John, I understand your concerns. I've spoke with the BLM in supporting one of their trail building/reconstruction efforts and it will be part of the registration process as an opt-in/opt-out. As far as all the political crap, I have no desire to push for something unless the BLM or local communities want to take it upon themselves to make it known that we supported the local communities with a donation to the BLM or whatever else we came up with. My initialy idea was to support the BLM in a trail building effort, which directly effects us and everyone else out there riding the trails.
If you'd like to head up a more political awareness for our event, I'm not opposed to it, and I'll support you and anyone else that wants to be involved, but I'd want to discuss it before moving forward with contacting the City Managers, County commissioners, etc. I've already spoke with both, and they seem like nice folks and willing to help where they can. But, before we go crazy, we need to discuss further on here or through email or phone.
I think it's important to support our local trail systems, lobby for multi-use trails, and do trail clean-ups, etc. It's possible that we get the local papers, television, Utah State Parks, BLM, etc involved and big to-do about us contributing, but quite frankly I'm not in it for recognition, which is what people tend to want out there. If they, without us asking, want to post a press release or short article about it, that's fine with me.
Chris
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