Public Lands Initiative - IMBA

IMBA's Public Lands Initiative offers new resources to promote a bicycle-friendly approach toward our nation's legacy of public lands protection. The strategic elements of the campaign include:

Identify high-priority trails across the nation and keep them open to mountain bikes
Provide professional training sessions, enhanced communication tools and facilitated negotiations with stakeholder groups
Track management plans and promote pro-bicycle policies at the local, state and federal levels
Champion public land protection campaigns to protect our trails from development and resource extraction and preserve continued bicycle use
Build and strengthen multi-user outdoor recreation coalitions
Unite the bicycle industry, retailers and IMBA clubs behind key land protection campaigns

Partners: Trek and Specialized plus the following from IMBA website: To date, pledges for the Public Lands Initiative total $587,000. Donors include:

Advanced Sports International/Fuji
Aero Tech Designs Cyclewear
B & L Bikeshop
Bicycle Dealer magazine
Bicycle Retailer & Industry News magazine
Bikes Belong Coalition
CamelBak
Campagnolo/Fulcrum
CatEye
DeFeet
Feedback Sports
FOX Racing Shox
GORE Bike Wear/GORE RideOn Cable Systems
Haro Bikes
Hayes Disc Brake
Hydrapak
Interbike
Palo Alto Bicycles
Park Tool
Pedro's
Performance Bicycle
Polar Bottle
Primal Wear
Purely Custom Cycling
Quality Bicycle Parts (QBP)
Raleigh/Diamondback
Sidi America
Skip Hess
SOAR Communications
Specialized
SRAM
The Hawley Company
the wellness agency
Thule
Trek Bicycle
Vitesse Cycle Shop
Wheel & Sprocket
Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB)