Vermont
A Clear Path Forward For The Vermont Mountain Bike Association – Pinkbike
Photograph by Mark Clement – Richmond Mountain Trails
The Board and employees sat down in early 2022 to revisit VMBA’s Mission and Imaginative and prescient, culminating in modest however necessary updates to each Statements. With these in place as a ‘north star,’ VMBA management collected enter from the group’s 29 Chapters, listened to companions, and analyzed knowledge from their annual Member Surveys. Primarily based on these sources, they then mapped out the main challenges in the way in which of well-planned, accessible, and progressive path techniques state-wide and a future the place mountain biking is on the middle of wholesome, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable communities statewide.
Photograph by Jeb Wallace-Brodeur – Burke Mountain Resort
With this lengthy record of concepts, wishes, challenges, and alternatives, the Board and employees hammered out seven main targets throughout Trails, Advocacy, Neighborhood, and the Group. That’s proper, TACO:
Trails:
1. Steward a statewide community of accessible, well-planned, progressive, and sustainable trails
Advocacy:
2. Transfer public-access leisure trails out of Act 250 and into an applicable oversight mannequin
3. Acknowledge landowners by incorporating public-access trails into the Present Use program
Neighborhood
4. Set up an knowledgeable ridership that is aware of the place, when, and the right way to experience
5. Rely nearly all of those that usually use Vermont’s trails as lively VMBA Members
6. Considerably improve youth, non-male, BIPOC, and adaptive illustration in MTB ridership
Group:
7. Run a thriving, sustainable group that draws and retains expertise and develops our Chapters.
You possibly can try a visible abstract of the plan and your entire doc on www.vmba.org. These are additionally invited to attend VMBA’s digital Annual Assembly on 3/23 to study extra; particulars will be discovered on the Occasions web page on vmba.org.
About VMBA
By way of a household of 29 unified Chapters, the Affiliation carries out its mission to make sure the sustainability of mountain biking in Vermont and thoughtfully promote distinctive using experiences for all by advocacy, schooling, and community-driven stewardship. VMBA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit group. The Chapter mannequin and method to state-level advocacy is a uniquely efficient mixture that meaningfully hyperlinks the views of particular person riders to the Affiliation’s work with state management. With practically 10,000 members, VMBA is a cornerstone of Vermont’s outside neighborhood, advocating for public land entry, personal landowner protections, modernized coverage, and sustainably constructed trails.