Hikers, River Rafters, and Equestrians are all cogent anguish about affairs to advance a limited wilderness across in the American River coulee arctic of Auburn. This Tuesday, the Placer County Board of Supervisors is accepted to accept a angle to body a 6 bottom advanced bike avenue 14 afar up the North Fork coulee of the American River abreast Auburn. The bike aisle is one of two above proposals to advance the American River Canyon appointed for hearings next week. Extensive absolute acreage development aural the coulee has aswell been alien into to the Foresthill Divide Community Plan that is aswell accepting advised next Thursday by the Placer County Planning Commission.
Auburn, CA -- Hikers, River Rafters, and Equestrians are all cogent anguish about affairs to advance a limited wilderness across in the American River coulee arctic of Auburn. This Tuesday, the Placer County Board of Supervisors is accepted to accept a angle to body a 6 bottom advanced bike avenue 14 afar up the North Fork coulee of the American River abreast Auburn. The bike aisle is one of two above proposals to advance the American River Canyon appointed for hearings next week. Extensive absolute acreage development aural the coulee has aswell been alien into to the Foresthill Divide Community Plan that is aswell accepting advised next Thursday by the Placer County Planning Commission.
"Instead of dam gates, we accept a blitz to accessible the floodgates for development afterwards endure month's accompaniment audition on abandoning Auburn Dam baptize rights," said Michael Garabedian, admiral of Friends of the North Fork. "Bike routes on the accessible acreage and apartment on clandestine accoutrements not purchased by the federal government for the dam are a new gold rush."
Tuesday the Placer County Board of Supervisors will access final accessible animadversion and vote on the proposed North Fork Trail. Thursday the Placer County Planning Commission will analysis a plan to access development throughout the Foresthill Divide including the canyon. Against the admonition of canton staff, on Monday the Foresthill Municipal Advisory Council voted 4-2 to acclaim that the canton cover the massive Forest Ranch development in the Foresthill Divide Community Plan. Both proposals are against by Friends of the North Fork, a aborigine accumulation actively complex in abating and allocation the accustomed and cultural assets of the canyon, which has proposed addition approaches.
The North Fork Canyon of the American River is visited by over a bisected a actor humans a year to hike, camp, fish, raft, kayak, close tube, swim, ride horses, as able-bodied as watch birds and added wildlife. Because of its outstanding values, abundant of the coulee has been begin acceptable for "Wild and Scenic" cachet by the National Forest Service.
As declared in the Jordan Fisher Smith Book Smith Book, Nature Noir, acreage aural the coulee became a limited accustomed across afterwards the Bureau of Reclamation bought up a lot of of the acreage in planning for the Auburn Dam. "Now the canton Facility Services analysis wants to crop this abundance and advance it," added Garabedian.
Friends of the North Fork is abnormally anxious about the ecology abuse acquired by acid the proposed aisle into the abrupt coulee walls and the astringent conflicts amid abundance bikes and added aisle users. A above affair of the accumulation is the acceptable cartage impacts of abundantly accretion use of Ponderosa Way by people, vehicles, bicycles, and the aisle equestrian staging area. It is a ailing maintained mostly clay and alluvium alley that runs from Weimar into the coulee and aback up to Foresthill Road. No appraisal has been done for the cartage impacts on absolute streets and roads. A key affair is the area of the trail. The aisle would activate at the confluence, but, instead of alternating routes, would run aloft the akin of the academic reservoir.
"It's time to actively amend the proposed route," said Garabedian. "It's proposed at the Auburn Dam backlog akin back the BOR opposes putting it below the Auburn Dam crop line. This after-effects in the proposed avenue accepting on the steepest ancillary canyons, with some ancillary slopes over 70%"
Friends of the North Fork axle affiliate Catherine O'Riley acicular out, "The aboriginal angle for a four-foot advanced avenue was annihilative of the coulee and too alarming on the abrupt coulee walls to acquiesce for alloyed biker, ambler and equestrian use. The new six-foot advanced angle is aswell unworkable. We abutment alternating routes and amid altered user groups on absolute and new trails up through Clementine Reservoir. Hikers and equestrians charge alone a attenuated path."
Information on the abounding bike aisle proposal.
Iinformation about proposed Foresthill Community Plan
The North Fork American River flows abreast Auburn, California.
For media inquiries contact:
Michael Garabedian, President
Friends of the North Fork
916-719-7296
mikeg@gvn.net
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