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Advocating for Mountain Biking in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
ROMP encourages mountain bikers to take part in trail maintenance and construction, participate in land manager meetings and master plans, ride with respect for the land and other trail users, and have fun! |
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Los Gatos Museums Gallery is hosting a special one night exhibit:
BIKE NITE!
Terri Hill is known for her bicycle paintings.
Come view her collection of bikes and meet the artist.
Friday Night Champagne Reception
October 9, 5-8pm
Los Gatos Museums Gallery, 24 N. Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, CA 95030
(next door to Smith & Hawken)
Terri Hill
Designer:Hill
Web--> http://www.designerhill.com
facebook--> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Terri-Hill-Fine-Art-in-Watercolor/47824587457
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With the Schwarzenegger administration preparing to close up to 100 state parks, California's top environmental groups are quietly putting together a ballot campaign they hope will turn the bad news into a renaissance for the state's long-struggling park system.
The Nature Conservancy, National Audubon Society, Trust for Public Land, Save-the-Redwoods League and others have raised nearly $1 million and conducted months of polling toward a November 2010 ballot measure that would increase vehicle license fees by $15 a year to fund parks.
from Mercury news
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From Santa Rosa Press Democrat: by Christa Jeremiason
From foggy Del Norte Coast Redwoods to sun-splashed South Carlsbad State Beach, nearly every state park (was packed Labor Day.)
For many families, the parks offer an affordable vacation in times of economic uncertainty. They're safe, accessible outlets for recreation, repositories of history and culture, reflections of California's grandeur. About 75 million people visit state parks annually, and they generate billions of dollars of economic activity.
And, inexplicably, they're endangered.
Beginning in the next week or two, the state will begin closing as many as 100 parks because shortsighted, feckless officials are unwilling to save them. The closures could ultimately cover almost half of the state park system.
The savings: $14 million.
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A couple of years ago we had the Lick Fire and I tried to make an MTB Fire Survey Patrol program so we could ride in the burn zone while it was still closed. We did manage to form up something and do some rides, discover new trails, and have fun, but the program was really a dud. I admit it. Still, it was a new thing to try.
Now we are facing a possible closure of the park. I doubt it will close. If it does close, it would be good to be part of a patrol program so you can be in there legitimately, and not run when you see Cameron coming around the bend.
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