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From: Chris Horgan-Stewards of the Sequoia <chris@stewardsofthesequoia.org>
Date: August 3, 2022 at 9:40:22 AM PDT
To: webmaster@vcmc.info
Subject: SOS-What Keeps Sequoia Trails Open




Stewards

Sequoia Trail News

July 2022

How Documentation Keeps Sequoia Trails Open

Paperwork and planning puts most people to sleep or makes them run for cover.

However, documentation is the key to keeping Sequoia trails open and building more trails. Which is why documentation is the cornerstone to Stewards Trail Advocacy Program. Over the past twenty years Stewards has performed research and catalogued pro access regulations and policies. Stewards has then cited these in our substantive comments, such as in our soon to be filed objection to the proposed Sequoia Forest Plan Revision, to prevent trail closures and keep our public lands open to all forms of recreation.

Stewards advocacy has included research and comments on thousands of pages of Forest Service, BLM and other planning processes effecting Sequoia trails and public access with extremely positive results of no net trail loss as well a building 20 miles of new trails.

Stewards Trail Advocacy Program field work has compiled immense amounts of data mapping trails and their condition. Stewards shared some of our field work with BLM and Forest Service to prevent the closure of Woolstalf Trail and many trails in the Piute Mountains.

Stewards advocacy has prevented trail closures using the most effective pro-active methods. Your continued donations are what enables Stewards to continue our important Trail Advocacy Program. Yet many members have stopped donating to Stewards due to the Forest Service wrongfully terminating our volunteer trail maintenance program, but volunteerism is only a small part of what Stewards does and the least important.

Stewards advocacy is what keeps trails from being closed. Advocacy that is needed now more than ever to counter the huge push that is about to begin by the Forest Service to close Piute and other trails. Thank you to those of you who have donated. You are what keeps Stewards going. If you have not donated this year please donate now to enable Stewards to keep fighting and winning for your trails.

 

Trails In Trouble

Was a short video created by Save Our Trails working with Stewards of the Sequoia. It was ahead of its time showing the importance of keeping trails open and how little impact roads and trails have on public lands. Trails In Trouble was the largest distributed video to help educate legislators on the need to keep trails open. The message and content are as valid today as they were 15 years ago.

You can see the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIk506INXFU


SPOTLIGHT ON LOCAL BUSINESS
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One of the best things about Littlejohn’s English Toffee House at the Los Angeles Farmer’s Market is our open-window kitchen. Look through it and you’ll experience Littlejohn’s 80-year tradition of making candy by hand one small batch at a time. Not much has changed here since the 1920s, right down to the candy makers in crisp white uniforms hand-crafting mouthwatering Fudge, English Toffee, Caramels and other confections, stirring them over open flames in copper kettles and working each decadent batch to perfection on marble tables.

But even if you can’t make it to L.A., you can still enjoy all the delights we make in our shop. Browse, deliberate (it won’t be easy), then place your order and we’ll ship the world’s finest hand-made candy right to your doorstep.

Check out their site http://www.littlejohnscandies.com

Support the folks like Littlejohn Candy who support Stewards

 
 
 

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Over the years your donations helped Stewards reopen this trail along with eight others and so much more.

Yet today 90% of Stewards members have let their donations expire. Please make your donation now so we can continue our efforts to keep your trails open. Thanks

Land of Many Uses

With your help Stewards of the Sequoia will continue to keep the Sequoia National Forest A Land Of Many Uses and open to all

 

 

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