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Summer 2003 IMBA/Koobi Club Assistance Grants Awarded
For Immediate Release: July 28, 2003
Four bicycle groups will receive cash awards in the second round of 2003 IMBA/Koobi Club Assistance Grants. The $500 grants support projects that preserve and enhance trail opportunities for mountain bikers.
The 2003 IMBA/Koobi Club Assistance Grants second-round winners are:
* New Orleans Metro Area Mountain Biking Organization, New Orleans, Louisiana – Grant funds will be used for tools, trail markers and an information kiosk at a multi-use trail at the Bonnet Carre Spillway. NOMAMBO also plans to use this grant to build more trail and increase public awareness about the first legal singletrack in the New Orleans metro area.
* Moab Trails Alliance, Moab, Utah – The Moab Trails Alliance will create educational plaques that inform trail users about the desert’s fragile ecosystem and the importance of staying on the trail. These plaques will be placed at the Bar M Loop, Klondike Bluffs, Blue Hills, Sovereign Trail and Fisher Mesa trailhead kiosks.
* Club Scrub, Hope Sound, Florida - In collaboration with Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Club Scrub will replace a dilapidated bridge. A new bridge will discourage trail users from riding and walking around the unsafe bridge and damaging sensitive wetlands.
* IMBA-UK, United Kingdom – A Koobi grant will support key first-year projects of IMBA-UK, which was formally launched in April 2003. IMBA-UK is developing a wide range of trail access and construction projects, as well as new membership and communication materials. More information about IMBA-UK can be found at: www.imba-uk.com
Colorado Springs-based Koobi is an innovative maker of high-performance bicycle saddles. Grant funds come to IMBA from the Koobi Freedom Foundation, which was established in 2002 to fund important access and trail advocacy projects.
Contact: Brandon Dwight, IMBA
brandon@imba.com, 303-545-9011end
