{"id":6642,"date":"2016-09-12T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2016-09-12T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T18:24:45","slug":"canyon-trail-scv-trail-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/09\/12\/canyon-trail-scv-trail-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon Trail Sand Fire Trailwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, September 10, about 30 mountain bikers joined 50 or so HandsOn Santa Clarita volunteers to help with Sand Fire cleanup at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center.<\/p>\n<p>The HandsOn crew focused on the west end of the trail and the\u00a0parkland surrounding the Nature Center. \u00a0Meanwhile the SCV Trail Users headed up to the more heavily burned area at Walker Ranch campground.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2TTEdujlBlQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We split up and built eight debris check dams in drainages that lead into the streambed of Placerita Creek. After a fire, soil and ash denuded of vegetation, can\u00a0become major debris flows with a relatively small amount of rain. These debris flows do more damage to trails than anything else. We saw it in many areas of the Station Fire. I did an interview for Mountain Bike Action magazine, discussing the impacts of fire to trails.<\/p>\n<p>The eight debris check dams will help capture sediment and slow down flows before they cross the trail and enter the\u00a0canyon. They were constructed of native rock and sand bags filled\u00a0from the dry streambed, upstream of the check dams.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y6gI2G_9KEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the volunteers who came out to help, LA County for allowing us to help protect the trail we lobbied for access to, and to the SCV Trail Users for coordinating the effort.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re fulfilling our promise of being both responsible trail users, and stewards of our trails and public lands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday, September 10, about 30 mountain bikers joined 50 or so HandsOn Santa Clarita volunteers to help with Sand Fire cleanup at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center. The HandsOn crew focused on the west end of the trail and the\u00a0parkland surrounding the Nature Center. \u00a0Meanwhile the SCV Trail Users headed up to the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,252,257,17],"tags":[224,381,225,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642"}],"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=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6643,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}