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Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast.

My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be doing a bit of an update on a bunch of mountain bike advocacy issues.

So over the last year, two years, there's been a number of advocacy things coming up in the mountain bike world

from bikes in wilderness to the way that mountain bike clubs are organized. And so we're going to take

some time. A lot of this stuff has changed actually just in the last couple of months. So we're

going to try to update everyone on these various issues. So before we talk about some of these specific issues, I wanted us to define some terms and sort of talk about general advocacy stuff.

One of the big issues here in terms of bikes in wilderness is this idea of wilderness study areas. Matt, what's your

understanding of what a wilderness study area is? So it sounds like it's, you know, an area that's

put up for study and they basically analyze if it's going to be designated as, as a wilderness

or not, or if that area is going to be benefited by a full-on wilderness designation.

Right. And I guess to back up even further, we should mention that in the United States anyway,

when we talk about wilderness, that's like a legal definition, I guess you would say,

for an area that is protected and under current sort of interpretation of

the wilderness rules and regulations, that means no bicycles are allowed. So essentially these

wilderness study areas have begun while they're not wilderness yet. They've started to be treated as wilderness, and so

bikes are not allowed, even when an area is under study, even if it's not a wilderness area yet.

So there's another similar designation called a recommended wilderness area, an RWA.

And again, it's the same idea that an area is recommended for wilderness designation. It hasn't been officially approved yet. But again, the lawyers and various people who interpret these rules have decided that if an area is recommended for wilderness, that's it, no more bikes, even though,

again, it's not officially.

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