Midwest

IMBA Trail News
Volume 13, Number 2
Early Summer 2000

In Kansas, the Lawrence Mountain Bike Club has a new bike patrol.

The Missouri Parks and Recreation Association presented the Jackson County Mountain Bike Advisory Board with an award recognizing their efforts to promote mountain biking, trail maintenance, and positive relations with local land managers.

In Ohio, surf www.single-track.com for all the hip mountain biking news.

The Oklahoma Earthbike Fellowship (www.okearthbike.com) will attend a planning workshop for newly acquired National Forest in McCurtian County, OK. Check their site for a trail maintenance schedule. Thanks to Oklahoma's Team Body Bag who have done great work at Roman Nose, one of the state's most bike-friendly parks.

In Wisconsin, the first singletrack reroute of the John Muir trail in the Southern Kettle Moraine State Forest is open for riding. WORBA (www.worba.org) volunteers will continue reroutes in order to save the WDNR the expense of resurfacing with artificial materials.

A WORBA chapter is forming in Door County and is helping build new trails in Blue Mound State Park. WORBA was recently lauded as a DNR partner in a news release on Wisconsin's Land Legacy plans.

In Fort Hood, Texas, the Nature Conservancy is studying the impacts of recreation on the Golden Cheeked Warbler. The four-year analysis, which concludes in 2001, will be used to shape Fort Hood trail policies for mountain biking as well as motorized trail use.