{"id":5299,"date":"2014-06-05T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2014-06-05T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T17:35:54","slug":"presidents-message-the-station-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2014\/06\/05\/presidents-message-the-station-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"President’s Message: The Station Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20110401-Station_Fire_sign_burning_3\"<\/a>It has been almost five years since the Station Fire was set by arsonists\u00a0along\u00a0Highway 2 near the base of Mount Lukens. I was there on August 26, 2009\u00a0when\u00a0it\u00a0started. I was also there last week when the Station Fire General Closure Order expired. This opened up Strawberry Peak loop<\/a>, a trail system that has been the focus of several\u00a0different groups for the past\u00a0eighteen months. Though it’s a significant milestone,\u00a0there is much more to be done.<\/p>\n

\"Mountain<\/a>

Mountain Bike Magazine Station Fire<\/p><\/div>\n

This takes me back to a June 2010 Mountain Bike Magazine<\/a> article about\u00a0the Station Fire. While the magazine is no longer published, a copy of the story is archived on our web site. Reading it will help you realize what has been accomplished since.<\/p>\n

We all wish that things could have happened faster, but the assumptions of the article have held up.\u00a0Matt Lay\/Mount Wilson Bicycling Association<\/a>\u00a0(MWBA), and I\u00a0were featured in the article as\u00a0mountain bikers\u00a0on a mission to help restore the trails. Both CORBA and the MWBA\u00a0have lived up to that promise, with\u00a0many trails affected by the fire now open due (at least in part) to our efforts. We have to thank our volunteers, our members, and\u00a0REI<\/a> for their generous support, all of whom\u00a0helped make it\u00a0possible.<\/p>\n

Of course, mountain bikers were not alone in the effort to restore trails. Many nonprofit groups, trail user groups, and individual volunteers<\/a>\u00a0continue to make\u00a0significant contributions to restoration and maintenance. Professional crews including\u00a0Bellfree Contractors<\/a> and the LA Conservation Corps have also been involved.<\/p>\n

As mentioned, \u00a0the work is not\u00a0yet done. The general closure expired and was replaced by a much more manageable\u00a0list of closed trails<\/a>. Among them are several fire roads and at least two local mountain biking favorites: a section of the Gabrielino Trail and the Ken Burton Trail. CORBA\u00a0and the MWBA have pending work plans for both trails, and the Forest Service is working to reopen the fire roads. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

And there will always be a need to do trail maintenance, above and beyond restoration efforts.<\/p>\n

Trails\u00a0don’t maintain themselves. Join us.<\/p>\n

– Steve Messer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been almost five years since the Station Fire was set by arsonists\u00a0along\u00a0Highway 2 near the base of Mount Lukens. I was there on August 26, 2009\u00a0when\u00a0it\u00a0started. I was also there last week when the Station Fire General Closure Order expired. This opened up Strawberry Peak loop, a trail system that has been the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11,257,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299"}],"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=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5324,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions\/5324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}