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YubaNet.com:

A recent agreement between the National Park Service and mountain biking interests may inadvertently throw millions of acres of proposed wilderness open to bike trails, according to a letter released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). PEER is asking the NPS Director to clarify that wild lands eligible for wilderness designation are off-limits to bike trails.

On April 21, 2005, NPS Director Fran Mainella announced a “General Agreement” between her agency and the International Mountain Biking Association (IMBA). While in some respects that agreement is an improvement over the haphazard way that some parks allowed bicycle use on park trails, the agreement makes no provision to protect millions of acres of park backcountry that is recommended or proposed as wilderness. Already, mountain bicycle groups have proposed a new 25-mile trail through recommended wilderness in Voyageurs National Park.

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