• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Tahoe National Forest

sharpie1

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This is a copy of a post on TT. The Western States Trail is important to me and many others and under a quiet attack, if you know this trail and want to see it remain open please continue reading and do what you can do.

They start with the MTB's and then come after us. If any of you know this trail please help.


Dear friends, mt. bikers and Tahoe-Sierra 59/100 racers,


We need your help. The Tahoe-Sierra 59/100 is in jeopardy of being eliminated due to the efforts of a secretive equestrian group that does not want bicycles or OHV's on the Western States Trail in the Tahoe National Forest. They have been hammering on the USFS and District 4 Congressman Tom McClintock's office, and we were just informed that the USFS will not issue Global Biorhythm Events a permit for the 2013 race if the course uses the Western States Trail (WST).


Making matters more frustrating is we have been unsuccessful in getting a meeting with all parties represented at the table, but we understand the equestrians have met with the Foresthill District Ranger more than once to plead their case. This is unacceptable to us. The District Ranger, who has been an ally to GBE in the past, has caved to the equestrians without hearing from the mountain bike community.


The USFS recommends we reroute the course, which we will not do. If we give-in here, mountain bikers will ultimately lose access to the WST, which has been multi-use-legal for 30+ years. The equestrians are playing the "safety card" and stressing how dangerous it is for bicycles to be on the trail, pointing to the unfortunate accident that happened during last year's race at the bottom of Francisco's fire road. We have been working diligently to make sure decision makers understand the truth surrounding this accident, but it hasn't changed the outcome thus far.


Now we ask for your help. Please take a moment to call or email the following people with your heartfelt thoughts about this injustice. Please do this right away. In order to ensure that the 2013 Tahoe-Sierra Race happens, we need to get the permit soon, so that we can focus on organizing everything that goes into making the Tahoe-Sierra a premier endurance event.


Thank you for your support!



These are the folks you need to send your email to. DO THIS TODAY!!!

Randy Moore (Regional Forester, Pacific Southwest Region): rmoore@fs.fed.us 707-562-9000
Roseanna Wary (Special Assistant to Rancy Moore): rwary@fs.fed.us 707-562-9000
Chris Fischer (District Ranger, American River): cfischer@fs.fed.us 530-367-2224
Mo Tebbe (District Ranger, American River): mtebbe@fs.fed.us
Mary Sullivan (American River Ranger District): mcsullivan@fs.fed.us 530-367-2224

SAMPLE LETTER

While personalized emails are always best, if all you have time for is to copy/paste something to the key USFS people, please use this below (feel free to edit it if need be):


Email Subject: I support mountain biking on the Western States Trail and request open discussion about potential changes in policy

Dear Forest Service,

I am a mountain biker that supports sharing trails on public lands. Mountain biking has been an acceptable use on the Western States Trail for more than 30 years, making mountain bikers a historical user group. Banning mountain biking from the Western States Trail in the Tahoe National Forest and/or denying Global Biorhythm Events a permit to conduct the Tahoe-Sierra Endurance Race on parts of the Western States Trail is unnecessary, unwarranted and unacceptable.

If there is truly a safety issue, let's see the statistics and let's work on a solution together. One user group with an exclusionary agenda cannot and should not dictate USFS policy without including other affected user groups in the decision making process. Blanket bans do not work and only create more animosity and problems for the trail stakeholders and those charged with managing the trail system. We need to be a united trails community, working together to maintain and protect our trail system in the Tahoe National Forest, including the historic Western States Trail. Whether it's a bicycle event (Tahoe-Sierra), an equestrian event (Tevis Cup), or a running event (Western States 100), the Western States Trail can be shared safely every day, including race day.

I ask you to meet with stakeholders from all interested parties, together, and resolve this issue immediately.

Thank you,

<your name>
 
It's like this...

A Typical Enviro-Nazi said:
Yeah, those four equestrians' safety is compromised by the hundreds of MTBers and hundreds of dirt bikers, so lets ban MTB and dirt bikes.
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sharpie1 said:
This is a copy of a post on TT. The Western States Trail is important to me and many others and under a quiet attack, if you know this trail and want to see it remain open please continue reading and do what you can do.

They start with the MTB's and then come after us. If any of you know this trail please help.


Dear friends, mt. bikers and Tahoe-Sierra 59/100 racers,


We need your help. The Tahoe-Sierra 59/100 is in jeopardy of being eliminated due to the efforts of a secretive equestrian group that does not want bicycles or OHV's on the Western States Trail in the Tahoe National Forest. They have been hammering on the USFS and District 4 Congressman Tom McClintock's office, and we were just informed that the USFS will not issue Global Biorhythm Events a permit for the 2013 race if the course uses the Western States Trail (WST).


Making matters more frustrating is we have been unsuccessful in getting a meeting with all parties represented at the table, but we understand the equestrians have met with the Foresthill District Ranger more than once to plead their case. This is unacceptable to us. The District Ranger, who has been an ally to GBE in the past, has caved to the equestrians without hearing from the mountain bike community.


The USFS recommends we reroute the course, which we will not do. If we give-in here, mountain bikers will ultimately lose access to the WST, which has been multi-use-legal for 30+ years. The equestrians are playing the "safety card" and stressing how dangerous it is for bicycles to be on the trail, pointing to the unfortunate accident that happened during last year's race at the bottom of Francisco's fire road. We have been working diligently to make sure decision makers understand the truth surrounding this accident, but it hasn't changed the outcome thus far.


Now we ask for your help. Please take a moment to call or email the following people with your heartfelt thoughts about this injustice. Please do this right away. In order to ensure that the 2013 Tahoe-Sierra Race happens, we need to get the permit soon, so that we can focus on organizing everything that goes into making the Tahoe-Sierra a premier endurance event.


Thank you for your support!



These are the folks you need to send your email to. DO THIS TODAY!!!

Randy Moore (Regional Forester, Pacific Southwest Region): rmoore@fs.fed.us 707-562-9000
Roseanna Wary (Special Assistant to Rancy Moore): rwary@fs.fed.us 707-562-9000
Chris Fischer (District Ranger, American River): cfischer@fs.fed.us 530-367-2224
Mo Tebbe (District Ranger, American River): mtebbe@fs.fed.us
Mary Sullivan (American River Ranger District): mcsullivan@fs.fed.us 530-367-2224

SAMPLE LETTER

While personalized emails are always best, if all you have time for is to copy/paste something to the key USFS people, please use this below (feel free to edit it if need be):


Email Subject: I support mountain biking on the Western States Trail and request open discussion about potential changes in policy

Dear Forest Service,

I am a mountain biker that supports sharing trails on public lands. Mountain biking has been an acceptable use on the Western States Trail for more than 30 years, making mountain bikers a historical user group. Banning mountain biking from the Western States Trail in the Tahoe National Forest and/or denying Global Biorhythm Events a permit to conduct the Tahoe-Sierra Endurance Race on parts of the Western States Trail is unnecessary, unwarranted and unacceptable.

If there is truly a safety issue, let's see the statistics and let's work on a solution together. One user group with an exclusionary agenda cannot and should not dictate USFS policy without including other affected user groups in the decision making process. Blanket bans do not work and only create more animosity and problems for the trail stakeholders and those charged with managing the trail system. We need to be a united trails community, working together to maintain and protect our trail system in the Tahoe National Forest, including the historic Western States Trail. Whether it's a bicycle event (Tahoe-Sierra), an equestrian event (Tevis Cup), or a running event (Western States 100), the Western States Trail can be shared safely every day, including race day.

I ask you to meet with stakeholders from all interested parties, together, and resolve this issue immediately.

Thank you,

<your name>
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It really sucks we have issues like this,,our forest is ours we pay for it,the USFS years ago should have made seprate trails for both..Its a hard battle for us dirtbikers!!! IT'S OUR LAND TOO****************************************! :censored:
 
K.Forte' said:
It's a hard battle for us dirtbikers!!! IT'S OUR LAND TOO ! :censored:
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Yeah good luck with that argument... :(

Here in the Southeastern U.S. it's only yours if you actually own it with a deed in hand, and who knows how long until even that becomes questionable...
 
JSK73 said:
Yeah good luck with that argument... :(

Here in the Southeastern U.S. it's only yours if you actually own it with a deed in hand, and who knows how long until even that becomes questionable...
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I can surmise from my own experience (talking with rangers)the National Forest we have is open to all,but since the founding of EPA,,and others we are being pushed out of the land we pay for and support
 
Your rangers need to see a documentary called Pedal Driven. It is showing that areas in Oregon and Washington state have built and opened up new trails in the National forests. And how a new directive has and will open more areas of our national forest and park land to Mountain bikers. I have ridden the flume trail that starts near incline village Nevada. It is extremely popular and I don't believe they would dare close that. I believe there are one hell of a lot more mountain bikers than there are horse owners and riders.
 
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