - representative for the Eureka-based Far West Motorcycle Club - points to the Mad River Buttes region that he wants designated as a Backcountry Recreation Area.
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Don Amador (left), BRC, and Dale Warmuth (right), FWMC, stand by entrance to the Bug Creek Trail - a trail they want preserved for OHV and mountain bike use in the Mad River Buttes area.
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WASHINGTON, DC (July 19) - The BlueRibbon Coalition (BRC), a national trail-based recreation group, today expressed support for new access and recreation provisions incorporated into a Northwestern California Wilderness Bill (HR233). The new version of the legislation will recognize off-highway vehicle (OHV) and mountain-bike (MTB) use as legitimate recreational activities on federal lands by codifying said use in statute on a majority of routes affected by the proposal.

Don Amador, Western Representative for the BlueRibbon Coalition, said, "I believe protecting fishing access in the Park, keeping OHV and MTB trails open and deleting non-wilderness areas such as the Mad River Buttes proposal has improved this piece of legislation."

The legislation that will designate over 200,000 acres in Northern California will also protect the rights of beach fishermen to access the coastline in Redwood National Park.
In addition, the bill will codify existing equestrian, OHV, and MTB recreation in the Cow Mountain area near Ukiah, California.

"This bill is not perfect and many recreation groups are disappointed that the reopening of Black Sands Beach in the King Range was not part of the legislation. Also, we are disappointed that the popular Backcountry designation did not get formally adopted. However, the fact that many of our OHV and MTB routes are being codified in statute is a clear acknowledgement that a Backcountry alternative to Wilderness is a valid and popular concept," Amador concluded.

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The BlueRibbon Coalition is a national recreation group that champions responsible use of public and private lands, and encourages individual environmental stewardship. It represents over 10,000 individual members and 1,200 organization and business members, for a combined total of over 600,000 recreationists nationwide. 1-800-258-3742. www.sharetrails.org

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