All-
Just a reminder that CCMA is STILL CLOSED. Until the legal process is completed, please remind your friends and neighbors who MAY be taking a ride there, that they will be cited if caught within the boundaries of CCMA.
Please review the notice that BLM has sent out.
Dave Pickett
LAO D36
Everyone is invited - especially you D36′ers and the youth of our sport - to join us for the 12th running of the Funky Chicken.
Cheers!
Adam Achepohl
ETRA Race Director 2011
541-968-1664
endoquest@99w.us
Event Flyer - 2011fcofficialflyer.pdf
Entry Form - 2011fcofficialentry.pdf
Online Entry - click here
Please review the official response from EPA Reg 9 concerning OHV study at Clear Creek.
D36 and partners will explore possible options.
Dave Pickett LAO
2011 Phantom Youth Hare Scrambles Makeup Race Cancelled
Regretfully after reviewing all information to reschedule the Phantom Youth Races that were postponed in March, Ghostriders MC had to make the difficult decision to not hold the make-up race. The financial hardship on the club was going to be too great to bear. We had hoped that some of the costs already paid would carryover to a new date. This was not the only reason that drove the decision, but definitely the one hurdle we could not overcome and have the ability to host the Phantoms in 2012.
We hope that the racers and families of District 36 Youth CC Series understand that this is not the direction our club wanted to take, and look forward to seeing all of you at the 2012 Phantoms.
Ghostriders Motorcycle Club
www.ghostridersmc.net
The 2011 D36 Outlaw HS on Sept 17-18 as been postponed for D36 Series only at this time.
The AMA National Outlaw HS (on same dates) has been cancelled.
The club is dealing with a new paved road and BLM Insurance demands (due to crash down south last year) and are trying to keep event going or find a new location.
Watch for updates as they are learned.
Kraig Traum
During the month of May, those with current D36 cards will receive 50% off the activation fee (new accounts only) when they buy SPOT - which comes with a $50 rebate if you purchase it during between May 1 - July 31, 2011!!!
Contact Kraig Traum - d36moose@att.net - to get the information for the discounted activation.
Rebate info below.
spot-2-rebate-form-51-73111-rev.pdf
Here are the Tucker Buck Winners from the remaining 2011 Spring Events:
3/13 – E Street HS
Cheyanne Sanford
3/19 – Phantom HS
Paul Van Horsen
3/27 – Toulon Two-Step H&H
Jeff Osterback
4/3 – Sawmill Enduro
Scott Moore
4/16 - Shasta Dam GP
Zachary Kerling
Congratulations!!! You should be receiving your certificates within the next 7-10 days.
Remember - if you do not enroll in the MSR/Answer Rider Contingency program, you can’t win any $$$
The fire staff at Georgetown Ranger District will be conducting a 3 day chainsaw training at the Georgetown Ranger Station from May 3 through 5, 2011. They will be able to accommodate volunteers as well as Forest Service employees, who need the training or re-certification. If you are interested just in recertification, you would need to just come on May 5. This training is not for fireline chainsaw qualifications.
Since class size is limited, please let us know if you are interested in attending this training. Let me know if you have your own chainsaw, saw chaps, eye and hearing protection and hardhat. If you don’t we have some loaners available. Volunteers would need to sign up under a volunteer agreement, which I will email out to those who are able to attend this session.
Class will probable start around 8 AM and go to 5 PM the first day. The second day class will be in the classroom from 8 until 1 PM. In the afternoon of the second day, there will be some field practice for cutting and bucking. On the third day, the exercise will be out in the woods for certification and recertification starting at 8 AM at the Georgetown Ranger Station.
Thanks,
Jon Jue, Resource Officer
Georgetown Ranger District
Eldorado National Forest
(530)333-5550, FAX: (530)333-5522
email: jjue@fs.fed.us
ATTENTION District 36 Members.
An important meeting will be taking place in Hollister on April 5th.
Key on the Agenda is CCMA with the BLM recreation area.
Federal officials from Environmental Protection Agency will be on hand, and members of the public are invited.
This is the first time a presentation will be made at a Commission Meeting, and a recorder will be in place taking every word down for legal transcript.
If you can attend this meeting, public testimony will take place on this critical issue and your voice will be heard.
Additionally, a PUBLIC COMMENT period is held at all Commission meetings on ANY topic.
You can address your concerns about Cost Recovery in USFS & BLM public lands, talk about SVRA units, the state budget and the State taking your Green Sticker funds and transferring said funds to the General Fund to balance the budget, etc. Just a few examples.
Remember, courtesy is paramount. The commission is NOT at fault for any of the above. They are fighting back as best as possible ON your behalf, within the legal authority they have.
Also, a CCMA tour will take place on the 6th. if you wish to go.
And, if you check out the OHMVRD Website, you can download the CCMA Report on Asbestos completed by an independent contractor. At the same site, you can send an email to OHV Commission if you cannot make the meeting in person. All commissioners will receive your Email, on any topic.
LAO hopes to see you at this meeting.
WWW.OHV.PARKS.CA.GOV is the Division site, then click on Commission for more information.
Dave Pickett D36 LAO
The 2011 District 36 Operations Manual, otherwise known as the “Rulebook” is now available for viewing and downloading on-line. Please click on the file link below to view / print or save a copy of the newly updated District Operations Manual. You will need Adobe Acrobat, or Acrobat Reader to view the file.
2011 District 36 Operations Manual
There have been some recent significant changes to the Enduro Advancement Points calculation method. Please see Section 7.1.4 for the new advancement procedure for Enduro riders.
The printed copies of the 2011 District 36 Operations Manual will be available from your District Stewards in the next few weeks. In the meantime, if you should have any questions, please contact your Steward, or the Rulebook Chairmen at D36rulebook@live.com
*4/1/2011 EDIT*: Please be advised that the on-line version of the 2011 D36 Operations Manual was updated on 3/24/2011. If you downloaded a copy prior to 3/24, please disregard that copy and re-download the file attached above. That will ensure you have the most up to date copy. Thanks, S. Freitas
From Dave Pickett:
“Attention D36 Members. We need your help. Please take a minute to email, call or fax a quick message urging the OHV Commission to take action on your behalf to STOP the state from ripping off our OHV TRUST FUND.
The Commission has scheduled an EMERGENCY meeting about this single topic.
Click on the link below, and you will see an address to the OHV COMMISSION where you can make your voice heard.
Remember, show courtesy, respect and address your email professionally. Just tell them you want them to represent your family in letting the Governor and Legislature know you do not want YOUR Trust fund money taken again to support the General Fund like has been done in the past. $90 Million taken in 2008 and $22 Million in 2009. More from past years…………
They NEED to hear from you loud and clear. They convened this emergency meeting as response from statewide OHV leadership, and OHV folks need to let them know your feelings. Please send this to you contact lists, and let’s see if we can get a thousand letters, faxes and calls into YOUR Commission representatives. Your information will be sent to all the members of the Commission.
DO IT NOW! TIME IS VERY SHORT. Your comments will get to the Commission Members. Give them the support of the community on this issue.
Please Email, Fax or Phone your comments to the Commission at:
Email: OHVCommission@parks.ca.gov
Fax 916-324-0271 Phone 916-324-5801
Below is the Notice of Meeting, and the Agenda.
If you can come in person and speak to the Commission, which would even be better. Can we get 100 D36 members??
D36 LAO will be at this meeting speaking on behalf of ALL D36 members and families.
If you send an email, please copy D36LAO@Volcano.net and I will also present copies of your email to the Commission at the meeting.”
“NATIONAL FOREST ACCESS AT RISK
Extreme anti access groups are once again suing the Eldorado National Forest over the recently completed Travel Management Plan Decision in an attempt to create a precedent setting case that will force the Forest Service to further “minimize” public access to roads and trails. The Plaintiffs, Center for Sierra Nevada Conservation, Center for Biological Diversity and Forest Issues Group (aka Wilderness Groups) are asking the federal court to require the Forest Service to close roads and trails in order to first achieve a “minimum road system” before designating any of the few remaining routes for recreational use and public access. It has always been the wilderness group’s position that recreational routes be available for public access only after USFS gets around to completing studies for a site specific analysis to the wilderness groups’ satisfaction. The Forest Service all but admits the agency will never have the funding available to satisfy the wilderness groups’ vision. Our opponents are trying to create a system where the Forest Service will be forced to provide written assurance, in advance, that USFS has and will have all of the funds necessary to do the site specific environmental process, monitoring, trail maintenance, law enforcement, and related obligations, for each and every route. To further complicate any management efforts, the wilderness groups are also suing the State of California OHV Division in other venues to have many of the funding sources eliminated and cut-off from the National Forests.
The history of this situation clearly demonstrates that we cannot rely on the Forest Service (FS) to look after our public access and recreational interests, and the last thing that we now need is for Forest Service to willingly or unwillingly give away what little access we have remaining in any settlement agreement with wilderness groups. We need to have our public access and recreational interest groups at the table.
Several recreation access groups have joined together and have succeeded in having BlueRibbon Coalition and attorney Paul A. Turcke of Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke represent our interests. Our success so far is that we have been able to attain Defendant–Intervenors’ status with the court which allows us to participate in the litigation and any settlement process.
We recognize that most of the recreational access community is dissatisfied with elements of the National Forest Travel Management Plan Decisions. However, the gravity of the wilderness groups’ demands makes it clear that step one is to first stop their efforts to force the USFS into never ending studies and route closures.
If we as intervenors were to file cross claims as complaints against the current travel management decision, it would in effect place us on the side of the wilderness group asking for yet another round of travel planning via remand of the USFS decision to be redone. In the current sociopolitical environment that would be a huge risk towards allowing most of the wilderness group’s demands to be met. Their demands are far more injurious to us than the issues we have with the USFS decision at this time.
If the access groups and engaged public can demonstrate our unity and the ability to fund legal actions we can then be a force for issues in our own pro-active litigation. Let’s show that we can take care of this major threat to public access.
Please donate what you can. The key to this fundraising success is having as many pro-access community united in this action, so please spread the word. See attached, Plaintiffs legal brief.
The BlueRibbon Coalition will manage the Eldorado Legal defense fund and guarantee the payments to our attorney. Funds received over and above what is necessary for this action will be held to fund future action related to our issues.
Make your check payable to the BlueRibbon Coalition and indicate on the check (Eldorado Legal Defense Fund).
Mail to:
BlueRibbon Coalition
4555 Burley Drive, Suite A
Pocatello, ID 83202-1921
Thank you for your consideration and support.” (information provided by Rick Guidice)
_59-opposition-to-cross-msj-reply-in-support-of-pltfs-msj-2-4-11.pdf
Don’t forget about the riding school that Shane Watts is holding in Livermore on 3/18-3/19.
Here is the flyer: dirtwise-ad.pdf
From the USFS:
“From: Tricia Christofferson [mailto:tchristofferson@fs.fed.us]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 9:04 AM
Subject: Mendocino National Forest OHV Grant Review Opportunity
Hello Mendocino National Forest OHV Enthusiasts — I appreciate your continued interest in the OHV Recreation Program on the Mendocino National Forest. We have been working on our OHV grant application for the 2010 / 2011 grant cycle with the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division. Please see the attached letter which provides more information on our grant application, as well as a link to the State’s website where you may review and comment on our application. Comments will be accepted by the State between March 8 and April 4th, 2011.
Tricia D. Christofferson
Recreation Officer
Mendocino National Forest
(530) 934-1167 (Willows)
(530) 879-6608 (Chico)
tchristofferson@fs.fed.us”
The winner of the $100 Tucker Buck certificate from the Picacho Creek NHS is Dennis McBee!
Thank you Tucker Rocky/MSR/Answer/Pro Taper!!!!
Dear Fellow Members,
Kane Silverberg – District 2K, has sent his letter in to the folks making decisions; formatted from concern, fairness, and thoughtfulness. His letter speaks volumes for our D36 and AMA members.
While Kane may be a Commissioner, he is a dedicated racer first, and puts his money where his mouth is.
Thank You Kane for your words on our behalf. Hopefully it will spurn others to do the same. (Dave Pickett)
Subject: OHV TRUST FUND EMERGENCY
Honorable Budget Committee Members,
Please don’t take Monies from the State Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Operating Budgets or Grant and divert them to State’s General Fund. The Fuel Tax Revenue Component of the OHV Trust Fund is protected by California Constitution Article 19 and is not fungible. This action will most assuredly be challenged in court. More litigation is just another example of kicking the can down the road and is not what the Governor is asking for in the budget, he does not want us to pass the buck anymore. The OHV Trust Fund monies have very specific intended purposes and cannot be used for anything other than those uses as highlighted by both case law and the Constitution. Borrowing the OHV Trust Funds is the only way to legally access these monies, the state has done that for the last 3 years to the tune of about $140 million (including the Governor’s $21 million this year).
Both myself and over 7,000,000 OHV Registered Users/Families that are currently using OHV opportunities in the state of California are vehemently opposed to this proposal by your committee.
The State OHV Program operates with fiscal responsibility and in a manner that is the example for the rest of the state parks to follow. Dismantling the one part of the State Parks system that is healthy is an unforgivable
action and makes no sense. This action would unjustly penalize the OHV users and the program for being fiscally responsible, while rewarding other groups for fiscal mismanagement and irresponsibility. Would the taxpayers want you to take funding from a innovative, well managed program and add them to the mismanaged mess? Would you take money from one child’s piggy bank and give it to their sibling because they had spent all of their money frivolously?
The truth is these State OHV Parks offer the type of recreation preferred by a greater number of people in the park user population. Park attendance at OHV parks out paces attendance at other parks by leaps and bounds. We manage the land set aside for OHV recreation in a responsible way. Families are enjoying and protecting the land in a way that also supports their pursuit of happiness.
Please do not take the action of “Stealing” funds from the Off-Highway Vehicle Trust Fund, it will just cost us all more money in the long term. There is a reason it is called a “Trust” fund, it is held “in trust” by you - held in our “trust of you”. If we cannot teach our children to trust you, as elected officials, to do what is right and appropriate in your positions, regardless of power and ability thereof, who can we trust?
Respectfully submitted,
Kane Silverberg
OHMVR Commissioner
District 36 Number 2K
Below is a link to video from the Budget Conference Committee that Dave Pickett attended yesterday, on behalf of D36. (Note from Dave below)
“I did have a chance to talk with Assemblyman Nielsen pre-hearing with Terry McHale of Aaron Read & Associates. They supplied this video cut, and we are a client of AR&A. I attempted to meet with others, but most in a different committee meeting. I visited by Senator Gaines and Senator La Malfa’s offices, and was told the OHV community IS making an impact with hundred of emails, telephone calls and faxes burn up at their capitol offices. Ditto their field offices.
Please note that this committee has completed all but 3/10ths of their work on proposals for their portion of the budget mess. Having said that, yesterday was the 4th time our OHV issue has been tabled and moved due to conflict.
The pressure we have levied upon the entire legislature and especially these members of this important committee is causing many on the committee to review, and ask for more information. The information presented by the AOL (Office of Administrative Law) & LAO (Legislative Analyst’s Office) and DOF (Department of Finance was full of holes, and correct information was NOT being presented to the committee members. Nary a word about SB742 intent for the program. The committee has heard from us loud and clear that OHV supports law enforcement, but the cuts proposed will harm our ability to fund supplemental LE agencies like the 58 county sheriff’s offices. IF, and a big IF, the program dies – CHP would lose millions of dollars a year that is given to them within SB742 and paid by Reg fee’s we pay, AKA “Green Sticker Fee” and this also would harm LE. Basically, they got the word about trickle down poverty destroying LE and thus it could be construed that the Administration does not support Law Enforcement. (A political bomb for them on public safety.) Things are changing hour by hour, but the testimony is clear and two state agencies are fighting and the mere mention of lawsuit is a testy topic.
They know we will sue if necessary.
Keep those love letters going to all 120 Legislators who WORK FOR US. Again, be professional and courteous; make your points, stress family, and responsible OHV recreation, as well as the tourism dollars that your family brings to the rural counties, and local SVRA merchants.
As always, follow the money.
I contacted Amador County Board of Supervisors, and they in turn “get it” and have made call up the food chain to representatives in the Assembly and Senate.
It is working, so if you have time, educate your County BOS. One thing they understand, and need, is MONEY.”
To view the hearing, click here.
It is password protected; the password is OHV.
FYI. Open the document and see page 8 - OHV.
This is ugly!!!
This time, the State does NOT want to pay back any stolen OHV funds (that WE paid) backto the OHV program!!!
They don’t want to allow any public comment from anyone, either.
To quote someone else “those arrogant a–holes”
We must ACT NOW to save the OHV program! The Governor of Califoria is trying to sweep all the user fee/trust accounts.
What can you do: Act now and contact your legislative members ASAP! Find your representatives here, and use the speaking points below, or add some of your own: click here
Every day the status on this changes - but here is the basic background:
The Issue: On Friday, February 18th, the Assembly Budget Committee voted to take $27 million out of the OHV operating budget. This would NOT be a loan, and would continue unstopped year after year. It would result in closures and cut-backs to the California OHV Parks – Carnegie, Clay Pit, Heber Dunes, Hollister Hills, Hungry Valley, Mammoth Bar, Oceano Dunes, Ocotillo Wells and Prairie City. The Snow Grooming program and State Sno-Parks will also be greatly affected or closed. In addition, the Governor is proposing to take $27 million more from the OHV program. This could be the end of the OHV program as have enjoyed it for the last 40 years.
This Thursday, February 24th, the Conference Committee will meet in the State Capitol to iron out difference between the State Assembly and Senate Budget Committees. We have to influence the Conference Committee members through our elected legislative representatives.
The budget proposes only an $11 million cut for 270 State Parks, yet a cut of $27 million is proposed from the OHV division which has only 8 State OHV Parks. This represents less than a 10% cut to State Park operations, but over a 40% reduction to the operating budget of the OHV parks. The OHV Division is a user funded program, taking NO money from the General Fund.
The State OHV Parks are all about children, offering them opportunities to recreate outdoors. The OHV parks encourage families to go camping, and offer urban residents the chance to enjoy the outdoors in a safe environment. The OHV parks enjoyed a 150% increase in attendance over the last 10 years, which State Parks cannot equal.
The Law says the OHV division of State Parks should have equal priority among the other State Parks. Budget impacts should be equally shared….yet the State OHV Parks have had $112 million dollars taken over the last 3 years. Now the Assembly proposes to gut the program, favoring less popular State Parks. This is certainly discriminatory, and counter to the law. The OHV community has given more than it’s fair share of the OHV Trust Fund. These are dedicated user fees.
The OHV community has taken legal action for two other attempts of this kind…and the State has lost! We sued you and won $21.5 million. We are willing and able to do this again, and the State will lose even more money before all this is over. We will pursue all legal remedies to stop this action, and stop the discrimination against the State OHV Program and affiliated activities.
This is an urgent appeal to contact your legislators NOW and tell them HANDS OFF OF OHV FUNDS!
Dave Pickett District 36 MC Sports Committee – President & LAO
Amy Granat Nor Cal Representative – California 4 Wheel Drive Association
Nick Haris – AMA National-Western Region Representative
We need you help, as we have obtained assistance from congress and a new bill inside of Congress, HR 412 “The just let kids ride bill” is alive and kicking.
Please click on the link, and take 5 minutes to lend your support of this bill for our kids.
BRC & D36 are asking everybody to send in a note. Please pass this along to all of your riding friends.
It is very important we defeat this outrageous law.
David Pickett, Director
Legislative Action Office
AMA District 36 - Motorcycle Sports Committee
Action Alert with Video and Letter Links:
click here
Hello!
The winner of the $100 Tucker Buck certificate from the Oasis is Cole Conatser!
Remember, only the racers who are enrolled in the 2011 MSR/Answer Rider Contingency Program are eligible to win the $100 certificates this year . . . . . we get to give away 30 and your chances are really good to win one if you sign up now!
Thank you Tucker Rocky/MSR/Answer/Pro Taper!!!!
(Cole, the certificate will be mailed to you from MSR in the next few days - Congrats!)
Hello!
The first winner of 2011’s $100 Tucker Buck certificates is Nick Thom!
Remember, only the racers who are enrolled in the 2011 MSR/Answer Rider Contingency Program are eligible to win the $100 certificates this year . . . . . we get to give away 30 and your chances are really good to win one if you sign up now!
Thank you Tucker Rocky/MSR/Answer/Pro Taper!!!!
Who won the Shane Watts riding school certificate?
Who won the riding gear set?
We are trying to accumulate a list of main prize winners to make sure the prize donor knows who won!
Please email Al Fitch at teamfitch1@aol.com, Jill Patterson at d36photo@pacbell.com or Kraig Traum at d36moose@att.net.
Thank you!
Here is the list of the winners from the 2010 LAO Bike Raffle drawings at the D36 Awards Banquet on January 8th.
Thank You to everyone that donated to raffle . . . . and especially to all of you who bought tickets!!!
I will call winners during the next few days. [You can also contact me by email at d36moose@att.net.]
“KTM 450″ Ahmad Jamal
“Alpinestars Tech8 Boots” Art Wilson
“D36 Lifetime Membership” Brian Furrer
“SpotMe” Joseph Michael
“MSR Gear Bag” John Estruth
Thank you!
Kraig Traum
From the Tucker Rocky/MSR/Answer/Pro Taper 2010 Series Sponsorship that D36 received - here are the winners of the 2011 Rider Support Contracts for 2011, the last half of 2010’s $100 Tucker Buck certificate winners and those who won $$$ from the 2010 Rider Contingency program. (Also listed in the January 1st D36 Newsletter)
Thank you Tucker Rocky/MSR/Answer/Pro Taper!!!!
d36-contingency-winners-for-web.pdf
Who will be our lucky 30 winners of $100 certificates in 2011????
Who will be 2011’s six racers who win Rider Support Contracts for 2012???
Don’t forget to sign up for the 2011 Rider Contingency Program!!! (More prize $$$ wait for you!)
Tucker Rocky/MSR/Answer/Pro Taper is D36’s primary Series Sponsor for 2011, again.
Here is the registration form/rules for the Rider Contingency program
2011-tr-msr-regform.pdf
Here is additional information
2011-ridreg-addl-info.pdf
You can buy your gear at a local retailer, or you can order online - some of the many sites to use are motosportoutlet.com, bikebandit or Motorcycle superstore.
For 2011, D36 will have 30 $100 certificates to distribute . . . only the racers who are enrolled in the rider contingency program will be eligible to win those!!! Sign up now and your chances of winning one of January or February’s $100 will be VERY good!
Make sure you contact Tucker Rocky (info on the registration form) if you have any questions!
Here is the link to the 2010 Husqvarna contingency program. (The area rep believes the program will be the same for 2011.)
www.xtrm.com/husqvarna/2010ContingencyGuide.pdf
(Copy/paste the address to your web browser.)
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