From Yuba Expeditions: TRAIL SHUTTLES AVAILABLE SPRING ‘08 (we hope)
“The Forest Service will start limiting mountain bike use in the Downieville area, starting with YUBA Expeditions. The FS wants to impose a 3% tax on YUBA’s gross revenues from shuttles and bike demos, which is a sizeable amount of the net profit. The funds collected under this program will be used to pay a FS employee to administer the program and to conduct “user-conflict” studies, not for needed trail maintenance or rehabilitation- that task is left to our local non-profit, the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship. Under this agreement, the FS would be able to dictate how many customers YUBA caters to in a season, as well as define the days and times of shuttle operations. These new fees and restrictions will no doubt force YUBA to raise prices and reduce the number of trips, which could eventually lead to YUBA closing it’s doors. We’ll keep you posted on how this whole thing pans out, but for now we remain optimistic and are hoping for another great season in Downieville.” www.yubaexpeditions.com
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March 17, 2008 at 11:24 am |
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