Mountain bike conservation covers short range improvements such as trail maintenance, and longer range efforts such as conservation campaigns.  It is believed that a conservation-oriented Sierra Club mountain biking section could be a positive educational force, both in terms of respect for other users and respect for the natural environment

Conservation Programs

• Trail maintenance
• Trabuco Wild!
• Wilderness and Protected Areas

Program Descriptions

Trail Maintenance

 The MBC works with Traisl4All, SHARE, ETI, the Warrior Society on scheduled trail maintenance events.  It is the goal of the MBC to reverse any destructive impacts and demonstrate that mountain biking is a sustainable and environmentally sound activity.

 

Trabuco Wild!

The Mountain Bike Committee maintains strong alliances with the Angeles Chapter Conservation Committee, and with local CCs as needed to deal with specific issues.  For example, the Mountain Bike Committee is working with the Orange County CC, the SAMTF and local community organizers on the Riverside to Orange County transportation corridor campaign.  This will be a new conservation campaign outside the scope of the CWHC effort or the Boxer wilderness bill.  Description of Trabuco Wild activities

 

Wilderness and Protected Areas

Despite the fact that bicycles are excluded from wilderness areas, the MBC supports the goals of the Sierra Club, and provides public endorsement for proposed Wilderness areas.  Internally, the MBC attempts to work out reasonable boundary adjustments and/or modifications to can be made.  In areas which could not or should not become wilderness areas because there is significant mountain bike riding, the MBC works to ensure that the land and its resources are protected with a non-Wilderness designation.