It takes more than just volunteer labor to create great mountain bike trails. A little cold, hard cash goes a long way toward new trail building and maintenance.
Construction is underway on a new mountain bike trail system in Sedona, Arizona known as the Western Gateway. The first sections will open in March, and local advocates are holding a massive raffle to raise funds.
Matt and Jeff talk about the most recent mountain bike advocacy news including pending bills, trail recovery in California, and a new model for organizing mountain bikers.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund, a high revenue opportunity for MTB trails stalled out in the US Senate, but senators are hopeful for a re-authorization soon.
Vermont's state-level mountain bike organization is setting a new example for advocacy, resulting in dozens of miles of new trail every year. Other states are looking to follow their lead.
In the second part of our series on trail building, we talk to COMBA, IMBA, VMBA, and EMBA about how they spend money on trails after it has been raised.
