Eldorado Lawsuit Gives Us Bragging Rights

ANOTHER MILESTONE IN ELDORADO TRAVEL MANAGEMENT




SACRAMENTO, CA (May 31)—A national trail-based recreation group and state off-highway vehicle organizations are applauding a recent legal ruling involving the Eldorado National Forest. The ruling comes in the latest of preservationist lawsuits spanning several decades.



Senior U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton issued his ruling on May 26, 2011, that largely upholds the Eldorado travel management decision, but finds the Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act and certain Forest Plan standards in authorizing access through a handful of meadows and failing to more thoroughly consider ephemeral streams. Each of these issues focused on alleged impact ... read more on BlueRibbon's website here.

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Charity Christmas Auction in Full Swing on eBay

BlueRibbon is building up the trail-saving money with YOUR help in our on-going Christmas auction right now.  Tons of goodies and a furious bunch of bidders.  :)  It's all fun; and it's all for a good cause.

Be sure to get in the game and check out the auction at: http://donations.ebay.com/charity/charity.jsp?NP_ID=25971

And BE SURE to follow my new blog as this one is shutting down.
Del Albright's new landuse blog: http://delalbright.blogspot.com/

The Trail Party formed to help Voters for Access

TRAIL PARTY Formed to Help Off Road Voters

Be an "ORV" -- Off Road Voter.

The current election can seem a little overwhelming, time consuming and maybe even a little confusing to sit down and read up on all the candidates and propositions. Don Amador, noted Recreation Advocate has made it easy and has done all the reading and put together an easy to use "Trail Party Voters Guide". Essentially it is comprised of the candidates that are OHV friendly and made the propositions a piece of cake to decide on.  The Trail Party is already taking on national importance in helping to de


Go here to take a peek: Trail Party Voters Guide

Roger Norman with Lance Clifford in Pole Starter at Baja 1000

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Roger Norman drew the pole (starting) position for the Baja 1000 with Lance Clifford, my pal and owner of Pirate4x4.com, as his co-driver. Wow.

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This should be a wild race as they plan to Ironman the whole thing.  Whew....GET IT!!!  Read more at http://rogernormanracing.com/roger-norman-draws-first-position-and-plans-to-ironman-2010-tecate-score-baja-1000

Del

Access Army Times October Newsletter

Go here to see/read/download and share the Access Army Times (October newsletter) with landuse and access info from coast to coast. Thanks to our main man, Todd Ockert. Air Warrior King, for putting this together.

http://www.delalbright.com/Access/Access-Army-Oct-2010-Newsletter.pdf

Reno4x4.com Wins Club Challenge in Reno, NV

Reno4x4.com Wins the Club Challenge at Ultra4 Stampede

Kickin' it with 4 other clubs, the hard-charging wheelers from Reno4x4.com won the Club Challenge in Reno at the Off Road Innovations (ORI, Reno) Club Challenge for best prepared rig for a trail ride.  Battling with the Motherlode Rockcrawlers of Jackson, CA, the Arkansas Crawlers, the Trailbusters 4x4 Club of Solano County, and the Friends of the Rubicon, Reno4x4.com took home the trophy. :)

Actually, the trophy was a free full weekend of wheeling and camping at the famous Exit 28 Motorsports as sponsored by ORI of Reno (http://www.orireno.com/).
Read and download the press release here at http://www.delalbright.com/Misc/club_challenge_winners.html

It was fun for all.  We look forward to next year.
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