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  • Midpen input – received!

    Midpen input – received!

    Thanks everyone for your participation in the Midpeninsula Region Open Space District’s recent Vision process. Our voices were heard through workshop participation and a lot of on-line input – great!

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  • *Update* Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: send your input online by Sunday 12/15th!

    The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District has finished their regional workshops, but it’s still possible to send input via their website. Midpen has identified several goals for open space preserves, based on input gathered over the past eight months. These goals are taken into consideration when deciding what actions, activities, projects, and programs are top…

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  • ECdM Parking/Staging Area Update

    Update from Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District: “Construction has resumed at the staging area at El Corte de Madera Creek Open Space Preserve.  We are working on retrofits to the drainage system to address the issues we encountered last winter.  Once construction is complete, we will be monitoring the drainage system’s performance through this winter’s…

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  • Upcoming Sanborn trail buildin’ days!

    Upcoming Sanborn trail buildin’ days!

    Santa Clara County Parks staff have been working on a new segment of the John Nicholas trail in Sanborn County Park – when finished, the trail will be open to mountain bikers!  Volunteers have been helping with the trail this summer… stay tuned for trail work days this winter!

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  • New affiliation, new name!

    Big news: we’re now an IMBA chapter, and we’ve changed our name to Silicon Valley Mountain Bikers – see our e-news update for more info!  New links:  svmtb.org, facebook, and meetup!

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  • Spring 2013 Mountain Cyclist available online

    Here is the link to the Spring 2013 newsletter. Contents include: Dirt Alpine Closed Trail News Poison Oak Calendar As we move forward into newer forms of communication, we are moving our paper newsletter online. Our new website allows us to do a great job of putting news on our site and posting related messages…

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  • Action Link – State Park funding

    The California State Parks Foundation requests our assistance in urging the Legislature and governor to allocate the recently-identified State Park and Recreation Funds (SPRF) revenues back into our state park system. Despite recent statements from the governor, they are concerned that it is not a done deal that the Legislature intends to allocate the $20.3…

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