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Fall 2003 IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grants Awarded
For Immediate Release: September 23, 2003
Six IMBA mountain bike clubs will receive cash awards in the second round of 2003 IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grants. The $500 grants fund projects that promote environmental education and inspire conservation in the mountain biking community.
Forty grants totaling $20,000 have been distributed since the IMBA/CLIF Bar Trail Preservation Grants program was established in 2001.
The fall 2003 winners are:
Laramie Bicycling Network, Laramie, Wyoming - The Laramie Bicycling Network (BikeNet) will use grant monies to create trail education signs at Pole Mountain Recreational Area in Albany County. Local land managers asked BikeNet to help create signs that emphasize the importance of staying on the trail and sharing it with other users.
Gateway Off-Road Cyclists (GORC), St. Charles, Missouri - The grant will be used to establish an Adopt-A-Trail program enabling GORC to maintain the 24-mile Trace Creek section of the Ozark Trail.
York Area Mountain Bike Association, York Haven, Pennsylvania - Funds will help pay for a bridge to create a sustainable route across an eroding creek bed on a popular trail in York County's Spring Valley County Park.
Bowling Green High School Mountain Bike Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky - This IMBA Sprockids club will improve and expand a trail they established a year ago at Park Mammoth Resort. Funds will help purchase tools, build small bridges and post trail signs.
Crossroads Cycling Club, Statesville, North Carolina - The grant will help volunteers build a bridge connecting a recently completed four-mile trail to a planned five-mile loop at Lake Norman State Park in Piedmont. Work on the new trail cannot begin until the bridge is complete.
Minneapolis Off-Road Cycling Advocates (MOCA), Minneapolis, Minnesota - MOCA will use the funds to build a model trail in Theodore Wirth Park to demonstrate to the Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board that a properly built trail can be sustainable, safe and aesthetically pleasing.
Contact: Brandon Dwight, IMBA grants coordinator
brandon@imba.com, 303-545-9011end
