[RC] Northern California equestrians please send letter for trails.... - Karen Sullivan
Hello Northern California trail riders, please take
minute to send an email to both Bob Gage at CSHA and Ukiah BLM encouraging
development of trails and horse camps, and please forward this on to riding
groups and other friends.
Both Cow Mountain and Cache Creek are incredible
places to ride and BLM needs to know horse use is increasing and more trails and
a camp are wanted. Other groups (Off road vehicle and Mountain bikes are
lobbying pretty hard for use on these areas). There are already almost a
million acres available in Lake Co., and Mendo Natl. Forest for ORV use; our
horse trails need to be protected! Even if you have not ridden these
areas; you might want to some day!
The proposed horse camp at Payne Ranch (Cache
Creek), is going to have access to miles and miles of trails which are
spectacular. Please note, this camp will be only approx 2 hours from San
Francisco, Sacramento area and Santa Rosa. It is currently a Wilderness study
area with Tule elk, bald eagles and the incredible Cache Creek Canyon.
Most
of the former Payne Ranch is rolling Oak Woodland
with many small lakes to picnic by and swim in.
Thanks! Karen Sullivan
CA State Horseman's Assoc The CSHA is
looking for information as to the amount of equestrians using the Cow Mtn and
Cache Creek areas. They want to know how many users, how often,
are horse numbers increasing and what people WANT (more
trails, horse camp, etc) and how many hours so as to strengthen their
requests with the BLM RAC plan. If you can help with this please
email Bob Gage at bgage@xxxxxxxx
Ukiah BLM is developing resource managment plan for
BLM lands in northern California, please send comments also to ukiahrmp@xxxxxxxxxx
Below is a letter I sent locally to riding friends, with some
points we need to make....
Hi Folks,
I am really hoping all of you who didn't make the
BLM meetings can send some quick comments to either of
the links provided below. This is our public
opportunity to tell BLM what we want, as they are developing a management plan
for BLM managed lands in Lake, Colusa and Mendocino counties. If we don't
make the effort,
we only have ourselves to blame when there aren't
enough trails....or we are sharing them with dirt bikes! Also
please send this along to other folks you know in
the horse community.
Also as a heads up, I have lately seen some big
Mountain Bike websites that are encouraging members to push
for mountain bike access on all of the Cache Creek
Wilderness study area....and you know those folks are organized and have a lot
of members..
BLM is looking at ALL comments;we need to keep
active and vocal for increased equestrian trials. Please use your own
words, and ideas, but there are some important points and things to mention or
add.
North Cow: -more loop trails on and off the
Glen Eden trail; Lake County side
-NO
DIRT BIKES (they already have 110 miles of trail on South Cow)
-get ride of Russian boar which have been deliberately released by local
landowner and are a
danger
to hikers and riders, and are destroying the oak woodland.
-regular
trail maintenance with a trail-cat, especially part past Goat Rock to top of
ridge
-connect up North Cow with a connector trail to Lake Mendocino
Cache Creek-recut portion of Redbud trail
between Baton Flat to Wilson Valley that is washed out
-year round access at Judge Davis trailhead;regular maintenance of trail with
trial-cat
-more
loop trails off Judge Davis trail to creek and back
-loop trails in Payne Ranch
-development of horse camp with individual pipe corrals for horses
-no off road vehicle activity
-reroute boggy section of trail through Thompson canyon
