CLIF Bar and IMBA Award $3,000 in Grants

For Immediate Release
05-20-04
Contact: Brandon Dwight, IMBA grants coordinator

303-545-9011

Six IMBA mountain bike clubs will score cash awards to kick start local trail projects thanks to the 2004 IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grants. The $500 grants are focused on projects that promote environmental education and inspire conservation in the mountain biking community.

Forty grants totaling $20,000 have been distributed since the IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grants program was established in 2001.

The 2004 first-round winners are:

Guelph Off-Road Bicycling Association (http://www.gorba.ca), Ontario, Canada - The club will use grant monies to design and construct a wetland bridge in the Guelph Lake Conservation Area located about one hour west of Toronto.

Michigan Mountain Bike Association (http://www.mmba.org/), Holly/Flint Chapter, Holly, Michigan - The grant will be used to help restore trails and construct sustainable water crossings in Seven Lakes State Park.

CoMotion, High Point, North Carolina - Funds will help pay for an educational kiosk in Rich Park near Mocksville, North Carolina. The club will also build a small bridge to improve access for a local elementary school.

Mountain Trails Foundation (http://mountaintrails.org/), Park City, Utah - The 10-year-old trails group will use grant funds to improve signs on the Park City Town Loop.

Iowa Coalition of Off Road Riders (http://www.icorrmtn.org), Iowa City, Iowa - ICORR will use the funds to re-route an eroded section of the popular Cannon's Run trail at Sugar Bottom Recreation Area in North Liberty, Iowa.

Redding Mountain Biking Club, Redding, California - Volunteers will install signs on the newly restored Mule Mountain Pass trail to encourage responsible riding.

IMBA affiliated clubs are invited to apply for the second round of 2004 IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation grants. Proposals are due by September 1. For more information visit:

http://www.imba.com/resources/grants/clifbar_grants.html

A leading maker of all-natural energy and nutrition foods, Clif Bar Inc. has been an Above-and-Beyond IMBA corporate member since 1995 and has donated more than 60,000 CLIF BARS to fuel IMBA-affiliated trailbuilding and maintenance projects.