{"id":317,"date":"2010-04-12T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=317"},"modified":"2010-04-12T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T15:26:12","slug":"setback-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2010\/04\/12\/setback-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Setback in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtragmag.com\/blogarific\/mountain-biking-ruins-solitude-for-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">t<\/a>he <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/montana\/article_2d23d112-4280-11df-84b8-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story\" target=\"_blank\">Billings Gazzette<\/a>, as of May 1st it will be illegal to ride 150 miles (0ut of 170) of trail in Montana&#8217;s Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area, which includes the Gallatin Crest Trail. A judge has declared that mountain biking ruins the opportunity for solitude for others, and has interpreted that as grounds to restrict mountain bike access to this Wilderness Study Area.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirtragmag.com\/blogarific\/mountain-biking-ruins-solitude-for-others\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dirt Rag<\/a>&#8216;s blog\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/montana\/article_2d23d112-4280-11df-84b8-001cc4c03286.html?mode=story\" target=\"_blank\">Billings Gazzette<\/a> story.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re ever wondering why it is important to support mountain biking advocacy, consider the challenges Montana mountain bikers are currently facing. This legal decision could be precedent-setting, resulting in trail closures around the country in areas deemed &#8220;eligible&#8221; for wilderness designation, even though they have not yet been designated wilderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story in the Billings Gazzette, as of May 1st it will be illegal to ride 150 miles (0ut of 170) of trail in Montana&#8217;s Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area, which includes the Gallatin Crest Trail. A judge has declared that mountain biking ruins the opportunity for solitude for others, and has interpreted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}