{"id":50942,"date":"2022-06-20T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=50942"},"modified":"2022-06-20T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T16:49:48","slug":"conservation-pisgah-area-sorba-volunteers-help-keep-trails-safe-accessible-for-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/outdoors\/conservation-pisgah-area-sorba-volunteers-help-keep-trails-safe-accessible-for-riders\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation: Pisgah Area SORBA Volunteers Help Keep Trails Safe &#038; Accessible For Riders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50946\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50946\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50946\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-810x475.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Trail-repairs-to-keep-it-dry.-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-1140x668.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Repairs to keep the trail dry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Emma Castleberry<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no doubt that mountain biking trails are a crucial part of our region\u2019s appeal and economy, and Pisgah Area SORBA (PAS) is a volunteer organization dedicated to maintaining and improving those trails. \u201cRecreation opportunities like mountain biking are important for the health and well-being of communities,\u201d says Daniel Sapp, vice president of PAS. \u201cTrails also help support our economy as many people travel here to explore and experience the abundant natural resources we have in WNC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SORBA stands for Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, a collection of more than 40 dedicated mountain bike groups. The largest nonprofit mountain biking organization in the southeast, SORBA\u2019s mission is to promote land access, trail<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50945\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50945\" class=\"wp-image-50945\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-810x1080.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Conservation_-SORBA-Photo-by-Chad-Davis-1140x1520.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-50945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Chad Davis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>preservation and new trail development for all mountain bikers. The organization is proactive in community outreach, engaging and educating riders on how to care for the natural spaces where they play. PAS also raises funds for large trail work projects often completed in partnership with the US Forest Service. For example, PAS is working with the USFS and Pisgah Conservancy to realign a large section of heavily used and eroding trail in the Pisgah National Forest. It will be re-worked over the next year alongside the ongoing upkeep of the hundreds of multi-use trails in the Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Trail maintenance is especially important in our region, a temperate rainforest that receives heavy rainfall every year. Trails that are great for mountain biking tend to be steep and often have loose, rocky soil. When you add water, it\u2019s a perfect recipe for erosion, fallen trees and washed-out bridges. There are simple ways to avoid such damage, namely by ensuring that water can flow off and away from the trail during heavy rain. \u201cAs trivial as moving some leaves and brush around and out of a drain that looks like a glorified ditch may seem, it\u2019s actually really important,\u201d says Sapp. \u201cIt\u2019s something that has to be constantly done to keep trails in good shape and prevent more major work from having to happen.\u201d Much of this trail maintenance happens during PAS Trail Work Days, which are open to volunteers of all ability levels, even those with no previous trail work experience.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Jack Henderson first learned about PAS in 2017 at one such event. The PAS mission of maintaining trails in the Pisgah Ranger District is important to Henderson \u201cbecause it acknowledges that the US Forest Service, the official land manager for these trails and associated roads and trailheads, has limited resources to maintain trails and create new trails, and thus steps up to fill in the gaps in stewardship,\u201d he says. \u201cBy volunteering time and resources to maintain trail, it gives the organization\u2019s leadership\u2014and by extension, its membership\u2014a seat at the table when the land managers make decisions that affect PAS constituency (mountain bikers). I like to have a seat at the table, and I am willing to put in the work to earn that position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information or to sign up for a Trail Work Day, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/PisgahAreaSORBA.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PisgahAreaSORBA.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRecreation opportunities like mountain biking are important for the health and well-being of communities,\u201d says Daniel Sapp, vice president of Pisgah Area SORBA. \u201cTrails also help support our economy as many people travel here to explore and experience the abundant natural resources we have in WNC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-outdoors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conservation: Pisgah Area SORBA Volunteers Help Keep Trails Safe &amp; 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