Advocacy Alert!
Support sustainable trail building and access around Payette Lake.
As many of you may have heard, Trident Holdings has approached the Idaho Department of Lands with a preliminary proposal that would severely impact public access and usage of current IDL land around Payette Lake.
CIMBA views this proposal as a major threat to the continued development and completion of the Payette Lake Trail, especially on the East side of the Lake. In particular, parcels E, G, and H hold tremendous opportunity to complete this trail and support future stacked loop options (much like Bear Basin).
We need your help to let the IDL know how important maintaining continued access to this land is for the mountain bike community. We believe there is an economically viable solution to meet the IDL's constitutional mandate while maintaining public access. In particular, the following talking points can be used to address mountain bike specific usage:
Recreational Leasing - CIMBA currently holds a recreational lease for the current Payette Lake Trail corridor. We believe this is a workable income-generating model to support sustainable trail development that can be used on the parcels mentioned above.
Conservation Easements - the utilization of conservation easements protect CIMBA's interest in long-term investment in trail projects. Trail development is resource intensive, and it is imperative that we can ensure land we choose to build trails on is appropriately protected for generations to come.
Additional Time - to allow more time for alternative proposals and/or for the stakeholders to continue to work together to come up with viable economic options. An extension of the moratorium of new leases would benefit this process. There are many creative solutions being generated by our community and it will take additional time to put them together.
Public comments are due by March 1st. Please take a few minutes to submit a comment and let the IDL know this land matters to you! There is a wealth of additional information including more talking points available on the PELA website.