Motorized Route Designation Suggestion Form

[carguy 1]

This is from our brothers to the North. It is not just about our riding areas, we ride north too. the areas mentioned in the following e-mail as well as our backyard are being discussed and we need to be heard.

we need to protect what we have and open new trails to make it safer for all of us.

Deadline is (Recieved by) September 10, 2007

Please download the attached .pdf file, complete and mail it today.

Thanks, John (carguy)

Dave,

I would appreciate if you would forward this important email & attachment to

the OC Dualies. Many of our members may be interested in these riding areas

here in Orange County and in nearby San Diego.

Anthony

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Several OC Dualies attended the San Juan Capistrano USFS meeting earlier

this week and met the senior officers of the Cleveland National Forest. The

Route Designation Process is underway. I submitted maps of "user-made"

routes to the USFS last year and they were included in the "existing

inventory" map. Now we have to convince the USFS to allow these trails to

remain open.

The Trabuco Ranger District (aka Saddleback Mountain/Silverado

Canyon/Santiago Peak) has the only dual-sport riding area in Orange County,

and many of us ride there at least occassionally. It is mostly fire roads,

but there are a large number of challenging & fun "user-made" routes that

parallel these fire roads. These are the steep hills and okay single-track

that parallel North Main Divide Road and the several fire roads that lead

down to Corona and Silverado Canyon from North Main Divide. What is nice is

that many of us can ride straight from our homes to these trails without

needing to load our bikes onto a truck or trailer. I for one would love to

see these trails become/remain open, because just sticking to the fire roads

is pretty dull.

The USFS officials indicated that they have had almost no input from

off-road & dual-sport motorcyclists about the Trabuco District, so they have

no support to keep these more challenging trails open. Further, they have

considered expanding the Wildomar OHV area but again have had little written

support from users.

I ask all of you who live in Orange & Riverside Counties to fill out just

page 2 of this brief Suggestion Form (skip page 1 unless you are also

familiar with the San Diego districts' proposals). It should take less than

2 minutes, and then put it in an envelope to Anne Carey, whose address is at

the bottom of page 2. I recommend that you make the following suggestions

on the form:

1. Open & maintain the existing, user-made single-track & double-track

routes that parallel North Main Divide Rd, Maple Springs Road, and the

various fire roads leading down to Corona from North Main Divide Rd.

2. Expand OHV & Dual Sport opportunities in the Trabuco Ranger District

3. Expand the Wildomar OHV area.

4. Mention that you primarily ride street-legal, off-road oriented

motorcycles.

Be sure to mention the Trabuco Ranger District prominently, because all

their focus seems to be on the other Districts in San Diego. If you can,

send a copy of your form to me so I can keep track, and use this info when I

meet with the Recreation Manager again.

Thank You,

Anthony Agoni

15 Grenache

Irvine, CA 92614

aaa@chariotfinancial.com

OC Dualie.

Suggestion_Form__USFS.pdf