IMBA and CLIF Bar Announce 2006 Trail Grants
For Immediate Release
12-05-06
Contact: Mark Eller, Communications Manager
303-545-9011
IMBA and CLIF Bar are pleased to announce the winners of 2006 IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grants. Ten $500 grants have been awarded to support projects that preserve and enhance trail access, promote environmental education and inspire conservation in the mountain bicycling community.
The 2006 IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grant winners:
Laurel Highlands Off-Road Bicycle Association
The club will construct an informational kiosk at the Highland Park trail system near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where the club has constructed 12 miles of singletrack. The kiosk will feature a large map of the trail system, trail etiquette and volunteer information as well as the local ride schedule.
Four Seasons Bike And Trail Club
As part of a large volunteer trailbuilding project, the FSBTC will construct a family-friendly singletrack trail focused on environmental and safety education. The club will use the grant funds for interpretive signage along the trail and for activity sheets that families can take with them on the trail.
Central Iowa Trail Association
CITA will help improve the Center Trails in Des Moines, by providing navigational signage, a trailhead kiosk, and materials to close environmentally unsustainable trails in order to minimize resource impacts in this heavily utilized municipal trail system.
Kentucky Mountain Biking Association
KYMBA is working cooperatively with the Olmsted Parks Conservancy and Louisville Metro Parks to educate trail users on the nature and historic significance of the areašs woodlands, explain the ongoing environmental restoration work in the parks, and encourage trail users to remain on official trails to protect these valuable resources.
Pittsburgh Trails Advocacy Group
The club will partner with the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County to bring the legacy trail systems up to current sustainability standards. Needing more tools to outfit their growing volunteer base and continuing with their very successful Trail Etiquette Guide, PTAG will increase their volunteer capacity through this grant.
Muscatine Equestrian Mountain Bike Ecological Restoration
This shared-use trails coalition working in the central border region of Illinois and Iowa will use the grant to purchase tools for the restoration of trails in Loud Thunder State Park and increase community awareness of volunteer trail stewardship.
Yolo United Mountain Bikers
This group, based in Davis, California, is working to increase volunteer stewardship and expertise in the Yolo County area. The grant will allow the club to build a tool cache and trailbuilding library for future assistance at Lake Berryesa and Otis Ranch trail systems.
Brewster River Mountain Bike Club
Located in Cambridge, Vermont, the VMBA is improving the Smuggleršs Notch trail system with trail reroutes, drainage improvements, and bridges over streams and wetlands and will use the grant funds to expand their collection of tools and for the purchase of environmental restoration materials.
Northern Indiana Mountain Bike Association
NIMBA will outfit a growing volunteer base that is forming around the development of shared use trails at Potato Creek State Park, near South Bend. This is only the third Indiana State Park to allow mountain biking on singletrack trails, and the largest state park (3,800 acres) in northern Indiana.
Responsible Organized Mountain Pedalers
The club will construct a 60 foot long, handbuilt redwood bridge in the Soquel Demonstration State Forest to complete a four-mile loop trail that will provide public access and interpretive educational opportunities in 900 acres of riparian and redwood forest ecosystems.
About CLIF Bar: A leading maker of all-natural energy and nutrition foods, CLIF Bar & Co. has been an Above-and-Beyond IMBA corporate member since 1995, and has donated more than 100,000 CLIF Bars to fuel IMBA-affiliated trailbuilding and maintenance projects.
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