Trail Pace: Saturday, February 27, 2010 - Trail Pace Flyer
Shindig: Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 6:00 pm - Shindig Flyer
3rd Annual Volunteers Appreciation Day
Meeting and Elections - Eating and Dancing - Silent Auction and Door Prizes
Citrus Tract of Withlacoochee State Forest
Tillis Hills Campground Dining Hall
East Stage Coach Trail
Inverness, Fl 34452-9249
Directions on the Calendar Page
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The American Horse Council has launched a new effort to collect information on access issues equestrians
are experiencing on federal lands. AHC has put online a form riders can use to report their personal
experiences regarding trails on that have been closed to them or other access issues. More information
and the online form is located at
http://www.horsecouncil.org/survey.php The online form can also be used to document any successes riders have had keeping a trail or area open to horses on federal land. Such information is needed as well. Efforts to gain support for legislation to protect equestrian access to public land have been hampered by a lack of information regarding the reduction of trails, trail heads and the closure of public lands to horses and pack animals. This new initiative will allow the recreational riding community to report when they are forced off a trail or are fighting to stay on a trail. This information will be used to clearly demonstrate the extent of the problem and the need for action on the part of Congress or the federal land agencies. If you have a relevant experience with trail access issues on federal land, FFBCH encourages you to support the AHC’s effort’s to document these issues. |
Florida's Recreational equestrian trail use has exploded since the mid 1990's.
At the same time other user pressure has grown. Development is encroaching and
we are getting squeezed out of our public lands. While other groups have expanded
their access – equestrians are losing access.
The threat is here and it's real.
It isn't just forests trails it is land access,
open land for stables, rodeo arenas, polo fields
and many other equestrian endeavors.
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* Withlacoochee State Trail open for Equestrian Use * The WST can be accessed for day use with parking for horse trailers available at Townsen Regional Park in Nobleton and the Ridge Manor Trailhead just off of SR 50. FFBCH’s first workday to clear the WST was October 2007. We had five official workdays from October to March 2008. Over 30 different volunteers participated to help us clear the trail. There were numerous other work days when individuals went out and worked on their own clearing the trail. We logged over 300 volunteer hours on this project. FFBCH is very proud of this effort and proud of all the people who helped make this effort possible.
We would like to thank each of you for your help. We would particularly like to thank Steve Stackhouse, WST manager for his support and participation in this project. Steve Stackhouse said, “It was with chain saws, lopers, pole saws, individuals with tractors and gloved volunteers dragging brush that we cleared 10 miles of horse trails that had been mostly unridable for years.” It was a lot of hard work on everyone’s part, but the end result has been well worth the effort. Future plans are to open the trail south to SR 301 and north to Floral City. |
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